by Bela Johnson | Feb 28, 2012 | Hawaii, nature, Uncategorized
If I drown in the ocean, if I die in this way – if I slide low and deep, I’d feel lucky today. If I dive in the water; if I crash in that wave; if the sands pull me under, I’d feel happy to stay. Life would lack certain meaning (with respect due to You) –...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 31, 2012 | Hawaii, healing, nature, philosophy, psychology, Uncategorized
A former client once quipped that expectations are like premeditated resentments. I can’t help but notice what a recurring theme this is in my own life. When I was young and living in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains, the biggest treat for me was when...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 25, 2012 | animals, Hawaii, nature, Uncategorized
The day is breathless. Tiny green buds on the windward side of a stark Stemmadenia unfurl quaking, tender leaves. Dogs lounge in the morning sun while horses and cattle graze languorously in neighboring fields. Cardinals whistle and trill while doves bob in...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 5, 2012 | Hawaii, nature, psychology, Uncategorized
Wind in and of itself makes no sound. It passes like a wraith in weakness and in strength. What creates noise are the obstacles that impede its path: overhead cables vibrating and thrashing with an eerie whining whistle; grasses hissing and sighing as the backs...
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,...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 26, 2011 | Hawaii, inspiration, nature
Evening steals across the sky with the subtlety of dispersing silvery tails of jet liners; like ink seeping into a desk blotter. It is fall here in North Kohala, and our winter is fast approaching. Night falls quickly as if caught off guard, the sun dropping into the...
