by Bela Johnson | Nov 5, 2025 | earth witness, healing, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptDo you need time?View all responses I’m not sure I need time —at least not as it’s commonly considered.It’s simply what we’re given, like it or not,for as long as we draw breath:a new sunrise, a fading sunset,and the spaces in...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 1, 2025 | healing, poetry, process, Uncategorized
Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live? If I Could Re-Live a Year At first, the question seems silly.Why would anyone want to go back, when life has already pressed us forward through so much change, so much learning, so many quiet awakenings? Still,...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 28, 2025 | healing, process, shadow, Uncategorized
Raised inside rooms of too-bright light and strict rules,I learned that obedience was the language of divine love—knees bent, eyes down, a hymn to belonging. In Sunday School, we sang of angels while clippingour own wings, polishing the gleaming floor with our...
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 | Oct 18, 2025 | healing, humor, process, self awareness
How to take a shirt whose pattern I love but whose size is one smaller than thatI have worn for decades now; swimmer’strapezius giving me a wide-set backmeant for moving great waves of water past,my body cruising, seal-like, through surfwhile my spirit...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 27, 2025 | healing, lifestyle, nature, sustainability, Uncategorized
I see a wide cerulean expanse of oceanunder the cyan light of endless sky;though all may not be as it seems – The ocean appears calm and serenefrom where I stand, miles distant,yet surely there are voids and tunnels,rocks and coral remnants of once-vital...
