Tag: Gay

• Brighter Diamonds on Haight-Ashbury

  

  We block our light because we don’t believe in our own brilliance. We are more than cobwebbed echoes floating through eternal space. We are brighter diamonds, sparkling in the deep night sky. ✨✨

  Joshua Khatena

  November 17, 2021

  Author, Blog, california, Change, Consciousness, Discover, Dreams, Empowerment, Existentialism, Freedom, haight-ashbury, Healing, journey, law of attraction, Liberation, life, Philosophy, San Francisco, spirituality, thankfulness, the Universe, transformation, writer

  5d, Blog, blogger, california, clarity, Consciousness, empower, empowered, Gay, inspiration, law of attraction, life, love, Oneness, Philosophy, San Francisco, seeker, soul, spirituality, strength, thankful, transformation, Universe, wanderlust, wisdom

• Carl & Other Thoughts On BIPOC LGBTQIA Liberation

  It took Carl guts to publicly announce his sexuality. But at the end of the day Carl Nissab can physically, financially, take care of himself. He has the support of the NFL. There’s Democrats in office and most of all he can be a Pride month show horse for convenient capitalism. The NFL is also banking on White Privilege to support Carl’s homosexuality. Someone had to do it eventually. But what if a Black or Latinx player wanted to come out? There’s a lot of cultural and political reasons why that probably wouldn’t happen. How would that have played out on the home field?

  Joshua Khatena

  June 22, 2021

  BIPOC, black lives matter, Blm, carl nassib, Coming Out, Gay, Gay Rights, Mental Health, nfl, Queer, Social Justice, transformation, writer

  black lives matter, Blm, carl nassib, Coming Out, Gay, Gay Rights, LGBTQ, nfl

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Within You Without You

  

  Joseph Campbell explains the hero’s journey as a circular cycle of polarities common to all human beings. The call to adventure spurs one to leave their home and travel into the wild. The hero encounters many obstacles on the journey to their destiny. Traversing through the dark roads filled with various real and imagined terrors […]

  Joshua Khatena

  April 11, 2019

  Adventurer, Author, Backpacking, Bipolar, Blog, Book, Breakdown, Canon Photography, Consciousness, Empowerment, Existentialism, Gay, hope, Mental Health, Nature, Path, Philosophy, Photography, Questioning, self-care, thankfulness, the Universe, Travel, utah, wanderlust

  #MentalHealth, backpacker, Bipolar, Blog, clarity, Consciousness, empower, faith, forgiveness, Freedom, Gay, Joseph Campbell, New, Philosophy, Photography, Roadtrip, searching, seeker, soul, Travel, Universe, utah, wanderer, wanderlust, Washington, writer

• HomoErratic- Same as it Ever Was

  “Omg. This is what my clients must have felt like.” That’s what I said when I called MHMR- Mental Health Mental Retardation of Texas. I found myself dialing the same number I referred at least 300 people to as a social worker. The Universe. That old crafty bish. Playing the long con. I’m not used […]

  Joshua Khatena

  March 22, 2019

  ADHD, Adventurer, Author, Bipolar, Blog, Breakdown, Consciousness, Depression, Empowerment, Gay, hope, Mental Health, Mountain, Nature, Questioning, self-care, soul, thankfulness, Travel, wanderlust, writer

  #MentalHealth, Author, Bipolar, Blog, clarity, Consciousness, Depression, Gay, hope, inspiration, Nature, Photography, Travel

• 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

  #MentalHealth, Author, backpacker, Bipolar, Blog, Depression, explorer, Gay, mexico, Roadtrip, searching, strength, Travel, wanderer, wanderlust

• Second book in progress: Queer and Bloating in Wyoming

  I apologize for the radio silence of late. I’ve been reflecting on some deep truths and adjusting to life after a half year of traveling. I am excited to be moving to Washington state in two weeks! Back to the working world of 8-5 but still writing!. This is a short post with an excerpt […]

  Joshua Khatena

  March 2, 2019

  Adventurer, Author, Bipolar, Blog, Book, Breakdown, Depression, Empowerment, Gay, journey, Mental Health, Mountain, Photography, the Universe, wanderlust, writer

  #MentalHealth, Author, Bipolar, Consciousness, doubt, Gay, Nature, Roadtrip, Travel