by Bela Johnson | Jul 2, 2018 | country living, Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, photography, Uncategorized
And summer has arrived; just like that, torrential rains cease, a blazing sun streams down to the great relief of pineapples aching to convert starch to sugar, sweeten and lighten their load, prickly customers snapped free from bending stalks; Giant papayas ripen...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 14, 2017 | love, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
Today I took a notion to look up love in the thesaurus; to investigate, inquire, elucidate, and perhaps pontificate on the kinds and qualities and misappropriations and justifications for using this word for a feeling. After all, it’s such a very big word. It’s so...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 6, 2015 | musings, nature, photography, Uncategorized
Nature does this, splendiferously exhibiting herself in out of the way places, just because. There is no hidden agenda. Had my feet traveled another path at that moment – were I not attuned to nuance – I might have missed it. Would it matter to the...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 13, 2012 | inspiration, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
As a child in less than ideal circumstances, life was filled with dread and despair. Yet I always felt I had an invisible confidant in a faceless Creator – a sort of tabula rasa onto whom I could project all my love and hate; all the repressed passions I could...
