by Bela Johnson | Sep 13, 2023 | climate change, lifestyle, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
The hot nights we loved, twisted in sweat and cotton sheets,all the time longing for what we have now, cool breezes,sleeping temperatures below 85 degrees, then just likethat, fall will jacknife into winter, and instead of agonizingin temperatures that seem to stretch...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 5, 2023 | happiness, home, lifestyle, musings, nature, Uncategorized
Winking at the gods with those luminous blue green eyes,the dragonfly sits perched on my knee, shoulder, head;and as I duck under for another cool dip, she is there,waiting, hovering in the golden bands of bright summersunlight while the loons’ tremolo bounces...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 5, 2023 | communication, musings, nature, people, Uncategorized
Pieces written about my life float through my mindonto paper, peppering the page with perceptions pastand present, others involved likely recalling disparatedetails known as fact to them, and this is the timbreand rhythm as we try and understand...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 2, 2023 | daily_prompt, musings, postaday, Uncategorized
If I Could If I could be someone else for a day,what a silly little thing to say; the onlything useful in doing this would beI could be you, and you could be me,eliminating language (as sad as that is),yet to feel behind words might providea slight fizz, as insights...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 16, 2023 | musings, perspective, philosophy, self awareness, truth, Uncategorized
The white hot truth is no truth at all,save the passionate conviction that a thingis real to one, and little can convincea person of its opposite, though mindsare opening all around me these days,lovely multicolored parachutes waftingdown out of the ethers like the...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 28, 2022 | inspiration, mindfulness, musings, nature, Uncategorized
Nothing is ever a mistake, not evenwhat we toss into the maw of a waitingdonation bin, our acquisitionsand castoffs equally important to usin their time; And aren’t we a part of nature, brightflowers blooming their prolific heads offout there in the garden, then...
