by Bela Johnson | Mar 8, 2012 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
Different, these seasonal shifts here in Hawaii. It has been the coldest winter that we have experienced in nearly a decade of living on the islands. Yet unbelievably to most mainlanders, spring is here. Birds are mating, horses are shedding and the wind’s...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 21, 2012 | lifestyle, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
Sometimes I find myself wrapped in envy for those who seem to possess a sort of natural foundation to their lives. Not the ones with the two-point-five children and a house in the suburbs, no. That holds no allure for me whatsoever. It’s more a kind of self possession...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 15, 2012 | culture, lifestyle, philosophy, Uncategorized
In the 1940’s, Thomas Wolf wrote a book called You Can’t Go Home Again, in which protagonist George Webber quips, You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame...
