by Bela Johnson | Apr 14, 2015 | friends, lifestyle, people, philosophy, Uncategorized
Have you ever thought to yourself, if only this person would see my heart, if blame and fear were set aside, we might forge truer bonds? It is always surprising when another remains unwilling to own their part, especially when friends drop like dominoes, again and...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 31, 2015 | lifestyle, musings, philosophy, science, Uncategorized
Pieces of an intricate puzzle are how I assemble life, not pausing to consider position on the template nor noting how many fragments remain heaped on the fringes, awaiting destiny’s promptings. Days arrive on tradewinds blowing me this way and that, shuffling the mix...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 24, 2015 | lifestyle, musings, philosophy, Uncategorized
How can one decide best for another? I was born to embody my own desires. My life is right for me alone. It has not been easy, but does anyone dance through this earth walk who will not be transformed by it?
by Bela Johnson | Mar 10, 2015 | community, compassion, lifestyle
How can it be in this land of plenitude, our fellows spilling out now into city streets, smearing pristine glare of glossy retail windows with the crime of their insanity? I walk and talk with open heart, not from a place where vacant stares meet hollow eyes; hear his...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 3, 2015 | lifestyle, musings, nature, popular culture
We are so willing to click in and go for the ride. Neurons firing and off we jettison into yet another collective illusion while the god of Abraham, bless his heart, calls it good. It’s all good. The miracle of bodies in time and space. Damn...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 23, 2015 | community, lifestyle, nature, poetry, transformation, Uncategorized
I began leaving home in the womb, winter-weary parents packing up kids and dreams, fleeing frozen for fallacy ill conceived through jeweled blinders, backs turned stubbornly on a kinder fate. No Valley Girl at heart, I came to rely upon mountains and creatures too...
