by Bela Johnson | Apr 8, 2022 | forgiveness, healing, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
The heart is a lonely hunter, soaringhigh above, taking the long view,eyes ever sharp, focused on the objectsof its affection, and yet in flying free,never asks another to suffer bonds;Still, heart without head can bean isolated experience; some of us,you know, have...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 28, 2022 | inspiration, nature, perspective, spirituality, Uncategorized
Golden showers stream downin dappled luminescence,crescent slivers of fragranteucalyptus leavesand she sits, no distractionsave the gurgle of a coppery-bottomed meandering brook,sparkling and nosing its waythrough giant bouldersrolled into place longbefore flows were...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 8, 2022 | community, growing up, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
I always had dirt between my toes, beginning when I was old enough to toddle, and my parents did not care, having come out west from Chicago, land of the freezing, and I do not remember any scolding for it, surely I would if it existed, walked on blistering...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 12, 2022 | country living, lifestyle, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
The music of the universe greets me daily,voices on the wind, crackling throughheavily laden boughs of pine trees,chattering black and blue birds arrivingin massive flocks every morning to the feeder,ravens and magpies keeping their distance,waiting on fence posts out...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 5, 2022 | growing up, human interest, nature, personal, perspective, Uncategorized
Stay in the distance, watch the light,it is all you need; It is all I ever craved,this meeting with light imbued forms,spirit beings that visited me when young,floating up the canyon, me standingsmall, eagerly awaiting that reunion; The Church would have called...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 27, 2021 | human interest, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
When I gaze out over the fieldand spot a herd of elk, whichupon closer inspectionis really only distantsagebrush; when I, in a flashlasting no longer than amillisecond, see my own bodyas a juniper tree, I no longerquestion it; We are all made of the sameelements...
