by Bela Johnson | Nov 1, 2016 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
Out of silence arrive conditions, long-lost children of the aching heart of creation, rolling over the dark and wide waters, gathering momentum, building crescendos, thunderheads threatening vistas swelling succulent with potential, conclusions suspended in the wings...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 25, 2016 | lifestyle, nature, philosophy, psychology, Uncategorized
There’s a trembling in the earth, the quaking every baby bird senses as it struggles to unfurl its tiny body clad only in a breath of dandelion fluff, winking at the brilliance of day, life on a new planet, waking into something it knows to its bones is temporary; And...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 18, 2016 | lifestyle, musings, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
I find no comfort in half-light or half-truths, cities where false neon glows pass for daytime neverending, unremembered history, ancient drumming of rain on clay tiles and cobbled stones, retaining naught but a fraction of huddled humanity, while farmers awakened in...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 4, 2016 | family, food, lifestyle, musings, Uncategorized
Bread by hand is baked in oven, tapped out gently, further cooling, placed in storage, bagged and ready, then is toasted days and after, to a crisp and even browning; Edges blackened, flash of silver knife is peeling curls of butter loose from glass jar, lying gently...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 27, 2016 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
Crystalline silhouettes contract and pucker, kissed now by sun like a lover rounding shards of earth where thundering hooves of waves seek ecstatic ground, flicking fingers of saltwater sucking themselves dry in flat palms of lava braced against shoreline above which...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 13, 2016 | lifestyle, nature, philosophy, science, Uncategorized
We can only hold what we can bear. Silence brooks wisdom, and if one attends to the whooshing din of atoms, secrets of the universe unfurl themselves, invisible flags scaling stanchions of awareness, defining human drama and its opposite, quietude, in the...
