by Bela Johnson | Sep 29, 2025 | community, compassion, food, gardening, sustainability, Uncategorized
Today it was from shelling macadamia nuts,given to us by a friend with a tree—boxfulls of them.No store-bought nutcracker will do;you must buy a cottage-industry devicecosting over a hundred dollars,and crack them one at a time. First remove the husk(commercial...
by Bela Johnson | Jun 22, 2023 | climate change, community, creativity, philosophy, sustainability, Uncategorized
Hundreds of times a day, epiphanies arise and I am open to them,whether in the garden or walking the dogs, and I would call these momentsinformation leaks from the Universe, as if the sky had tiny holes and bitsof drift were floating down like dandelion fluff or the...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 3, 2023 | awkening, community, Gaia, inspiration, Uncategorized
Watch as you stomp out the flames of a smoldering fire,this is not the end, but a fresh beginning, time for a newblaze to rise up that is more authentically yourself;the world is changing and we are its agents of change,let the waves that carry doubts and fears of...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 10, 2023 | animals, community, compassion, culture, lifestyle, Uncategorized
Supply and demand might be the lawof consumerism which has propped upa dubious economy for decades,but when it comes to believing it isthe only way through the veils of fearand lack hanging over too manythese days, perhaps we ought to consider; Maybe it is time to...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 5, 2022 | climate change, community, gardening, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
These slate skies are familiar, in a strangeillogical way; here, there are mountains,no sea in sight, and though mists appearlike fog, it is high desert with rivers runningthrough forested landscapes, their watersunreliable as winter ocean waves in Hawaiior storms...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 15, 2022 | community, healing, inspiration, perspective, spirituality, Uncategorized
I realize what it is, this gift I am given, it is enough, the wisdom of the word, when for others it is the peace of prayer; where to sit in meditation with this restless energy seems futile, not indigenous to the personality, and so I walk, cycle,...
