the rohn report

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...

There is a jungle in my backyard. In the dense foliage and among the pools and streams, the trees and shrubs, wild cats roam and nocturnal foragers forage (the Raccoons and Opossums). There are small monkey-like mammals called Squirrels jumping around in the trees. There are Doves and Mockingbirds and Cardinals, occasionally Hawks and Owls. There are screaming Blue Jays that sound like Macaws. The...

This post was originally published on February 22, 2024 and I’m reprising it here. It’s one of my favorites. Plus I don’t have the next episode ready yet. Whether you’ve seen this or if it’s new, I hope you enjoy it. You can listen to the original podcast (recommended) or read the text edition. Pacha Mama, Mother Nature, Planet Earth - unto you we sing and play. Cans and bottles and boxes and plas...

Ha! Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a monk’s cell. One of those tiny little cells like they have out at the Missions , or maybe in a monastery high up in the Himalayas. Praying to God all day. Living the simple life of contemplation and a bowl of gruel. Nobody bothering you. So my idea was to write about it, self-reflect as if I was a monk, which I think I kinda am, and see what I could come u...

All life on planet Earth, and probably anywhere else in the universe is based on carbon. It’s a simple little atom (number 6 on the periodic table) but it can form a vast number of compounds, more than any other element. Almost ten million are known and that’s only a small fraction of what’s theoretically possible. Because of it’s ability to easily form stable bonds with itself and with other elem...

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a hydrogen bomb over the Arctic Ocean which had the destructive power of 50 million tons of TNT, 1500 times more powerful than the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Everything within a 36 mile radius was vaporized. This bomb is in nobody’s arsenal, it was built for show back in the nuclear arms race days, before atmospheric testing was ban...

Every week the question arises - what should I write about for my Thursday morning rohn report? Nothing seems in focus, no inspiration. And then, inevitably, at some point during the week, something speaks to me and it’s like ok, I can write about that. This week it was on a Sunday that it came to me: oh yes, I shall write about that. In the morning I had a sleep paralysis event. I was in my bed,...

So, this week’s rohn report is about Rohn. I’ve been thinking about him. I feel like he’s newsworthy. Atleast for 5 minutes. My life has been guided by some deep underground current, I don’t know what it is. It swept me along and left me here. That’s not to say I haven’t had moments of decision, I have, where my life could have gone one way or the other. Oh my god, imagine if you were rich and fam...

It’s the one year anniversary of releasing my book to the world! Yes it has all kinds of wise quips and curious, humorous comments in it, of course, but it’s about being human. Wait a minute, I guess wise quips and humorous comments is being human. “ Humans have lived on this planet for 3 million years. ” it begins on the first page and then takes off on it’s journey thru many cultures, countries...

Stones come out of the earth, get broken down by mushrooms and become soil that all living things depend on from plants to caribou. Caribou actually eat lichen right off the rocks which also helps reduce them to dirt. Here some scientists are setting up their instruments to measure if Stonehenge was built to honor the moon as well as the sun. Those people were the first farmers so naturally they w...

That’s the question I posed. All friendly baristas ofcourse. Seemed like a good question and everyone had a unique response Some people were stunned by the audacity of it and had to look deep inside their own mind. Some people thought it was hilarious. Some people were clear as a clarion bell, some people couldn’t relate at all. Press is my common hangout. You can find me there or you can find me...

Most days my habit is to cruise the streets of San Antonio on my bike finding adventures and a thousand piquant things to observe. Did I say a thousand? a million, as many as the eye can see, from tiny to huge, squirrels to murals. This town is rife with murals, large and boisterous, provocative, ubiquitous, beautiful, startling - on the west-side, downtown, near north-side, south-side, east-side,...

Jane walked into the room and turned on the light. The telephone was on the copy editor’s desk just a few feet away. She started to move towards it and then hesitated. ‘Maybe not a good idea.’ she thought to herself. Instead she reached into her purse for cigarettes, drew them out and opened the case. She placed one of the cigarettes between her lips but didn’t light it. This is how you start a st...

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” From “The Sayings of Muad’Dib” by the Princess Irulan Sounds about right. That’s the epigraph on page 459 of my library copy. I’m reading it in bits and pieces, a few paragraphs here, an epigraph there, can’t seem to make it thru the dense underbrush o...

Ok, so this is how it happened. I was riding my bike thru Brackenridge Park and feeling the wind on my face. Hey this is air, I thought, I’m moving thru air . There were some people walking nearby on the sidewalk, hey they’re walking thru air too, I thought as I rolled by them. An innocent thought, in a spontaneous moment but I started thinking about it. Air. Wow. And that’s how I started writing...

It turns out all plants need dirt. For their roots to absorb nutrition they need dirt. The beginning of the food chain begins in the dirt. Turns out that the first dirt maker for the first plants was fungi. The mushroom people. They ate hot rocks which was about the only thing there was above the shore line back then and turned them into dirt. The only life on earth was in the water for the first...