by Bela Johnson | Oct 16, 2012 | culture, healing, inspiration, philosophy, technology, Uncategorized
My generation of boomers was born to mothers who, for the first time in recorded history, found themselves in decision making positions independent of their men. Suddenly lives no longer revolved around how children dressed for school that morning, who picked Timmy up...
by Bela Johnson | Jun 26, 2012 | culture, happiness, love, psychology, Uncategorized
I usually post my own thoughts here on WordPress, but picked up this book today and felt compelled to share what jumped out at me. You are invited to share your feedback – I’d be curious to know what this piece brings up for you. Cheers! The Lover...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 10, 2012 | community, culture, food, happiness, philosophy, Uncategorized
We were never meant to be completely fulfilled; we were meant to taste it, to long for it, and to grow toward it. The secret to living life as it was meant to be is to befriend our yearning instead of avoiding it, to live into our longing rather than trying to resolve...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 6, 2012 | culture, Hawaii, healing, inspiration, nature, Uncategorized
And so it begins. Shafts of light steal through dawn’s dark mantle, pierced first and only by birdsong. Slate grey skies erupt overhead onto a landscape perpetually in need of their offering. Through stillness, the distant drone of a two-lane highway portends the...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 15, 2012 | culture, lifestyle, philosophy, Uncategorized
In the 1940’s, Thomas Wolf wrote a book called You Can’t Go Home Again, in which protagonist George Webber quips, You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 26, 2011 | compassion, culture, Hawaii, healing, inspiration, Uncategorized
Huli the bowl! and set myself free – by releasing these stones I can choose to be me. I committed this little ditty to paper shortly after returning home from a Solstice ceremony led by a man of mixed Hawaiian descent. In the interceding years since that event,...
