by Bela Johnson | Oct 25, 2016 | lifestyle, nature, philosophy, psychology, Uncategorized
There’s a trembling in the earth, the quaking every baby bird senses as it struggles to unfurl its tiny body clad only in a breath of dandelion fluff, winking at the brilliance of day, life on a new planet, waking into something it knows to its bones is temporary; And...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 18, 2016 | lifestyle, musings, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
I find no comfort in half-light or half-truths, cities where false neon glows pass for daytime neverending, unremembered history, ancient drumming of rain on clay tiles and cobbled stones, retaining naught but a fraction of huddled humanity, while farmers awakened in...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 27, 2016 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
Crystalline silhouettes contract and pucker, kissed now by sun like a lover rounding shards of earth where thundering hooves of waves seek ecstatic ground, flicking fingers of saltwater sucking themselves dry in flat palms of lava braced against shoreline above which...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 20, 2016 | Hawaii, musings, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
Wind and sea, earth and fire; sun scorches water, shriveling it to savory powder as it dries upon rocks bridging tidepools; Salt in the ocean floats bodies at its pleasure, pulls sand out to sea for months at a time and spits it back where and when it wants; Wind...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 13, 2016 | lifestyle, nature, philosophy, science, Uncategorized
We can only hold what we can bear. Silence brooks wisdom, and if one attends to the whooshing din of atoms, secrets of the universe unfurl themselves, invisible flags scaling stanchions of awareness, defining human drama and its opposite, quietude, in the...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 6, 2016 | Hawaii, inspiration, nature, Uncategorized
I: The Birds I wanted to know where birds go in a storm, how nature battens her dear ones down in times of necessary turmoil when she can longer suppress the urge to discharge and flush herself clean of burdens borne daily, clearing tangles of detritus from her...
