by Bela Johnson | Oct 20, 2025 | earth witness, people, regeneration, relationships, Uncategorized
There are confusing encounters, leaving one gaspingfor breath, the mind grasping for understanding;such is the nature of life and death—the latter being more recent in my world of experience. I eschew addictions, just as they are soughtto resolve what seems...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 16, 2024 | climate change, growing up, people, perspective, Uncategorized
Outraged at articles portraying stark realities of Venezuelanimmigrants among others, desperate to depart the dearestcountries of their birth, as our ancestors did, onceupon a not too distant time; Freedom is what we all long for, not the liberties seizedby the...
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 | Nov 7, 2022 | equality, forgiveness, freedom, people, perspective, Uncategorized
Stepping into that ladies parlor made me shiver,reminded me of a rich friend’s house, her mother’sshell pink bedroom with attached bath, gold gilded pinktufted velvet chair she sat on to apply considerable amountsof makeup and tease her platinum bleached...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 20, 2020 | love, musings, people, Uncategorized
The dance we do, two partners holding a thin sheet of paper between them, no hands, just bodies aware of that small bit of substance, mute as snow, drifting not crashing into the weight of it; The dance we do locks eyes and hearts as one small thing, defining us,...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 28, 2017 | friends, nature, people, Uncategorized
She’s been dead a couple of years, my soul mate. Lots of people’s soul mate. That was her gift. She belonged to everybody and nobody at all. She was very much her own woman or the Goddess’ woman or at least a powerful woman; no less nor more than I, myself; but still....
