Ohana Belle

04/04/2026

Winning isn’t complicated. It’s just uncomfortable. It’s years of looking stupid, failing constantly, being misunderstood. But on the other side? Freedom. Co...

08/07/2025

Ever feel like you’re circling something you almost know how to name?

Not quite a block.
Not quite fear.
More like… a gate.

Lately, I’ve been working on something that asks you to meet that moment with honesty—not force.

No fixing. No pushing. Just recognition.

There’s a part of you that remembers what hurt.
And it’s been trying to protect you the best way it knows how.

What would shift if you thanked it… instead of fighting it?

(Something new is coming soon. Rituals. Prompts. A quiet room inside a book. You’ll know when it’s time.)

🗝

08/07/2025

As a writer I've always loved this one:

“It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.”
Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body

by Literature

06/16/2025

R.W.Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

I'm sorry, I don't know that there was ever really a cover but I did find this nice photograph and quote .

Hi everyone, I'll try and keep it as brief as possible. I get excited about this guy. I’ve carried Emerson with me since I first stumbled over his thorny prose at the age of 16—so ahead of his time! For me his voice rings like a clarion call to the soul. I named my eldest son Emerson. I chose that name in gratitude for every moment I’ve spent unraveling those layered blocks of meaning. I often find myself halting mid-page, rereading entire passages to hold fast to the thread of his thought, marveling at how he builds idea upon idea until the whole stands in magnificent relief. He really is genius. I scoff at a lot of religious content, but his spirituality is more in line with my modern thinking Even for being a mid-19th century preacher.

But the heart of this essay—his rallying cry to “Speak your latent convictions; and it will be the universal sense”—is pure Emerson at his most uncompromising, insisting that we claim our own truths before someone else gives them voice for us. There is no finer challenge or greater gift, and I wish everyone could feel that pulse of clarity and courage. If you’ve never dared to wrestle with these pages, you owe yourself the pleasure; his words will haunt you, provoke you, and, if you let them, transform you.

With Love,
Jaden Z Beall
of Ohana Belle

05/21/2025

05/21/2025

With Horror Fan Society – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉