by Bela Johnson | Jun 25, 2018 | Hawaii, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
If I were to sweep, it would never end; this precious earth has only begun to burn and swirl and blow away the flimsy trappings, human footprints laid down along shorelines expanding now beneath helicopter eyes, unable to peer further under Pele’s fiery skirts;...
by Bela Johnson | Jun 15, 2018 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
There’s a sound in the house, a resonant thrum in the house we reside in, the home we created, a throb, a buzz, a tone which, when absent, defines utter silence; the nothingness present during times when power lines cease their humming, now the only competition with...
by Bela Johnson | Jun 4, 2018 | Hawaii, nature, Uncategorized
Rising phoenix-like from the core of our Mother, she gathers shards of herself into long, sinewy fingers pointing straight or now diverging into strands of molten marvel, goddess breadth of hips dancing, swaying, undulating ribbons of pāhoehoe folding in and over the...
by Bela Johnson | May 22, 2018 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
Not unusual, this Tuesday. I hop on my bike and head downhill toward the vast indigo ocean with Maui shimmering across the channel, verdant rolling fields a parenthesis between me and the sea. I fondly regard the local dairy’s towering wooden silo alongside...
by Bela Johnson | May 7, 2018 | Hawaii, human interest, nature, science, Uncategorized
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2037251679821669&id=100006105707468 Posting another link for those of you who have trouble viewing the video posted above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEOWqSJ4Pys Aloha dear readers: The video and photo...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 30, 2018 | Hawaii, nature, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
When I moved to the Hawaiian islands over twenty-five years ago, I shouldered a bit of cynicism and not a little buried anger. Living in a land of volcanoes was illuminating. Time and again, my feet were held to madame Pele’s fire. Time and again, I tried to...
