by Bela Johnson | Mar 30, 2018 | Hawaii, nature, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
When I moved to the Hawaiian islands over twenty-five years ago, I shouldered a bit of cynicism and not a little buried anger. Living in a land of volcanoes was illuminating. Time and again, my feet were held to madame Pele’s fire. Time and again, I tried to...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 26, 2018 | lifestyle, mindfulness, nature, perspective, popular culture, Uncategorized
I once knew a woman who kept her world on the shortest leash imaginable. This overstuffed orb consisted of all she felt she could control and nothing she could not. It must have been mind bending trying to keep all the plates spinning in the air, for if one crashed to...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 20, 2018 | philosophy, random thoughts, Uncategorized
Communication is composition, ideally orchestrated if fortuitous enough to grasp one another by our carefully chosen words; Yet too often in bright headlamps of passing thought trains, we stand transfixed, unable to move forward or back, confused and confounded,...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 13, 2018 | musings, perspective, Uncategorized
The body comes last as she bounds into chaos, the day, to work on no breakfast for starters, watching her weight as is the call of her generation, Twiggy-thin or else considered fat, little choice in the matter but to subsume any physical appetites which, by the way,...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 6, 2018 | growing up, personal, popular culture, Uncategorized
Songs possess the power to take me back in time, drop the needle onto spinning vinyl, crackle and pop of a generation; Subjective as memory can be, the body does not lie and it is this visceral recall a tune nudges into being, cruising in that little red Rambler,...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 27, 2018 | nature, perspective, poetry, Uncategorized, writing
The grit of metaphor grinds slowly, chafing the brain until words emerge, runaway horses on the plains of pages, hooves pounding sentiments, grafting meaning onto senselessness resulting, it is hoped, in broadening context for eyes to behold, reversing imprints from...
