the rohn report

I’m into Hiroshi Yoshimura these days. I go through phases with music. It’s my job, listening to music and writing stuff, so I hear alot of it. YouTube. Then something gets inspired and it starts to flow. Only then does it quicken and get deep. And isn’t that what it’s about? Don’t we want to get quickened? Especially if we’re late driving the kids to school and there’s been an accident. I think s...

Every time I start out with this newsletter I try not to deliver a sermon, but I usually fail. I guess it’s my genre. Or maybe my fate. Supernova! Stars get old and die, just like everything else. Some stars are so huge (eight times the mass of our sun) that when they burn out and collapse, it causes them to explode in a rare and glorious event called a supernova. In these glorious explosions the...

A few days ago I was riding my bicycle thru the park and stopped to talk to a couple of kids playing there. “Are you setting up a shop to sell stuff?” I inquired. They had groups of stones arranged on a rock.“No, we’re playing Minecraft.”“What?”“Minecraft.”“Oh. You’re using stones for Minecraft?”“They’re not stones.”“Oh. They’re acorns. They came out of the tree.” One of the kids immediately went...

That was my search term: ‘Danish custom in winter’ . . . . . search result: ‘Hygge, a prominent Danish custom during winter is "hygge," which emphasizes creating a cozy and comfortable atmosphere with family and friends, often involving candles, warm drinks, and enjoying the simple pleasures of being together, essentially finding joy in the cold winter months.’ Thank you AI Overview. You are too c...

This podcast is about air, the thing that gives us life. Also the thing that fuels wildfires - like LA. It creates and it destroys. Both are equal for air. It’s a primordial force. Originally published last Spring, I thought it was time to revive it. It’s one of my favorites and besides I didn’t have anything else ready. So it’s a rerun. Hey, even my Baptist preacher father used to do that. Ok, so...

It just won’t rain around here. It’s disturbing. Maybe you don’t care if you don’t live around here but hear me out. The rain goes right around our town. I’ve watched it on radar. Disappointed again. Now there’s a 97% chance of rain for Thursday, the day this post will go live. I’ll bet you a dollar we barely get pissed on. Excuse the vernacular. I’m a little disturbed, discouraged, affected, deje...

the fireworks are over / the dogs have stopped barkingmy cats have come home from under cover hidingthe only changes I have seen so far but all the changes will have to be in meor it will be the same old year againis what i’m thinking and how to change myself ??that’s the hardest oneeverything else is do-able there’s a tool or a wayor a strategy or a precedentbut how to make your way among the tan...

I caught a viral infection, right at the height of the holiday season. Couldn’t fulfill any of my social opportunities and obligations. No parties, no get-togethers, no singing Christmas Carols at the church. Sniffling and snuffling and coughing and sneezing my way thru the night, sinuses congested, hard to breathe. Yeah, each breath was a struggle. The need to get oxygen - urgent and primal. Sati...

I’m intoxicated by the falling leaves. Especially if they’re wet. I feel wealthy, rich with leaves. The front porch greets me with leaves. mixed among the new growth the leaves lie where they fallit’s beautiful i walk among the leavesthey have nothing to say i like that. i sit among the leavesi listen closely nothing happens i am consoled by so many leaves just lying here saying nothing doing noth...

Originally published on August 3, 2003, I thought it was high time to revive this classic. It had come up, recently, in conversation with a cafe friend who also knew Abby and that seemed like a prompt, maybe an omen. The conversation ranges from the absurd to the sublime, from the silly to the deeply philosophical, from the hilarious to the merely delightful. I hope you enjoy it . . . Welcome to B...

I have this weird belief that doctors don’t know everything, that there’s more to know and that each one of us can, in our own unique way, discover and utilize our own personal healing modalities. What is a healing modality? It’s a way of getting better, getting rid of illness and debility. It’s something that makes you strong and resilient, flexible even. Our species has discovered and forgotten...

So me and my buddy John decided to go to the Thanksgiving dinner downtown at the Convention Center, being the lonely solo acts that we are with nothing else to do for Thanksgiving. That’s kind of what it’s for, I guess, the Street People show up, families, all kinds of people, 25,000 of them according to the official website. That’s like a football game almost. Actually, Thanksgiving is in the tra...

You have yourself. If that doesn’t sound like sarcasm or a platitude. Are you bored with yourself or are you good company? Believe me it has taken me decades to understand this concept. I’m still working on it. You are not alone, even Echo Other explains that. I listen to alot of music. It soothes my soul. It has healing energy - like talking to a friend or doing yoga on the rug. Mostly I find my...

I’m copying a fellow Substacker’s post here because it was exhilaratingly entertaining. I knew at once it was going to be good when she began: We stood in the grass, an infinite moment or two—my bare feet on morning dew, Kitty Nova wearing her best fur—and watched the world, more ears than eyes, more nosing than knowing. I tune myself to her tail-conducted symphony, discordant human notes relaxing...

. . . to process what just happened watching the early returns on PBS one of the commentators said “America is on trial and we’re about to find out who we are.” the verdict is in / this is who we are they kept saying ‘this election is about the economy’ but that never felt right to me / what it's really about is the environment that we're so intent on destroying / what it’s really about is war and...

Happy Halloween! Scary! And election day is right around the corner, almost the same day. That’s scary too. The number of robocalls and text messages and tv commercials increase dramatically. Tv ads extoll the virtues and intelligence of one candidate over the lethargic, stupid, almost sub-human depravity of the other, as if people were stupid and believed everything they see on tv. They don’t. Th...

This post was published one year ago on Oct 25, 2023. I thought it was time to reprise it. ‘from the west to the easthear the prayer of the mothersbring us peace bring us peace’ Since I discovered this video from a friend’s post on WhatsApp I’ve played it a bunch of times, each time discovering something new, my eyes filling with tears by the end. That’s powerful. It was powerful for me. I’m just...

Kabir says “When I received the invitation to go home, I cried for I knew that there was no sweetness like truth-speaking even in heaven.” Something like that. I relate it to conversation, free flowing and spontaneous. Don’t know if that’s what Kabir had in mind but I’m pretty sure. Forthcoming, candid, forthright, frank and free. Reading the thesaurus now. Sincere, straight, truthful, unequivocal...

Here’s a picture of Milton as it churns it’s way towards Florida. It fills up the entire Gulf of Mexico. It accelerated from a normal, puny little hurricane to Cat 5 in a matter of hours. Big storm. Warm water. Of course everyone already knows about Hurricane Helene , she just visited this area a few days ago. She dropped as much as 30 inches of rain in some places up in the mountains of North Car...

Once upon a time, back in the nineties, when Tulum was just a sleepy little Mayan village and the Caribbean coast still had sandy beaches with palm trees and mangrove swamps and wild jungle stretching out endlessly, I lived in Mexico. I lived on one of those sandy beaches with palm trees. Infact it even had a cenote back off in the mangroves aways. Cenotes are fresh water pools that the Yucatan is...

This post was originally published in the spring of ‘22 as you may notice from the lush foliage in the picture. After writing about refugees in my last post I got a comment from Mary Ann pointing out that not only are people refugees but animals are refugees too. Pushed out of their natural living areas by humans, AKA ‘development’, they have to adapt or perish. My veterinarian once told me that w...

According to a BBC article written by Amber Dance and published on Sept. 15, 2024, there are billions and maybe trillions of bacteriophage (pronounced bakteeria faazh) viruses interacting with the bacteria in our gut. Wow. They ‘interact’ with the bacteria by injecting their DNA, or RNA as the case may be, into the bacteria along with some random genetic material that they picked up from some othe...

Mercury is the first planet from the sun. A little too warm for most people - average temperatures are around 330 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s like an oven. You could bake a cake in there. Earth is the third rock from the sun, so to say, having a solid core like the other inner planets. It’s comfortable, so comfortable that life was established here billions of years ago and continues to proliferate...

Back in the day, back before there was any city, there was a Spring. It gushed out of the ground, splashed on the rocks, swirled around and flowed down the hill. It became a Stream. It wound its way here and there as it flowed through the Valley of San Antonio (which wasn’t San Antonio yet) creating Groovy Nooks all along the way. What is a groovy nook, you might ask? That is when two things meet...

This week on the rohn report, we’ve got an exclusive interview with Lynn Cuny, the founder and president of WRR, Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation. A truly remarkable woman (and a truly remarkable organization) who has taken her vision for a sustainable sanctuary for injured or impaired wildlife from her own two bedroom home to a 212 acre sanctuary. But first, let me tell you my story of how I me...