by Bela Johnson | Jun 12, 2018 | healing, lifestyle, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
It can be frightening to observe the body breaking down while nothing Western medicine offers seems to help. If this is happening, perhaps what you are experiencing is much deeper than what can be detected on the surface. If possible, consider emergence rather...
by Bela Johnson | May 29, 2018 | country living, lifestyle, Maine, nature, Uncategorized
The cabin was bought fully furnished from an elderly couple who left behind what would now be considered valuable antiques. Two small bedrooms replete with horsehair beds, a combination Glenwood wood/kerosene kitchen stove; round golden oak drop-leaf table poised...
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 | Apr 24, 2018 | dogs, lifestyle, nature, personal, Uncategorized
Why did we have to spot her? By all accounts the gods know we have done our best, taking on one too many before, now knowing our limits and that of our yard and sanity; Yet there she was, and we felt before seeing, noticed slight movement and heard a low warning...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 26, 2018 | lifestyle, mindfulness, nature, perspective, popular culture, Uncategorized
I once knew a woman who kept her world on the shortest leash imaginable. This overstuffed orb consisted of all she felt she could control and nothing she could not. It must have been mind bending trying to keep all the plates spinning in the air, for if one crashed to...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 5, 2017 | dogs, Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
As if there could be too much rain in a water-parched world we head out, two spotted canines jostling for space in the Scion’s passenger seat chasing bright, leaving gathering darkness behind; Off the highway we turn downhill toward a squall-rimmed sea, heavy mist...
