by Bela Johnson | Oct 22, 2025 | food, freedom, healing, lifestyle, Uncategorized
What heals one body may harm another.The raw becomes too cold for the weary stomach,the stillness too rigid for the restless heart. Even meditation can bruise the spiritif what we need is to walk, to breathe,to kneel in the garden’s forgiving dirt. Food is medicine,...
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 | Jun 28, 2023 | awakening, freedom, growing up, human interest, lifestyle, Uncategorized
We know the slate is wiped clean at birth,but I doubt any of us knows just how thoroughthe purge, and it has taken most of my lifetimeto discover who, exactly, my authentic selfmight be, I cannot blame earnest teachers,controlling parents, there is no one but myselfto...
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 | Apr 13, 2022 | compassion, death, freedom, human interest, lifestyle, Uncategorized
We are all moving on to the next level,just as he did after coming throughwalls, us sitting at our kitchen table,pleading eyes confused, conflicted; Nobody spoke of suicide in that place,yet there he was, and I had to askanother neighbor if she knewwhat had happened;...
by Bela Johnson | Jun 9, 2015 | freedom, lifestyle, mindfulness, Uncategorized
Heartbreaking, the agony of deciding finality independent of consent. My own third marriage proves sturdy, but who can say? We all take risks. What I can offer is this: we are always learning and growing if we examine, as you are doing, our own choices and...
