by Bela Johnson | Aug 30, 2016 | healing, inspiration, nature, philosophy, self awareness, Uncategorized
My dark eyes beheld you in that small sliver of moon light touching bare shoulders, streaming down from the stratosphere in a star-studded waterfall, knew from that moment we had been caressed by the hand of grace, a force supernal, bestowal of knowledge everlasting...
by Bela Johnson | May 4, 2016 | friends, healing, nature, personal, philosophy, Uncategorized
You’ve got to get it out, I said, out where the poison can drain harmlessly onto thirsty ground, where the pain cannot solidify into suffering, send it back to its source purified, clarified, transformed; Asphyxiated, a soul cannot draw in-spiration, we must unknot...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 13, 2015 | healing, philosophy, psychology, Uncategorized
Anger, like a burning bush, Holds prophecy. Yet in order to hear it, The volatile mind must be stilled.
by Bela Johnson | Jan 27, 2015 | family, healing, inspiration, personal, philosophy, Uncategorized
How could a spirit prepare to come into the world fully formed and armored, Athena sprung from the head of Zeus? How to conceive the weight of carapace needed to ward off powers of intoxication foisted by the damaged, visited upon progeny? These are not pretty...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 18, 2013 | healing, inspiration, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
We contain it in consciousness; Remember, so we do not forget, and get on with our lives or risk drowning in despair. Each day pregnant with unknowing, we risk all by walking out the door; mingling with the masses or digging in the soil. Even there, shards of...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 16, 2013 | competition, healing, home, lifestyle, Uncategorized
There is nothing I can say that could possibly convey my feelings of sadness and horror at what happened at the Boston Marathon yesterday. The complexity of emotions, interplaying with thoughts almost too onerous to bear, needs to be worked out first, somehow. It is...