Category: family

• The Long Ride Home pt. 1

  In 2017 I told myself, “When I move to Portland, I’m going skiing after work.” I moved here one year ago, and for the past 2 months I’ve been gratefully skiing on the Earth’s mirror, scarcely believing this is home now. It was one of those dreams we all have like building a house, visiting […]

  Joshua Khatena

  March 14, 2020

  Adventurer, beginning, Blog, Breakdown, Canon Photography, Change, Consciousness, Empowerment, family, Gay, growth, Healing, journey, law of attraction, life, Live, Mental Health, mount hood, Mountain, Oregon, Philosophy, Photography, Questioning, self-care, ski, skiing, soul, thankfulness, the Universe, wanderlust, writer

  blogger, Change, clarity, Consciousness, empowered, explorer, fate, Freedom, Gay, growth, hope, inspiration, life, Mental Health, motivation, mountains, Nature, New, Oregon, Philosophy, Photography, purpose, Saturday, seeker, self-care, ski, soul, thankful, Travel, Universe, wanderer, writer

• Reflecktion of Reflections

  

  The reflection of a mountain lake is changed by ripples of kayakers, canoes, fish, and wind. Mirrors cannot be fully trusted, even in nature, for they do not present the subject as it truly exists. What we see is the inverse reflection of an image but not the actual image itself. In that way we […]

  Joshua Khatena

  August 4, 2019

  Adventurer, Bipolar, Birth, Change, Consciousness, Empowerment, Existentialism, family, Forest, life, Live, mount adams, Mountain, Nature, Nature Photography, Path, Philosophy, Photography, Plato, Rumi, self-care, Socrates, soul, thankfulness, the Universe, Travel, wanderlust, Washington, World Travel, writer

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• Queer and Bloating in Wyoming- “Bipolar’s Coming at you like a dark horse”

  

  Don’t you kind of hate it when people say something happens for a reason? It’s a pretty great rationalization technique for a crisis after the fact. A “god in the gaps” defense to explain that this particular suffering has a purpose and to quell grumblers and complainers mulling around physical deserts or the ones we […]

  Joshua Khatena

  March 5, 2019

  ADHD, Adventurer, Author, Backpacking, Bipolar, Blog, Book, Breakdown, Depression, family, Gay, Mental Health, mexico, Mountain, National Park, Photography, Travel, wanderlust, writer

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