by Bela Johnson | Mar 28, 2017 | community, equality, lifestyle, philosophy, Uncategorized
Here we are, 3000 miles in the middle of the sea; not even remotely trying to be part of the mainland culture most folks who were born in Hawaii simply call America. It is enough, this melange of beautiful people whose origins always make for good guessing games....
by Bela Johnson | Jun 26, 2015 | community, equality, marriage equality
There have been many reasons these past few years to feel deep remorse as an American; things that a government ‘by the People’ should never have enacted on The People’s behalf. I could write a treatise on these assaults to our humanity, but will...
by Bela Johnson | May 12, 2015 | community, lifestyle, musings, philosophy, Uncategorized
We live in a culture of individuality: what we aspire to, a filling ourselves up with ourselves. Ah, the miracle! We might well fear loneliness in quest for that unique seed we term Self. Still, something inside thrums, knows to its core we are not now, nor have we...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 10, 2015 | community, compassion, lifestyle
How can it be in this land of plenitude, our fellows spilling out now into city streets, smearing pristine glare of glossy retail windows with the crime of their insanity? I walk and talk with open heart, not from a place where vacant stares meet hollow eyes; hear his...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 23, 2015 | community, lifestyle, nature, poetry, transformation, Uncategorized
I began leaving home in the womb, winter-weary parents packing up kids and dreams, fleeing frozen for fallacy ill conceived through jeweled blinders, backs turned stubbornly on a kinder fate. No Valley Girl at heart, I came to rely upon mountains and creatures too...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 28, 2013 | community, culture, Uncategorized, writing
Blogging provides a virtual and sometimes therapeutic channel in which to pour one’s thoughts and feelings that, in turn, insinuate themselves into the collective like dye injected into a crystalline ocean. Slowly spreading, the new medium eventually becomes...
