by Bela Johnson | May 7, 2018 | Hawaii, human interest, nature, science, Uncategorized
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2037251679821669&id=100006105707468 Posting another link for those of you who have trouble viewing the video posted above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEOWqSJ4Pys Aloha dear readers: The video and photo...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 13, 2016 | lifestyle, nature, philosophy, science, Uncategorized
We can only hold what we can bear. Silence brooks wisdom, and if one attends to the whooshing din of atoms, secrets of the universe unfurl themselves, invisible flags scaling stanchions of awareness, defining human drama and its opposite, quietude, in the...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 22, 2015 | nature, philosophy, science, self awareness, Uncategorized
What is this voluminous vibration jarring me from deep slumber; scratch the veneer and raw terror is unleashed unnameable, reminding me of self imposed limitations in a universe hardly vast enough to contain what is termed consciousness, Is there a plan, save for...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 31, 2015 | lifestyle, musings, philosophy, science, Uncategorized
Pieces of an intricate puzzle are how I assemble life, not pausing to consider position on the template nor noting how many fragments remain heaped on the fringes, awaiting destiny’s promptings. Days arrive on tradewinds blowing me this way and that, shuffling the mix...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 9, 2013 | personal, philosophy, science, Uncategorized
Who would have thought that looking up one’s age as a number on the periodic table of elements would result in another amazing revelation? Yet here I am, just turned sixty, googling my element like a child on a scavenger hunt. Here’s what I...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 23, 2013 | inspiration, philosophy, popular culture, science, Uncategorized
In 1969, I was a high school freshman. Middle school had bussed me from a known quantity – a neighborhood in which I thrived with friends I’d known since kindergarten – into flights of stairs and home rooms and tennis courts and football fields and oh, so...
