Category: Questioning

• There is No Dark Future! Part 2: A poem & photo series.

  A poem continued. An offering of hope. Like so many of you I have been on a spiritual journey the past year and a half. New Wisdom has been given to me. Words of truth our souls are aching to know. Thank you so much for reading these frail words which are spoken through me.…

  Joshua Khatena

  September 12, 2021

  Adventure, Backpacking, beginning, Blog, Canon Photography, Change, Colorado, Consciousness, Empowerment, Forest, Freedom, friends, growth, Healing, hiking, hope, journey, Liberation, Mountain, Murals, National Park, Nature, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Questioning, Road trip, rocky mountain, self-care, thankfulness, the Universe, transformation, Travel, trust, wanderlust, Washington, writer

  black lives matter, Blog, Change, clarity, Consciousness, empowered, explorer, friends, graffiti, growth, Human rights, love, mountains, Nature, Oneness, Photography, Poem, poet, Poetry, purpose, searching, seeker, Social Justice, thankful, transformation, Travel, wanderlust

• There is No Dark Future! 1

  

  3 year bloggerversary! “There is No Dark Future!” We are brighter than ever! It’s kismet to be back in Colorado as several writing projects are rapidly spinning into fruition. Here again the journey wraps itself into ever-expanding circles of eccentric concentricity. You see 4 years ago I heard a calling from my Higher self. Spirit…

  Joshua Khatena

  September 2, 2021

  Adventurer, America, Change, Colorado, Consciousness, Discover, earth, Empowerment, Existentialism, Forest, Freedom, friends, growth, Healing, hiking, hope, journey, life, Live, Mountain, National Park, past lives, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Questioning, rocky mountain, self-care, shaman, soul, thankfulness, the Universe, transformation, traveler, trust, ufos, Unconditional, wanderlust, wisdom, writer

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• Beyond Thunderdome 2

  Get out of your thunderdome! You get to create the rules and tools to get you to the next part of your life. Beyond the ideas we’ve been programmed to believe. Past our personal and societal impositions. Belief in your future before it has happened is the most powerful instrument in your toolbox of creation.…

  Joshua Khatena

  June 8, 2021

  Backpacking, camping, Canon Photography, Change, earth, Empowerment, Freedom, growth, Healing, hiking, hope, National Park, Photography, Questioning, Road trip, soul, the Universe, transformation, trust, utah, writer, Zion National Park

  clarity, Consciousness, empower, faith, hope, Oneness, purpose, Roadtrip, seeker, thankful, transformation, Universe, utah, Zion National Park

• Beyond Thunderdome

  I didn’t know I had fear of camping in the desert until confronted with the reality of its stark dry silence. The solemn landscape loomed with limestone and clay towers. Canyons leftover from a former ocean. Approaching the desert, I suddenly became claustrophobic, small, and unsure. Surprised by my reaction, I thought,“those feelings happen in…

  Joshua Khatena

  May 27, 2021

  Adventurer, America, Backpacking, camping, Discover, Empowerment, fear, Freedom, growth, hiking, Nature, Philosophy, Questioning, Road trip, self-care, thankfulness, Unconditional, utah, wanderlust, writer, Zion National Park

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• Setting the Record Strait Part 2

  I was at Mt. Shasta writing about one of the most surreally difficult nights of my life, right before another strange event occurred on this mountain. Truth can be a stranger dance than any of our fictions. You see, I slipped through the trapdoor of my mind after a BLM celebration, on the night of…

  Joshua Khatena

  April 9, 2021

  Adventurer, black lives matter, california, Consciousness, Existentialism, Gay, growth, Healing, hope, Mental Health, mount shasta, Mountain, Nature, Path, Philosophy, Photography, quarantine, Questioning, self-care, Social Justice, soul, the Universe, transformation, wanderlust, writer

  Author, Bipolar, Blm, blogger, Consciousness, doubt, empowered, Gay, hiking, hope, life, mount shasta, mountains, mystic, purpose, quarantine, searching, Social change, Social Justice, transformation, Travel, Universe

• Setting the Record Strait

  

  I was sat in meditation upon a plateau full of rock labyrinths in the sacred heart of mysterious Mt. Shasta. Asking the Universe for answers, as always, and waiting for a sign that I was on my path. Knowing this time I was not the crafter of my life disaster. This time the fuck- up…

  Joshua Khatena

  April 1, 2021

  Adventurer, America, Author, Backpacking, beginning, california, earth, Empowerment, Existentialism, growth, Healing, journey, life, Lost, mount shasta, Mountain, Nature Photography, Philosophy, Questioning, Social Justice, the Universe, Travel, traveler, wanderlust, writer

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• We Are Natural Mystics

  

  We Are Natural Mystics: There are pockets on Earth that no human eye has seen. Great mysteries of life are hidden in riddles and rivers. Ancient secrets sag in the marrow of oil. If we have not been able to catalog and observe all parts of our planet, then how do we bound in all…

  Joshua Khatena

  March 26, 2021

  Adventurer, America, beginning, Change, Discover, Empowerment, Existentialism, Healing, life, mount st. helens, Nature, Philosophy, Photography, Questioning, San Francisco, transformation, Travel, wanderlust, writer

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• 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

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• “Nothin’ But Time” part 2!

  

  A young forest is now growing 39 yrs after Mount St. Helens’ destructive eruption. New ecosystems have begun flourishing. Wetlands now dot the plains and valleys within the blast zone of St. Helens- becoming home to frogs, amphibians, water fowl in species and numbers that did not occupy this area in the past. Some wondered…

  Joshua Khatena

  July 27, 2019

  Adventurer, Change, Consciousness, Depression, Empowerment, Existentialism, Forest, forgiveness, growth, Healing, hope, journey, mount st. helens, Mountain, Nature Photography, Photography, Questioning, self-care, thankfulness, the Universe, wanderlust, Washington, writer

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