by Bela Johnson | Feb 25, 2020 | gardening, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
I had to look twice, glancing out the kitchen window as the flutter of a mynah bird’s jet black wings jogged my vision into memory, the giant frond of a Queen Emma lily flung carelessly by a kicking wind, bent not broken into a shape resembling the appendage of...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 29, 2020 | animals, growing up, nature, personal, perspective, Uncategorized
The ocean pulls up, pulls away, hisses, leaving tiny air holes in the sand; I am fourteen, in love with creation, full of life and dreaming possibilities; Still on the beach I lie, slim belly pressed down against earth’s beating heart, looking not at the tossing...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 22, 2020 | nature, perspective, spirituality, Uncategorized
Cracking through his crusty skin, the butterflies await therein; In trembling light, antennae perched in front, ahead, and primed to lurch; The quavered sense that life’s amiss somehow obscures the hours of bliss; the chores and drudge originate, perspective...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 12, 2019 | lifestyle, nature, perspective, philosophy, self awareness, Uncategorized
Before the brief but long breath of lifetimes was profound silence, and if sounds were apprehended, they were but whispers compared to the chaos most have come to accept as the new normal; Before memory, arrived humans and wild creatures and whooshing winds, lapping...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 4, 2019 | perspective, philosophy, psychology, self awareness, spirituality, Uncategorized
ETHERIC Activate, move! Directions barely registered in that middle place between worlds; life in the ethers more familiar, more desirable than this constant adjusting; bold when she should choose circumspection; equally withdrawn when action seems desirable,...
by Bela Johnson | May 29, 2019 | gardening, Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, perspective, photography, Uncategorized
Shower trees quiver blossoms of shell pink or flaxen yellow with ivory struck through, sucking up abundant rainwater, tips a brand new green in these late spring days; shooting ever upward, obscuring, as originally planned, any traces of power lines stretched between...
