https://henrykoonthinks.com Reflections on life, faith, the outdoors, and writing. en Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:05:18 GMT https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/chapter-10-wild-again https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/chapter-10-wild-again Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Miles 943-1018 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-9-koondance-2 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-9-koondance-2 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mile 880-943 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/on-loving-america-and-deadheads https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/on-loving-america-and-deadheads Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts from the 4th of July https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-8-koondance1 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-8-koondance1 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT [752-881] https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-7-escaping-the-desert https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-7-escaping-the-desert Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Miles 566-752 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/an-essay-on-the-lord-s-prayer https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/an-essay-on-the-lord-s-prayer Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT I have been thinking a lot about prayer as I have been in the woods, and as I don’t have the internet or books or big Bibles most of the time, I am limited to the prayers I have memorized. I am https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-6-make-some-friends-mountain-man https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-6-make-some-friends-mountain-man Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Miles 454-566 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-5-great-quests-unnecessarily-undertaken https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-5-great-quests-unnecessarily-undertaken Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mile 266- Mile 455 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-3 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-3 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Miles 77-179 (Julian—>Idyllwild) https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-4-alone-in-the-wilderness https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-chapter-4-alone-in-the-wilderness Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 179-266 [Idyllwild to Big Bear] 10% done https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/chapter-1-miles-0-0-5 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/chapter-1-miles-0-0-5 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Traveling is work too guys https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/chapter-2 https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/chapter-2 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Miles 0.5-77.1 Campo, Morena, Mt. Laguna, Julian https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-1-i-m-hiking-from-mexico-to-canada https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/pct-1-i-m-hiking-from-mexico-to-canada Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pre Trail and The Flight Out ((Also--What is the PCT?)) https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/stained-glass-story-the-redemptive-art-of-sub-creation https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/stained-glass-story-the-redemptive-art-of-sub-creation Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT My undergraduate Thesis on Mythopoeic ontology https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/you-shouldn-t-have-to-be-scared-of-cops https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/you-shouldn-t-have-to-be-scared-of-cops Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT In America https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/subcreation-and-stained-glass-windows https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/subcreation-and-stained-glass-windows Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thoughts on Art, transcendence, and being itself https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/movie-review-project-hail-mary https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/movie-review-project-hail-mary Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Is it slop? Is it propaganda? Is it art? https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/death-on-the-matts https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/death-on-the-matts Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/book-review-the-doors-of-perception-by-aldous-huxley https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/book-review-the-doors-of-perception-by-aldous-huxley Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tonight I sat down and read The Doors of Perception and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it.  https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/the-vast-and-singular-christ https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/the-vast-and-singular-christ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/book-review-all-the-pretty-horses https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/book-review-all-the-pretty-horses Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/the-feminine-good-and-evil-in-middle-earth https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/the-feminine-good-and-evil-in-middle-earth Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/life-is-a-story https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/life-is-a-story Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/the-climb-of-worship https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/the-climb-of-worship Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT "I would rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking of mountains" https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/waking-in-woods-a-poem https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/waking-in-woods-a-poem Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT To rise in the morning and breath cool fresh air the smell of smoke lingering on tent, shirt and hair an empty bottle of whiskey lying somewhere over... https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/today-i-climbed-a-tree-a-short-poem https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/today-i-climbed-a-tree-a-short-poem Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/watching-from-the-bottom-a-meanish-poem https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/watching-from-the-bottom-a-meanish-poem Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/koon-studies-the-study-of-life-the-universe-and-ev https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/koon-studies-the-study-of-life-the-universe-and-ev Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/the-calling-a-poem https://henrykoonthinks.com/posts/the-calling-a-poem Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT