by Bela Johnson | May 9, 2017 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, personal, Uncategorized
On this wet Sunday afternoon, quiet beckons with slender tendrils and we head out, dogless and solitary, seeking only a spit of dry ground to wander the rock-encrusted coastline just down the road from our little town; Recently returned from half a world away heads...
by Bela Johnson | May 2, 2017 | nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
Just because it’s all they’ve ever known doesn’t mean it’s all they know. This was a thought, post grief, after observing for myself creatures my child self deemed mystical: kookaburra, wombat, wallaby, koala; none in a feral state, of course. Which brought up those...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 25, 2017 | lifestyle, musings, Uncategorized
We hardly ever call a blouse a blouse in these days of tops and tees and such. Yet in Mrs. Helsel’s 1967 eighth grade homemaking class (to which only girls were admitted – boys were relegated to ‘shop), we were required to sew an A-line skirt and a blouse. With...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 18, 2017 | family, forgiveness, Uncategorized
I never told you I loved you enough, the only ones to whom it might have mattered and mattered much, how could I? There are certain things one apprehends only with age, the fact that most parents were mere children themselves when they raised us up; Now when I...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 13, 2017 | nature, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, Uncategorized
The unity of the human race dictated by the global village we anxiously inhabit – while still looking for a safer place to settle – is a unity that far transcends the sexual attraction of opposites. It is rather a unity that issues from a profound identity that...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 11, 2017 | happiness, lifestyle, musings, philosophy, relationships, Uncategorized
Is it familiar, the aching sentiment when what seemed known becomes assumption and once again melts down, dilutes into watercolor illusion, deceiving like a dramatic heist of the pureness of Being; All feels just until it ceases to be, no more mistaking favor...
