by Bela Johnson | Mar 30, 2018 | Hawaii, nature, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
When I moved to the Hawaiian islands over twenty-five years ago, I shouldered a bit of cynicism and not a little buried anger. Living in a land of volcanoes was illuminating. Time and again, my feet were held to madame Pele’s fire. Time and again, I tried to...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 20, 2018 | philosophy, random thoughts, Uncategorized
Communication is composition, ideally orchestrated if fortuitous enough to grasp one another by our carefully chosen words; Yet too often in bright headlamps of passing thought trains, we stand transfixed, unable to move forward or back, confused and confounded,...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 20, 2018 | love, musings, nature, perspective, philosophy, Uncategorized
Drip, drip, drip, the rains come and drop from the ends of ti leaves scorched yellow by ceaseless sun even during this Hawaiian winter while the rest of the country lies deeply buried in drifts of snow or snarled in turbulence of another sort; Drip, drip, drip and I...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 13, 2018 | nature, perspective, philosophy, Uncategorized, words, writing
The strike of keys to paper replaced now by snapping buttons on white screens; still the thoughts stream onto glass which fractures in the light of reason; all the comely hues of morning, dawning of ideas as horizons, split into...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 6, 2018 | friendship, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
What is the lens through which we view another? What color and hue, are they sister or brother? Do we place them in boxes without really thinking of sorrows and pleasures, the history winking from under the furrows, aside from the layers the total and sum of the...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 24, 2018 | love, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
Passion peaks and wanes, conflagrations cannot burn forever, yet if tempered and fed, a gentle glow is maintained, steady heat, protracted afterglow; If we could always remember this moment now, just as we are, tensions resolved in baptismal sweetness, life would be a...
