by Bela Johnson | Apr 9, 2019 | compassion, creativity, gardening, healing, nature, Uncategorized
The crescent mark left by a garden knife is slowly mending, unresisting as I cleave yet another lifted layer of my own skin from its center until a proper feeling of softness returns to adjacent banks of that once-jagged riverbed; Like one’s own feelings...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 4, 2019 | gardening, Hawaii, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
There is green, and then there is the delicate curled chartreuse ribs of a fern frond as sunlight trips fantastic through the rhythm and hum of a late afternoon, busiest time of day for folding in fragments of lost time in preparation for the long shadows of impending...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 27, 2019 | Hawaii, inspiration, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
When the silver spool of dawn unravels in languorous wisps, as clouds unfurl low and wide in the overhead sky, my gaze sweeps broadly and what I behold is the artist’s palette come to life, a masterpiece with every dawning and dusky day while the earth spins...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 19, 2019 | Hawaii, inspiration, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
My Instagram post this morning quoted Mary Oliver, “My work is loving the world.” Despite what the day brings, and sometimes it seems overwhelming, could there be anything more meaningful? When the floor slips out from under my feet and I fall like Alice...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 12, 2019 | healing, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
THE TEACHING Schooled to the rigors of religion, if I took nothing else away from those origins it was faith; faith that a child’s prayers would be answered by forces unseen, and I took root in that faith like fieldstone, anchoring my small body in cracks and...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 5, 2019 | country living, Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
Shards of light splinter azure skies piercing grey and white veils hung over days we have grown accustomed to, days drowned in deluges of drenching rain once sent to nourish, now stripping shrubs and flowers of nutrients washed deep asunder; One tree standing...
