by Bela Johnson | Apr 5, 2020 | community, consciousness, nature, peace, philosophy, Uncategorized
I write, and I start; write and I stop; what can be said in these times? Only that what many consider real out there is simply not my reality. Yet how to explain this so that people don’t feel as though I am being careless or crass? The fact is, I care so much...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 27, 2020 | inspiration, nature, perspective, philosophy, Uncategorized
I have chosen to come here to this place, bleak and dry and windblown after the harshness of winter; the land has been in isolation too, as it perpetually will uncomplainingly, year following year, why do we humans resist it so? The is-ness of life is a thing we have...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 4, 2020 | nature, philosophy, self awareness, Uncategorized
A light shaft slices down the lane through the truffled cover of night, bouncing heaven-first to shoulders, traveling the length of my spine to the tips of chilled fingers, then perceived again clearly through another’s warmed skin, like holding a...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 25, 2020 | gardening, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
I had to look twice, glancing out the kitchen window as the flutter of a mynah bird’s jet black wings jogged my vision into memory, the giant frond of a Queen Emma lily flung carelessly by a kicking wind, bent not broken into a shape resembling the appendage of...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 20, 2020 | country living, gardening, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
Winds kick and gust, twisting limbs and shaking foliage and branches loose, culling the dead and startling the living into a wakefulness that strengthens, even as surely they flinch at the onslaught; Large foot-long seed pods drop to the ground in varying shades of...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 12, 2020 | consciousness, nature, peace, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
Will we be part of the madness, or will we join in a vision of a better world? How many times has this thought occurred to you in the past few decades? Yet now more than ever, the question becomes crucial. My friend Sue Dreamwalker recommended a series of...
