by Bela Johnson | Nov 21, 2011 | healing, philosophy
I have never kept a diary, but if I did, it would be to its pages I would commit the seeming banality of the day-to-day, the little goings-on, meanderings of the mind – those projections, deductions, reflections. Yet one of the most engaging forms of prose I am...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 15, 2011 | culture, healing
My neighbor is leaving tomorrow for Vietnam and Cambodia, then he is headed for the continental expanse that is China. This is the same generous soul who has gifted me with two good sized pots of rare bamboo. The same one who flagged me down on our small street...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 10, 2011 | healing, philosophy, psychology
Long ago and far away I had a friend who was, and is likely still, a performer. She loves performing so much that she’s made it her life’s work. If all of us felt as passionate about our profession as she, life would be a proverbial tiptoe through the tulips. This...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 20, 2011 | healing, love, psychology
You can’t give what you don’t have. It seems obvious to her now, but it didn’t forty years ago. Forty years ago, she fell for a man who was emotionally and, at the time physically, unavailable. Young and a bit naïve, she was desperately and profoundly in love. The...
