by Bela Johnson | Jan 5, 2021 | culture, perspective, politics, Uncategorized
There is a divide growing in the US larger than the Grand Canyon.The Grand Canyon is a spectacular natural wonder, whereas events leading up to the scope of this divide have been anything but. Quite literally, Americans have been cleaved along lines of those for...
by Bela Johnson | May 16, 2017 | culture, philosophy, self awareness, Uncategorized
We all die. Relics left behind for others, once culturally defined, a slurry now of overcooked vegetables in the melting pot of what humanity has become; For better, we are more homogenous, conferring fewer reasons to hate that which is and ever was kindred. Knowing...
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 | Apr 15, 2014 | culture, musings, nature, people, poetry, Uncategorized
The old woman clasps worn cards wearily to grizzled chin, vertical lines set deep as piercing black eyes etched into an apple doll face. Sweeping swollen arthritic fingers over lined forehead, drumming now, listening to the hollow sound of bony digits echoing against...
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...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 27, 2012 | culture, happiness, personal, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
I strive to be happy. Honest, I do. But sometimes I have to ask myself completely and without guile, Is it happiness itself I seek? Or is it the process of striving that captivates me – the push/pull between satisfaction and all that fails to match expectations...
