by Bela Johnson | Jul 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
Yesterday late afternoon we were coming home through the harbor, up the ocean road to Kohala. There’s a handful of metal commercial buildings right after that turn. It was there that something caught my eye—a flock of geese, flying in V formation toward the mountain....
by Bela Johnson | Jul 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Be still long enoughand you will feel what cannot be diagrammed —this grass,this park,this day hazed over the ocean,not clearly in view. Focus turns inward. Sitting beneath the spreading canopyof the monkeypod,its wide arms holding shadethe way land holds memory. What...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
We’ve been flung out over water like skipping stones—not on a lake or pond, but across the long, wide, never-ending turquoise ocean of the Pacific. Soaring in a metal tube while everything that follows us arrives by barge. As we settle our belongings—the dogs forget...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Sometimes I glimpse, for a millisecond,another reality, another way of being in the world.It’s as if I have been wandering through a giant old building,catching shards of light as they stream through cracksin the weathered walls. An old structure along Route 2 in...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
The steady drizzle of a Hawaiian tradewinds pattern hereon the windward side of this island brings to mindthe shrieking gusts of the high desert in New Mexico—harsh winds that strip away any moisture that might lingeron the surface of things. I’m not sure what drew me...
by Bela Johnson | Jun 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
I can’t know what it will be liketo be eighty.Ninety.One hundred. How could I? PerhapsI will enter those decadesmuch as I have the seventh —one ordinary daybecoming the next. That is how muchof this human journeyhas passed. One day turns into the next,and before...
