by Bela Johnson | May 7, 2018 | Hawaii, human interest, nature, science, Uncategorized
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2037251679821669&id=100006105707468 Posting another link for those of you who have trouble viewing the video posted above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEOWqSJ4Pys Aloha dear readers: The video and photo...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 24, 2018 | dogs, lifestyle, nature, personal, Uncategorized
Why did we have to spot her? By all accounts the gods know we have done our best, taking on one too many before, now knowing our limits and that of our yard and sanity; Yet there she was, and we felt before seeing, noticed slight movement and heard a low warning...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 11, 2018 | compassion, family, nature, Uncategorized
Just get over it, she says, words spewing like hot lava from icy lips; intention beside the point and yet how could I have understood back then? She would remain forever mute on the origins of that rage and I had the rest of my life yet to figure it out; Fifty-five...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 30, 2018 | Hawaii, nature, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
When I moved to the Hawaiian islands over twenty-five years ago, I shouldered a bit of cynicism and not a little buried anger. Living in a land of volcanoes was illuminating. Time and again, my feet were held to madame Pele’s fire. Time and again, I tried to...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 26, 2018 | lifestyle, mindfulness, nature, perspective, popular culture, Uncategorized
I once knew a woman who kept her world on the shortest leash imaginable. This overstuffed orb consisted of all she felt she could control and nothing she could not. It must have been mind bending trying to keep all the plates spinning in the air, for if one crashed to...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 27, 2018 | nature, perspective, poetry, Uncategorized, writing
The grit of metaphor grinds slowly, chafing the brain until words emerge, runaway horses on the plains of pages, hooves pounding sentiments, grafting meaning onto senselessness resulting, it is hoped, in broadening context for eyes to behold, reversing imprints from...
