by Bela Johnson | Mar 12, 2019 | healing, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
THE TEACHING Schooled to the rigors of religion, if I took nothing else away from those origins it was faith; faith that a child’s prayers would be answered by forces unseen, and I took root in that faith like fieldstone, anchoring my small body in cracks and...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 13, 2019 | consciousness, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
Waves lap at my feet as I stare down sunset, myself a fixed object on the shore, bringing to mind reclamation, our oceanic mother calling me back and through time, sloughing off my scales, crawling onto the sand to admire her from another angle; perhaps only this, in...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 29, 2019 | animals, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
I go down burrowing, a badger unearthing for the sake of it, a sort of mining known only to the creature and sometimes the human heart, the latter less willing to surrender its complexities; On the surface doves appear to assert territoriality, the movement stitched...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 15, 2019 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
This post is entitled appropriately as my ode to 2018. 2019 seems downright revved up, as we begin with the first dry weather we’ve had in some time. And the energy to clear up what was muddled most of last year! Aloha, All::: Rain streams now in sheets,...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 8, 2019 | growing up, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
I never wanted famous, though it was proffered more than once; did not want to grow up in public, recorded on the cortices of admirers, on film or stage, no; talent may, through its own merits, ease its way into hearts to pause or to remain; In the shadows or in the...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 18, 2018 | nature, perspective, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
Before I began gardening in earnest; before I allowed myself the luxury of flowers rather than the scratching of necessities, firewood and food; before my vision exploded into islands of umber and emerald with spikes of magenta and indigo flanked by tiny waxen buds, I...
