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 3, 2015 | compassion, musings, patience, philosophy, Uncategorized
If I knew I would die on a Thursday, would I be as anxious to get to Friday? Waiting is something I’ve done a great deal of in this life. It has taught me both vigilance as well as patience. Waiting has been my teacher in nonattachment. As a kid, it was so hard...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 9, 2014 | compassion, family, inspiration, lifestyle, Uncategorized
My mother didn’t touch me, but you can’t give what you didn’t get. ~ Maria Shriver Why has it taken me most of my life to understand parents as fallible human beings rather than the perfect archetypal models my Inner Child yearns for? Don’t I already understand that a...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 11, 2014 | compassion, inspiration, personal, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
The spiritual center of the universe abides within me, first person witness to miracles amidst the mundane. Whose legs better equipped to walk the talk synaptically steered from head to lips? Only I possess power to halt trains of thought before, derailed, they...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 4, 2013 | compassion, happiness, inspiration, personal, philosophy, Uncategorized
How long can one exist on just a story? I think some people live out the entirety of their days in the thrall of fabrication. And many don’t realize it until it is too late. I remember My Story. It began in the distant past, and I coughed it up and out like a...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 13, 2013 | compassion, happiness, inspiration, love, Uncategorized
I haven’t written a rhyming poem since I was a child! Sitting on my back lanai watching a painted gecko dipping into my spent teacup on a blissful, sunny Hawaiian winter day, I thought, ‘Why not have some fun?’ And so I offer up this little ditty....
