by Bela Johnson | Jan 20, 2026 | cosmos, deep space, Uncategorized
Look — the universe is not chaos.It is ordered beneath appearance. The void —a dark, voluminous fullness —listens before it speaks.It pulses with life, with potential,and makes no effort to explain itself. The quantum realm has much to teachthat way. In the silence...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 17, 2026 | intimacy, love, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptCan you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?View all responses People are fickle.Emotions vary. The universe and nature know nothingof these human fluctuations.The mountains and the stars simply are. Their constancy has...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 16, 2026 | equality, human interest, Uncategorized
We humans hold tightly to beliefs,as if they were vital organs.Perhaps they are. We need to feel safein an increasingly unsafe world. Fair enough. Fundamentalist religions understand this well—how firm boundaries,declared holy,can feel like shelter. How obediencecan...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
(Note** This is a poem about a lie spread sixty years ago, that Beatle Paul was dead. This is not, in fact, what happened. Paul McCartney is very much alive today, as of this writing in 2025.) Paul is dead.A most beloved Beatle. I was in junior high school, bussed...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 13, 2026 | context, dreaming, Uncategorized
It began as a modest house.The kind you rent because it’s in your budget.Brown floors. Plain rooms.We needed shelter — and yet. Even then,I was already measuringwhat I could hold. I felt tenderness for the older man who owned it —he could not afford to live there...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 11, 2026 | gardening, patience, Uncategorized
The garden waits,its pulse separate from mine—a thousand roots threading throughtheir own decisions. I have pruned too much,watered from lack of rain,guarded what would havedone better left alone. Too much,even when well intentioned,is still too much. Now, I watch the...
