by Bela Johnson | Jan 29, 2020 | animals, growing up, nature, personal, perspective, Uncategorized
The ocean pulls up, pulls away, hisses, leaving tiny air holes in the sand; I am fourteen, in love with creation, full of life and dreaming possibilities; Still on the beach I lie, slim belly pressed down against earth’s beating heart, looking not at the tossing...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 22, 2020 | nature, perspective, spirituality, Uncategorized
Cracking through his crusty skin, the butterflies await therein; In trembling light, antennae perched in front, ahead, and primed to lurch; The quavered sense that life’s amiss somehow obscures the hours of bliss; the chores and drudge originate, perspective...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 15, 2020 | country living, lifestyle, nature, spirituality, Uncategorized
Last Monday we closed on the lovely property pictured here. We are now in a position of having secured the ground for our future whilst awaiting the selling of the home we have lovingly restored from old Plantation times to its present incarnation. It’s been so...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 10, 2020 | inspiration, nature, patience, philosophy, Uncategorized
Humbled by an ending which is only the beginning, I slowly row my boat toward shore, but find there is no safe harbor, no spit of earth on which to land, so I gather up oars again; not time, not yet; I know but don’t know this ephemeral relationship with the...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 1, 2020 | country living, lifestyle, musings, personal, Uncategorized
Aloha, dear people: Sorry for my scattered check-ins and the cessation of my own WP posts, I do value this WP community. A few months ago, the Universe tapped me on the shoulder and it precipitated some major life changes that we are in the midst of just now. If...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 22, 2019 | dreaming, nature, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, Uncategorized
Trembling gently in twilight, rippling like a mirage, what seems solid during the day becomes otherworldly by nightfall when things left unresolved return to haunt the living; Important then to honor passing dreams, full-blown stories once told to the very young,...
