by Bela Johnson | Feb 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
I want to introduce all writers in my WordPress community to my former Vermont College alumnus who writes brilliantly about, well, Writing! If you Follow her blog, I am certain you will benefit from her expertise as an editor and writer. Have a lovely weekend, all!...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 16, 2016 | culture, lifestyle, philosophy, popular culture, spirituality, Uncategorized
It’s a tricky thing, ask for one thing, get another, just what is needed. Understood. Shake hands with fate, agree to the veiling not an ending, rather the beginnings of a new life, tabula rasa. Oh, the beauty! Tastes and smells and five, maybe six senses all...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 1, 2016 | inspiration, nature, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
Circling myself now like an osprey I once observed fishing, sitting by the Union River on a chill fall day, eyes fastened upon icy grey currents, swirling and eddying under the arched bones of trees; who could guess what she saw and how, yet surely as my beating...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 26, 2016 | lifestyle, philosophy, Uncategorized
Everything undulates slightly in the twilit hours, rippling gently as a mirage. What seems solid during daylight becomes other by nightfall, as things left unresolved return to haunt the living. Thus we dwell upon passing thoughts, full-blown as stories once told to...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 19, 2016 | love, people, personal, self awareness, Uncategorized
who seems too pious for the picking and more like Vermeer’s Girl, something suggested only as if she knows she’s goddess, while the other is bent toward God; I am not one of those who harbors yearning for the unresponsive, though I understand the predilection. Still,...