by Bela Johnson | Nov 4, 2025 | cosmos, earth witness, nature, regeneration
Daily writing promptInvent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.View all responses Since holiday’s etymological origin stems from holy day,shouldn’t every morning we wake to the miracle of life—on a planet able to sustain our...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 29, 2025 | earth witness, embodiment, feminine,, gardening, Uncategorized
And so long as you haven’t experiencedThis: to die and so to grow,You are only a troubled guestOn the dark earth.— Goethe What is our task here, on this living planet? We ask it again and again.We long to serve, to be ready,to meet the unknown challengesset...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 20, 2025 | earth witness, people, regeneration, relationships, Uncategorized
There are confusing encounters, leaving one gaspingfor breath, the mind grasping for understanding;such is the nature of life and death—the latter being more recent in my world of experience. I eschew addictions, just as they are soughtto resolve what seems...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 16, 2025 | awakening, earth witness, Observations, regeneration, Uncategorized
Late tonight my body longs for the balm of sleep,the oblivion of dreams—yet awareness flareslike a just-struck match; ideas rumble and roll.I am not beset by worry, but by the bright acheof knowing how brief it all is—this speck in eternitywe call life, the amazing...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 15, 2025 | earth witness, philosophy, poetry, regeneration, Uncategorized
More growth coming, and I breathe deep, knowing why I am here, why you are here, why we so rarely recognize the miracle; We are not in this togetherin the sense of waiting upon othersfor our own self realization; These are not times for preachers or spiritual...
