by Bela Johnson | Jan 12, 2023 | consciousness, family, growing up, human interest, perspective, Uncategorized
I could tell you a version of my lifethat would be intriguing, but would it betrue? In just under seven decades,memories are viewed througha prismatic lens of dazzling colorsor in black and white depending,and I think it has perhaps alwaysbeen thus; To retrieve fodder...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 28, 2022 | desert life, lifestyle, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
These high desert roads make no sense,twisting and turning and causing countlessfatalities here in the mountains and table landsof northern New Mexico; Old cow paths now make up the crazycriss-cross roads in Boston, while whatused to be wagon tracks and Kit...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 19, 2022 | lifestyle, Maine, nature, perspective, Uncategorized, wildlife
Somewhere there are sheets of blue icestitching up the last of the open water,but I am not there, only memory servesto dish up that young woman in hernew figure skates, striking outover the frozen pond, what those livingin worlds of water call a small lake,and Boom!...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 9, 2022 | dogs, friendship, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
I could write about the tiny Arabian horse,her pale matted coat grown to maximumfor the winter, nature knowing what her childrenneed toward the end of life, once lusterand beauty as only youth can confer; later,stripped back to essentials, hip bones protrudingover...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 23, 2022 | lifestyle, nature, perspective, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
Fresh blooms of cirrus in muted hues of silverpunctuate the bluest sky imaginable, thougheven northern New Mexico hazes over from timeto time these days, unlike thirty years agowhen we first touched earth in these northby southwestern climes; Cerulean heavens magnify...
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...
