by Bela Johnson | Oct 26, 2022 | gardening, musings, nature, patience, Uncategorized
Fifteen degrees on the outdoor thermometer, and I dread walking out to an unheated greenhouse, though he tells me I should, prepares me for what I am about to witness; Tomato plants first, laden with unripened fruit, no fault, didn’t get the structure built on...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 17, 2022 | forgiveness, growing up, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
Are we really meant to impose shame,humiliation, mortification upon ourselvesand others in this life? Is this really thehigher road our spirits wish us to take;in other words, is this the desire in the mindof the creator of stars, of galaxies,of worlds too vast for...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 5, 2022 | climate change, community, gardening, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
These slate skies are familiar, in a strangeillogical way; here, there are mountains,no sea in sight, and though mists appearlike fog, it is high desert with rivers runningthrough forested landscapes, their watersunreliable as winter ocean waves in Hawaiior storms...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 17, 2022 | forgiveness, musings, nature, personal, Uncategorized
Where on earth do I belong?I have taken up space on this orbfor nearly seventy years, manyof these spent in utter confusion,lost to myself, leaving many others to wonder, who is this being?As if I, myself held the answers,aware of my motivations, I did not; And I get...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 15, 2022 | community, healing, inspiration, perspective, spirituality, Uncategorized
I realize what it is, this gift I am given, it is enough, the wisdom of the word, when for others it is the peace of prayer; where to sit in meditation with this restless energy seems futile, not indigenous to the personality, and so I walk, cycle,...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 29, 2022 | musings, perspective, philosophy, Uncategorized
I woke up this morning and Got It,I mean, kinesthetically in-my-bonesto-my-soul Got It. All was perfect,the heaviness the damp brought aboutwas gone, and in its place, an incrediblelightness of being; Of course the mind stepped into save the day, or so it thought,to...
