by Bela Johnson | Jan 16, 2026 | equality, human interest, Uncategorized
We humans hold tightly to beliefs,as if they were vital organs.Perhaps they are. We need to feel safein an increasingly unsafe world. Fair enough. Fundamentalist religions understand this well—how firm boundaries,declared holy,can feel like shelter. How obediencecan...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 30, 2025 | equality, freedom, inspiration, truth, Uncategorized
Why can we not simply live these dayswithout concern for what new regimewill dictate archaic mandates,as if we had slipped back into the 19th century,when women bent under expectationsand had yet to rise in collective struggle—for civil rights, equal rights, the...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 7, 2022 | equality, forgiveness, freedom, people, perspective, Uncategorized
Stepping into that ladies parlor made me shiver,reminded me of a rich friend’s house, her mother’sshell pink bedroom with attached bath, gold gilded pinktufted velvet chair she sat on to apply considerable amountsof makeup and tease her platinum bleached...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 28, 2017 | community, equality, lifestyle, philosophy, Uncategorized
Here we are, 3000 miles in the middle of the sea; not even remotely trying to be part of the mainland culture most folks who were born in Hawaii simply call America. It is enough, this melange of beautiful people whose origins always make for good guessing games....
by Bela Johnson | Jun 26, 2015 | community, equality, marriage equality
There have been many reasons these past few years to feel deep remorse as an American; things that a government ‘by the People’ should never have enacted on The People’s behalf. I could write a treatise on these assaults to our humanity, but will...
