by Bela Johnson | Apr 19, 2023 | high desert, lifestyle, nature, New Mexico, perspective, Uncategorized
Here in the mountains night creatures roam, day has notyet stretched rays of sunlight over the land, birds are stilltucked tightly into tree branches, tiny beaks buried in fluffybreast down, eyes closed as they breathe in rhythmstoo subtle to notice, dreaming dreams...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 14, 2023 | awakening, dreaming, healing, inspiration, nature, Uncategorized
Reduced now to ashes, I rise from the fires of transformationagain and again, and it gets wearying sometimes, all this deathand resurrection, so many incarnations within one lifetime,and occasionally I struggle with perceptions of others,the young simply trying to...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 11, 2023 | awkening, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
I went back not in time, but in topographical memory,to a place where leaves swirl and tumble into crosshatchednetworks of red and gold and green, lying still as delayedspringtime in roadside piles, now in varying shadesof umber, sienna, ochre and dun, fashioning soil...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 24, 2023 | desert life, high desert, nature, Uncategorized, wildlife
Today I saw a mountain lion, absentwas my phone or camera, and I might nothave thought of those anyway, rapture beingthe single emotion that leapt in my heart; She was hunkered close to the ground,casting the dogs and me a backward glancewith a twitch of her long,...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 20, 2023 | consciousness, healing, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
Between insanity, foolishness and downrightcrazy talk there are interstices, touch pointsof connection; like the stars in the heavens,they pulse with possibility, and how to helpdetermine what might be key to a morebeautiful connection our brimming heartsknow is...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 1, 2023 | gardening, high desert, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
As I watched and wept, my beautiful roses,planted deep and well in this nutrient-deficient soil, desert dirt; raised bedscreated by the former owner, filled witha mixture of native turf and whatever he could find, and I added dozens of bags of topsoiltilled in by...
