by Bela Johnson | Apr 2, 2013 | food, Hawaii, lifestyle, personal, Uncategorized
Strange ritual, this gorging on holidays. Course after course – for we have paid dearly for them – slides down the hatch in habitual response to colors, textures, tastes. The floor is flagstone; the chairs in this grand old hotel are plastic, of all...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 19, 2013 | happiness, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
Swelling waters crash over concrete jetties, sweeping docks clean of debris: cigarette butts, bottle tops, Friday night remainders. Still, in we jump – glad of the sea and movement away from whatever it is binding us to despair and blinding us to...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 4, 2013 | lifestyle, nature, personal, poetry, random thoughts, Uncategorized
I cannot wear sequins. A closet full of skirts and dresses tried on over the years; wishful thinking. What I do, where I live does not lend itself to swoops of air between the legs; bluster and sparkle. No need for headlights. It feels like a...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 26, 2013 | animals, lifestyle, philosophy, science, Uncategorized
I wish more of us sought to understand what we fear, instead of seeking to eliminate the causes of our distress. I’ve lived long enough to know that if we remove our triggers, new ones will invariably appear. It’s like those little pop-up figures in a shooting...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 21, 2013 | lifestyle, musings, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
From time to time I glimpse, as sun through the clouds, the nature of reality. As it might be. Thoughts are habit, that’s all. Like opium, they are addictive. Should you doubt the similarity, try spending the night alone without them....
by Bela Johnson | Feb 19, 2013 | competition, lifestyle, musings, personal, philosophy, Uncategorized
Growing up in a large family, competition was fierce. I learned how to aspire; often succeeding, especially when it came to academia in which I excelled. And although I didn’t grow up having to mandatorily don a skirt or restrict myself to half-court basketball like...
