by Bela Johnson | Dec 11, 2012 | love, random thoughts, Uncategorized, words, writing
I love the English language. Every once in awhile, a word will spill out of my mouth that I haven’t used or even thought of in a very long time. I then feel compelled to play with it. I know in writing groups, for example, there are ‘prompts’...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 5, 2012 | healing, love, poetry, Uncategorized
Passion splits skin like an overripe melon straining its boundaries – Daring to go beyond convention, what’s safe. Comfort assumes new meaning, reaches deeper – until again, it stretches. And what once exhausted now sets the tone for beginning anew....
by Bela Johnson | Dec 4, 2012 | compassion, healing, peace, personal, poetry, Uncategorized
Sometimes we give all that we can, and it’s not enough. Will never be, unto death. Other times (and this may be a mistake) We do not. Wounded pride, arrogance, hurt, sensitivity; anger, fear, resentment keep us from it. We cannot give what we do not...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 29, 2012 | animals, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
As wintertime deepens, one observes nature releasing what she will not require in the cold months ahead. Energy in plants moves inward, growth slows and finally stops. Leaves shed from deciduous trees and some evergreens’ needles turn to yellow. Frogs aestivate...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 20, 2012 | healing, inspiration, personal, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
The mirror shatters – a thousand shards, rocking in the wind. Reflect! Reflect!
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...
