by Bela Johnson | Jan 8, 2026 | belonging, compassion, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptWhat are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?View all responses Because thoughts become things.Intention is essential.— Laureli Ivanoff At seventy-two, my thoughts on living a very long lifeare necessarily differentthan they...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 4, 2026 | acceptance, authenticity, compassion, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptWhat is the greatest gift someone could give you?View all responses The greatest gift possible arrives by no other meansthan my own inner honoring to get to the bottom,as much as I am able, of my own inner swamp,so that I might arrive, at long...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 27, 2025 | compassion, relationships, truth revealed, Uncategorized
We all need at least one good friend—someone who sees us as we are,receives usjust as we are. I don’t need fixing or coddling,or borrowed stories meant to prop me up—lines lifted from some forgettable show.What I need mostis a witness, preferably silent:someone who...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 24, 2025 | compassion, earth witness, Uncategorized
I carry the key that no one gave me.It was forged from breath,from every silence I have ever survived—my own necessary stifling of voice,and the silence of othersunable or unwillingto share their truth. The lock was never outside.It lived in my ribs—those pale bars of...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 8, 2025 | animals, compassion, nature, Observations, relationships, Uncategorized
I could write about the tiny Arabian horse, her pale matted coat grown to maximum for the winter, nature knowing what her children need toward the end of life – once luster and beauty as only youth can confer – later, stripped back to essentials, hip bones...
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...
