by Bela Johnson | Jun 25, 2015 | nature, philosophy, poetry, self awareness, Uncategorized
Renewing my world happens in flashes of insight. If I gaze across twilight in dread of darkness impending, I negate the incubating promise of restoration with the breaking of morn; I shun my own body, fecund with potential percolating possibilities yet to be realized,...
by Bela Johnson | Jun 1, 2015 | inspiration, lifestyle, musings, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
She is an archivist of the spirit, cataloguer borne of those bred to map and dangle from family trees, having loosed the mantle others gathered up gladly. The records she tends, mental file cards smelling of musty library drawers marked in alphabetical sequence,...
by Bela Johnson | May 23, 2015 | lifestyle, musings, philosophy, Uncategorized
He cannot bear it, dull thud of shoes dropping onto worn planks well traveled by time, those changing tides, affronted ears plugged with cotton balls to silence the din. Wondering wryly to himself now do old people feign deafness, or is the world too much with them...
by Bela Johnson | May 12, 2015 | community, lifestyle, musings, philosophy, Uncategorized
We live in a culture of individuality: what we aspire to, a filling ourselves up with ourselves. Ah, the miracle! We might well fear loneliness in quest for that unique seed we term Self. Still, something inside thrums, knows to its core we are not now, nor have we...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 20, 2015 | compassion, inspiration, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
It’s facile to ponder fault in others whose treatment of us seems appalling. Then we glimpse suffering in desperate animal eyes, recognizing predatory illusion. All the lessons of the Masters fall deaf on ears that will not hear, fearful eyes refusing to see all the...
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...
