by Bela Johnson | Jan 5, 2022 | growing up, human interest, nature, personal, perspective, Uncategorized
Stay in the distance, watch the light,it is all you need; It is all I ever craved,this meeting with light imbued forms,spirit beings that visited me when young,floating up the canyon, me standingsmall, eagerly awaiting that reunion; The Church would have called...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 17, 2020 | growing up, healing, Uncategorized
Going back into my journals for the first time in years, I discover it’s interesting to note how clearly I perceive things now, compared to 15 years ago. For all those sheltering in isolation with others they are not quite used to being with 24/7, perhaps these...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 29, 2020 | animals, growing up, nature, personal, perspective, Uncategorized
The ocean pulls up, pulls away, hisses, leaving tiny air holes in the sand; I am fourteen, in love with creation, full of life and dreaming possibilities; Still on the beach I lie, slim belly pressed down against earth’s beating heart, looking not at the tossing...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 8, 2019 | growing up, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
I never wanted famous, though it was proffered more than once; did not want to grow up in public, recorded on the cortices of admirers, on film or stage, no; talent may, through its own merits, ease its way into hearts to pause or to remain; In the shadows or in the...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 6, 2018 | growing up, personal, popular culture, Uncategorized
Songs possess the power to take me back in time, drop the needle onto spinning vinyl, crackle and pop of a generation; Subjective as memory can be, the body does not lie and it is this visceral recall a tune nudges into being, cruising in that little red Rambler,...
