by Bela Johnson | Jun 5, 2019 | art, creativity, lifestyle, Uncategorized
He’s out in the shop again, the fine clean scent of western cedar wafting through my office window, drawing me out to see what perfect hands are crafting now from raw; The straight-grained lines of red, variegated with a neutral light, white as a crosscut wafer...
by Bela Johnson | May 29, 2019 | gardening, Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, perspective, photography, Uncategorized
Shower trees quiver blossoms of shell pink or flaxen yellow with ivory struck through, sucking up abundant rainwater, tips a brand new green in these late spring days; shooting ever upward, obscuring, as originally planned, any traces of power lines stretched between...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 4, 2019 | gardening, Hawaii, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
There is green, and then there is the delicate curled chartreuse ribs of a fern frond as sunlight trips fantastic through the rhythm and hum of a late afternoon, busiest time of day for folding in fragments of lost time in preparation for the long shadows of impending...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 12, 2019 | healing, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
THE TEACHING Schooled to the rigors of religion, if I took nothing else away from those origins it was faith; faith that a child’s prayers would be answered by forces unseen, and I took root in that faith like fieldstone, anchoring my small body in cracks and...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 5, 2019 | country living, Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
Shards of light splinter azure skies piercing grey and white veils hung over days we have grown accustomed to, days drowned in deluges of drenching rain once sent to nourish, now stripping shrubs and flowers of nutrients washed deep asunder; One tree standing...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 15, 2019 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
This post is entitled appropriately as my ode to 2018. 2019 seems downright revved up, as we begin with the first dry weather we’ve had in some time. And the energy to clear up what was muddled most of last year! Aloha, All::: Rain streams now in sheets,...
