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  • Rider of Days (Part 1)

    Rider of Days (Part 1)

    This year has led us down the path to becoming unconditional. To acceptance of life’s continual uncertainties. It’s the surest voyage to setting yourself free. We are all riders on different courses of a mortal journey. This Universe resides nowhere and all at once, forever in the process of becoming. Maybe it takes the pulling away of the light for leaves & light to matter. There’s no map, no brave stars to tell us the way to go. Would we listen if there were?

    Joshua Khatena

    November 24, 2020
    beginning, black lives matter, Canon Photography, Consciousness, Empowerment, Existentialism, forgiveness, ocean, Oregon, Photography, Social Justice, thankfulness, thanksgiving, Unconditional, wanderlust, writer
    Blog, Change, Consciousness, empower, empowered, forgiveness, Freedom, hope, justice, Nature, ocean, Oneness, Photography, seeker, Social change, unconditional love
  • Dressed to Suppress pt. 1

    It’s 2 days before the US elects another president. And it’s hard to pretend that social justice and human rights aren’t just below my level of awareness almost every moment of waking life. That most of us are hopeful and unsure, afraid of what will happen to our country for the next 4 years. Because […]

    Joshua Khatena

    November 1, 2020
    writer
    black lives matter, Change, doubt, election, empower, Freedom, hope, Human rights, Social change, Social Justice, vote
  • Thunder on the Mountain 2

    Thunder on the Mountain 2

    Every Mountain calls you home in different ways. St. Helen’s is a mountain of contemplation & rebirth. The felled forests enables one to see out in vast distances. The ghostly backdrop enables one to project your thoughts and hopes onto. Engulfed in barren rugged crust of Earth. In fact the desolation of Mt. St. Helen’s […]

    Joshua Khatena

    September 15, 2020
    Backpacking, Canon Photography, Change, earth, Forest, forgiveness, Freedom, growth, Healing, hope, life, mount st. helens, Mountain, Nature Photography, Photography, revolution, the Universe, wanderlust, writer
    black lives matter, Blog, Change, explorer, forgiveness, Freedom, growth, inspiration, mount st. helens, mountains, Nature, Philosophy, Photography, strength, transformation, wanderlust
  • Thunder on the Mountain

    Every mountain calls to you in a different way. Last weekend I asked St. Helens why she had called me back to her eerie barren landscape and why it was to be alone? Exactly 2 years ago, I had a massive breakdown at Mount St. Helen’s while writing my first book. My fate continues wrapped […]

    Joshua Khatena

    September 13, 2020
    writer
  • Express Yourself, Respect Yourself, Baby!

    Express Yourself, Respect Yourself, Baby!

    There’s a freedom to be who you are in Portland and it’s sacred. This city is unlike any place I’ve lived. The overall ethos of the city is to live with respect and communion with all people and harmony with the Earth, without pigeonholing everyone into tidy labels and categories. That’s one reason why this […]

    Joshua Khatena

    August 5, 2020
    Dreams, Empowerment, Freedom, growth, writer
    Blog, Change, empower, empowered, explorer, Freedom, Gay, Human rights, inspiration, law of attraction, Nature, New, Nude, Oregon, Photography, Queer, searching, seeker, self-care, Social change, soul, Travel, wanderlust
  • Let Freedom Ring!

    Some men are of the opinion that God gave them Earth to rule as their dominion. Beasts to subdue Manifest lands to ravage Peace was slaughtered Its Peoples were called Savage. Modern generations birthed beneath fluorescent glows God became irrelevant when man learned fire all his own. But I’ve always felt more akin to Icarus […]

    Joshua Khatena

    July 4, 2020
    America, black lives matter, Empowerment, july 4th, justice, Poetry, revolution, Social Justice, writer
  • Let Freedom Ring 07/04/20

    Let Freedom Ring 07/04/20

    Some men are of the opinion that God gave them Earth to rule as their dominion. Beasts to subdue Manifest lands to ravage Peace was slaughtered Its Peoples were called Savage. Modern generations birthed beneath fluorescent glows God became irrelevant when man learned fire all his own. But I’ve always felt more akin to Icarus […]

    Joshua Khatena

    July 4, 2020
    America, black lives matter, Consciousness, forgiveness, Freedom, july 4th, justice, Live, oppression, Poem, Poetry, Social Justice, soul, writer
    America, black lives matter, Blm, Blog, empower, forgiveness, Freedom, hope, Human rights, independence, justice, Oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Social change, Social Justice
  • The Protest Manifestos: Excerpts (Volume 1)

    The Protest Manifestos: Excerpts (Volume 1)

    For we lie with primordial oppressors pressing up and against each other. An eternal cycle of validation and degradation. Creation, present being, and destruction. Every action is in effort to achieve a goal. The Earth’s plates rubbed against each other and created mountains. Seas were parted in the birthing of Volcanoes. Nations rise in valorous […]

    Joshua Khatena

    June 28, 2020
    black lives matter, Change, Consciousness, earth, Empowerment, Existentialism, forgiveness, justice, Mountain, Nature, writer
    America, black lives matter, Blog, Consciousness, earth, empowered, Freedom, life, love, Nature, Photography, Social Justice, strength, Truth, unity
  • Sunshine Laundromat

    Columbia Gorge has finally reopened. The river itself a glacier’s million-year pet project eroding earth out to the Pacific. Call it Nature’s version of “will they or won’t they?” (Sorry Sam and Diane.) The Columbia feels ancient and powerful perhaps because this river wasn’t “supposed” to be here. It was carved into the marrow of […]

    Joshua Khatena

    May 8, 2020
    beginning, Canon Photography, Consciousness, Empowerment, Existentialism, quarantine, self-care, soul, the Universe, Travel, wanderlust, Washington, writer
    Author, Blog, blogger, clarity, Consciousness, covid, empower, growth, mountains, Nature, Philosophy, Photography, quarantine, searching, transformation, Travel, Universe, wanderer, wanderlust, Washington
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