by Bela Johnson | Sep 13, 2023 | climate change, lifestyle, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
The hot nights we loved, twisted in sweat and cotton sheets,all the time longing for what we have now, cool breezes,sleeping temperatures below 85 degrees, then just likethat, fall will jacknife into winter, and instead of agonizingin temperatures that seem to stretch...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 5, 2023 | happiness, home, lifestyle, musings, nature, Uncategorized
Winking at the gods with those luminous blue green eyes,the dragonfly sits perched on my knee, shoulder, head;and as I duck under for another cool dip, she is there,waiting, hovering in the golden bands of bright summersunlight while the loons’ tremolo bounces...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 14, 2023 | earthfirst, Gaia, nature, perspective, photography, rivers, Uncategorized
Express everything just like Mother Nature, she doesnot hold back! Her beauty lies everywhere, if webut observe outside the concrete and steel jungleshumans have built to house their billions; though somecities take the initiative to preserve islands of greenhere and...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 5, 2023 | communication, musings, nature, people, Uncategorized
Pieces written about my life float through my mindonto paper, peppering the page with perceptions pastand present, others involved likely recalling disparatedetails known as fact to them, and this is the timbreand rhythm as we try and understand...
by Bela Johnson | Jun 6, 2023 | gardening, lifestyle, nature, perspective, philosophy, Uncategorized
As stars wink conspiratorially, I wonder once againwhat my purpose is in this realm if not to love and beloved, which we are and always will be by the very factthat we draw breath, and yet those I have loved the mostare on their own trajectories, nothing on earth is...
by Bela Johnson | May 7, 2023 | desert life, lifestyle, nature, rivers, Uncategorized
Adrift in the flow of it all, I barely knowwhen night turns her face to the sunthese days, so many springtime pursuits,and there are streams that beckon, flowingwildly as long as snowmelt from higheraltitudes drives water down the BorrachaCanyon into the settlement of...
