by Bela Johnson | Nov 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
There are times when the natural world offers up something so unexpected that I find myself wondering why we humans go to such lengths to invent the extraordinary. Once, hiking on Vancouver Island, I encountered a mountain lion. A creature I had never imagined I would...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Whoever would have plotted and planned to build four more? We actually built six in the end, though looking back, it seems almost impossible that we’ve racked up that many dwellings. The land itself was initially no problem. It was family land, considered useless by...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
There is green –and then there are the delicate,curled chartreuse ribsof a fern frond as sunlight trips fantasticthrough the rhythm and humof late afternoon, that hour when the daybegins gathering its scattered moments,folding them into the long shadowsof approaching...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Friday morning, and I am walking the ocean trail, contemplating the peculiar ways we humans come to understand ourselves. For much of its length, this trail is lined with old kiawe trees, known as mesquite on the mainland. Some are eighty years old or more, their...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
As I walk along this ocean path several times a week, I stop at familiar places. One is a beautiful bay where the water is so clear I can see almost to the bottom. I regard the choppy ocean, the waves turning this way and that, their shifting surfaces creating a...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
I would knock on his doorand he would open it, always. This was less premonition,more simply knowing. Over three decades of history,and here’s the one personwho will never let me down. Sometimes we do attuneto the other’s thoughts,though it is hard to attribute thisto...
