by Bela Johnson | Oct 14, 2014 | lifestyle, nature, personal
Alexandria was a strikingly beautiful Single Comb Brown Leghorn; a character who conveyed her somewhat colossal name when she was less than a month old. With extraordinary coloring and a large floppy bright red comb and considerable wattles, she matured earlier than...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 7, 2014 | lifestyle, nature, peace, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
There is quiet in the spaces between a living world formulated in fractals, lurking narrowly beyond human perception on the fringes of the monkey mind. Society screams for attention, babies howl fitfully while words swirl around in grownup heads without prejudice;...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 26, 2014 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, people, Uncategorized
Laughter alchemizing leaden to light, a child’s eyes lit up from inside a man not yet shrouded in decorum. Search for the Buddha all you will while life continues in ordinaries; teachers everywhere from leaf mold to lovers. Only the mind waxing preferential, maroon...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 19, 2014 | lifestyle, nature, philosophy, poetry, random thoughts, Uncategorized
Why be conflicted with death? It’s no new trend, fluorescent Nikes in the wake of black and white. This is not a game of thrones over which we could prevail; no defeat-able foe, steroidal match of will or wits. United in helplessness if nothing else, our humanity...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 3, 2014 | musings, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
I’m accustomed to gazing at stars beyond stars soaring like dragons across the night sky. Wrapped in fleece, I steal away, bare feet padding across dew-soaked grasses, rolling onto my backside, bathing in moonlight. Like a faerie dipping into the heart of a flower to...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 17, 2014 | inspiration, nature, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
The voices speak in silence, drowned not upon the wind; deep inside lurks a stillness, point of light in a dark crystalline sky. Are they drawn from imagination’s well, unconfused by chaotic din? Does it matter where wisdom is garnered like sheaves of grain in an...
