by Bela Johnson | Nov 24, 2025 | earth witness, nature, Uncategorized
We go down to the ocean’s edge each evening,and sometimes I am so tired my inner filters slip,and I can see beneath the waves.I don’t mean this metaphorically.I mean I can quite literally see—the mounding lava rocks, the mountains of structures,cliffs rising just...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 23, 2025 | earth witness, nature, stewardship, Uncategorized
Some days I look aroundat this exquisitely unique planet—this shimmering blue bead suspended inwhat so many dismiss as “outer space,”as if the cosmos were nothingness—and I wonder how it came to be overrunby control freaks bent on damagingeveryone (fellow humans,...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 21, 2025 | Hawaii, healing, nature, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptBeach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why?View all responses Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer?The question lands lightly, but the answer feels impossible. How does one choose between wonders?When I think of “preference,” what rises...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 4, 2025 | cosmos, earth witness, nature, regeneration
Daily writing promptInvent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.View all responses Since holiday’s etymological origin stems from holy day,shouldn’t every morning we wake to the miracle of life—on a planet able to sustain our...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 13, 2025 | nature, philosophy, regeneration, Uncategorized
This morning the wind carriesa music older than memory,older than the borders drawnto divide what was oncesimply Earth, breathing; I walk the garden in silence,feet on too-dry soil, and I pay tributeto the ones who have always knownhow to listen—to rain as ally,to...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 12, 2025 | nature, Observations, regeneration, Uncategorized
The land still listens, though we do not answer.We have learned to speak to the wrong gods—technology, televised evangelists, telecommunication—forgetting the source to which we owe our lives. Our flesh remembers dolphin and tree,remembers the cliffs that yawn above...
