by Bela Johnson | Jan 1, 2026 | choice, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptWhat are your biggest challenges?View all responses Right now, my greatest challengeis staying on the planet—alive and optimistic,which is my basic nature. With all that has transpired in 2025,and all that unfolds across a lifetimethat feels seven...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 31, 2025 | authenticity, collective history, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptWhat makes you feel nostalgic?View all responses I am not one who looks back, longingfor what was, or what might have been—that way of seeing sets me upfor self-criticism,which dims my spiritrather than lifting it. Nor am I inclinedto prop myself...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 30, 2025 | authenticity, healing, nature, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptWhat relationships have a positive impact on you?View all responses What puts a smile on my face,causes my heart to leap,are encounters with the wild. Whether face to face with a mountain lionor pressing my nose to a tuberose flower,a warmth...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 29, 2025 | Hawaii, nature, Observations, Uncategorized
When we bought this house,the attic was full of ratsand mynah bird nests,one in every corner.Chris calls them Hawaiian crows—there are similarities:clever, persistent,strong-willed. A year later, despite sealingevery possible entrance—each hole that once invited...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 27, 2025 | compassion, relationships, truth revealed, Uncategorized
We all need at least one good friend—someone who sees us as we are,receives usjust as we are. I don’t need fixing or coddling,or borrowed stories meant to prop me up—lines lifted from some forgettable show.What I need mostis a witness, preferably silent:someone who...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 25, 2025 | Hawaii, holiday, Honoka'a, Uncategorized
We are home againin our sweet old plantation house in Kohala,after a day in Honokaʻa—a town we hadn’t visited in years,and how it has changed!Not loudly.Not falsely.But with a kind of quiet dazzle,the best kind,the kind that surprises without askingto be applauded. We...
