by Bela Johnson | Jun 21, 2016 | nature, people, philosophy, Uncategorized
What can be grasped in the depth of one’s gaze peering mysteriously through curtains of illusion, how to ever truly comprehend; I sit gazing at that image now, the one of you and me on the water, snow-crested Mauna Kea backdrop, you in your element and me in...
by Bela Johnson | May 17, 2016 | musings, people, philosophy, psychology, Uncategorized
All we know of another may be only what our illusions support; if we want a savior, they become that in our minds, even our cells; if we need a lover, a mother, a brother, best friend, they become that as well, until, exhausted from the weight of the world’s...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 19, 2016 | love, people, personal, self awareness, Uncategorized
who seems too pious for the picking and more like Vermeer’s Girl, something suggested only as if she knows she’s goddess, while the other is bent toward God; I am not one of those who harbors yearning for the unresponsive, though I understand the predilection. Still,...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 15, 2015 | love, people, Uncategorized
Desirous of returning, perhaps, furtive glances at the young couple, hands never far from one another, stroking gently and they know, these manatee women, how it changes, that touch, first a small betrayal, feelings far out of proportion to events peculiar to youth...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 14, 2015 | friends, lifestyle, people, philosophy, Uncategorized
Have you ever thought to yourself, if only this person would see my heart, if blame and fear were set aside, we might forge truer bonds? It is always surprising when another remains unwilling to own their part, especially when friends drop like dominoes, again and...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 28, 2014 | musings, people, Uncategorized
The weeds in the road mounded, rambling over the cracked pavement strewn with bits of roadside flotsam and into the unkempt cemetery plot of Orange Mann. Nobody planned it really, things just unravel as they will, if one is not attentive. The graves had been there...
