by Bela Johnson | Apr 9, 2013 | healing, inspiration, musings, personal, poetry, Uncategorized
There are times when the veil is drawn. Days go missing, while retreat seems the only option – Time away from the world to heal; to gather fragments and splinters back to a body weakened with pain and strange imaginings. Many eschew the need...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 12, 2013 | happiness, healing, inspiration, personal, Uncategorized
It has been predicted: this is My Lucky Year. A once-in-a-lifetime return of the Water Snake, which blessed the annum of my birth. If I make it to 120 years of age, I’ll have another, but it’s not likely to happen. So of course I wait for money, good fortune,...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 31, 2013 | creativity, healing, love, personal, poetry, Uncategorized
Tension held between two during moments which flash like lightning in the stillness of black sky – Crack! The thread unravels – yet it is not that easy. Minds parry, synapses winking clues never fully revealed but hinted at broadly...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 21, 2012 | compassion, healing, personal, philosophy, random thoughts, Uncategorized
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going – No feeling is final. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke I find it harder and harder to be critical and sarcastic these days. Tongue in cheek, I used to label this aspect of personality my inner cynic, but I knew...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 5, 2012 | healing, love, poetry, Uncategorized
Passion splits skin like an overripe melon straining its boundaries – Daring to go beyond convention, what’s safe. Comfort assumes new meaning, reaches deeper – until again, it stretches. And what once exhausted now sets the tone for beginning anew....
by Bela Johnson | Dec 4, 2012 | compassion, healing, peace, personal, poetry, Uncategorized
Sometimes we give all that we can, and it’s not enough. Will never be, unto death. Other times (and this may be a mistake) We do not. Wounded pride, arrogance, hurt, sensitivity; anger, fear, resentment keep us from it. We cannot give what we do not...
