by Bela Johnson | Dec 4, 2023 | consciousness, lifestyle, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
The shimmering of a rising dawn spreads outand over the fields in this snowy mountain valley,and as the light of day emerges anew, I step downand out of bed, finding my feet; there’s a flightof stairs I must descend, and to remainin that foggy post-dream world...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 24, 2023 | Hawaii, high desert, lifestyle, musings, perspective, Uncategorized
We’ve been flung out over water like skipping stones,not on a lake or pond, but the long, wide, never endingturquoise blue ocean of the Pacific, soaring in a metaltube while everything that followed us arrived by bargeas these things do, back and forth to the...
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 | 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 | 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 | Apr 26, 2023 | human interest, personal, perspective, psychology, suicide, Uncategorized
Maybe what he had inside was genius,little freckled boy face, eyes looking outat a world that was senseless at times,the hero father filled with his own demons,no time to self regulate nor a modelto follow, as all boys need, as we all do,and anger, fear and...
