the rohn report

On account of traveling in Mexico, I’ll be offering re-runs for the next two weeks. Adam and Eve and the kids debuted 2 years ago, on March 3, 2022. I performed it for Megacorazon, the celebration of poetry that Urban 15 sponsors each April. Here it is again. So, there was a girl and a boy. Their names were Adam and Eve. They fell in love and got into a relationship. They wanted to have kids and s...

Cans and bottles and boxes and plastic encased display cards with the good stuff clearly seen inside but thoroughly protected - our products come well packaged. No one has touched it, pristine, sterile is the connotation I suppose. ‘New’ and ‘packaging’ are bound together in the modern day buying experience. You buy them both. Otherwise you wouldn’t really trust the product. If your Amazon order a...

Cars, cars, cars. Cars are everywhere. In the city they scurry about like giant insects swarming the streets, swelling the parking lots and congesting the intersections. They speed across the country on interstates and connect distant points. They contain us and define us, they give us a sanctuary and shelter. David Byrnes’ famous quote from his movie ‘True Stories’ comes to mind. “Expressways are...

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in old Imperial Russia to an old aristocratic family (the Tolstoys) and grew up on the family estate 120 miles south of Moscow. They had serfs and everything. His mother died when he was two and his father died when he was seven so he was pretty much brought up by his aunt who educated him at home. Aunt Aleksandra. At the age of 16 he was off to university in Kazan, as...

I’ve been watching TV football lately. Alot. Probably more than is healthy for me. First it was the college playoffs (with my team, the Michigan Wolverines, winning it all) then the NFL playoffs started up with my team, the Detroit Lions (who are only about 50 miles from Ann Arbor the home of the Wolverines), going almost to the Super Bowl before losing to the powerful San Francisco 49ers. The gam...

it’s a great idea but i haven’t done it yet / i’m scared / sex is an unruly subject / it goes deep in the psyche / the labyrinthic forest and the clear stream / the vast sky and the soft earth / these things we knew when our sex was new / playful and friendly / virgin if i asked people they might react in unpredictable ways / like repressed or expressed or freaked out about it / traumatized or rom...

that was one of the craziest days in awhile sunday night / bitter cold moved inthe cat i was supposed to trap and go get fixeddisappearedmy pipes froze i didn’t know which one i should feel most anxiousabout :: the possibly frozen cat under my house orthe possibility of my water pipes exploding when itthaws and the ice disappears leaving a 3/4 inch gapinggap in my water pipe with water rushing out...

In ancient Egypt cats were gods. According to their public art and stuff. Here’s a statue of a cat goddess. There is a cat on this royal sarcophogus. Bas relief chiseled into stone. What’s that about? Cats were not only worshipped but when they died, they were embalmed, given their own coffin and buried in a cat cemetery. There was definitely something going on with cats back there in the old BC d...

A woman reading my poetry book in the cafe. She was writing in her notebook so I spoke to her and asked her if she was writing poetry. She said no she was writing reflections to take it to a deeper level, her understanding of herself and stuff. Yeah I do that. If someone is reading a book I’ll walk up to them and ask what they’re reading. Sincerely. Invariably they will share their book with me. G...

We did our Winter Solstice celebration in the backyard, me and Megan and Brittany. We choose our runes from the bag that Megan held in her enchanted hand. I got a straight line. That means be patient and let it unfold. That’s what I remember anyways. There are so many healing modalities that we have forgotten about or haven’t discovered yet, not just modernized medicine, the big business model. He...

Sweetly singing o'er the plains, And the mountains in reply Echoing their joyous strains Gloria, in excelsis Deo! Gloria, in excelsis Deo! I love Christmas music. Gloria, in excelsis Deo! means ‘Glory to God in the highest’. That’s what the angels said. Sing, choirs of angels. Sing in exultation. Sing, all ye citizens of Heaven above! it says in another Christmas Carol. Who were they exactly, sing...

the golden bough gold doubloonsthe golden calf we treasure allgold and now the ground islittered with it oh the green carpetoh blown fusefallen leavesdesiccating desiregoneyellow green and redrubies and emeralds and amethyst oh green caughtin the netof fire’s desirespun down into the filter bedthe bosom refugeof mother nature existence endedas a leaf and atransformation begunas dirt oh higher ones...

I live in the Terrell Heights neighborhood a few miles from downtown San Antonio. It’s a groovy place. We have our own playground/park, our own little business center, groovy curvy streets with names like Greenwich and Devonshire (where the hobbits live) and a lovely little community garden (where the gnomes live). Most of the residents (like me) live in single story residences built after the war...

‘What we want makes us more susceptible to what we don't need ’ . That’s what I realized today and decided to write about it. Kind of appropriate for the season don’t you think? We buy things to celebrate baby Jesus’ birthday. What? Black Friday is gone but the Christmas sales endure. Cyber Monday, Flash Sale. Signs decorated with Christmas decorations, red and green, proclaiming 15% off on everyt...

Once again winter comes and makes everything cold. Hey I don’t mind, I’m from Michigan where winters are arduous affairs, long they endure and when they finally give way - joy. The snow melts and the flowers come up thru the ground and appear as little fairy lamps or something, little maidens maybe. The cold isn’t very cold but it’s not warm. That’s noticeable. Stick your head out the door and fee...

First you are born, then you live, then you die. If you haven’t died yet then you are still alive. Unless you haven’t been born yet in which case you probably wouldn’t be reading this. These obvious facts are known to all but rarely discussed. They’re considered importune, impolite and awkward. A bit of a downer too. I’d like to discuss them now. Literature, that unique human expression, I mean bi...

emptiness / like this heavy grey sky it’s not badno need to fill up the emptinesswith thoughts can you imagine a picture of nothing ??just a frameprobly not because nothing is somethingit’s blank space / it’s the canvas before the paint is appliedbefore our minds became civilizedour heart all the time not the one that pumps bloodthe one that wants to feel gooda simple singular desire it’s hard to...

When I was but a young lad, back in 1970, I embarked on a journey to see the world. I was untraveled but ready for adventure and whatever came my way. We gathered our resources, me and my buddy, bought our backpacks, a lightweight tent, cooking stove, sleeping bags, collected some extra clothes and all of our available cash — in my case about $300, and headed out. Youthful naiveté can sometimes su...

‘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 sayin. Everybody has a different trigger but music does contain healing vibes and a way of...

My friend came to visit me and we went for a bike ride. Since we are not on an ocean or anywhere near an ocean we had to ride on dry land. We went to the sacred oak tree cafe and looked out upon the city. The top of the hill is right next to San Pedro Springs and the San Pedro creek which emanates from it, except both are dry. They used to emanate. I showed her the strange incarnations of the cree...

Is it because it’s in the Fall, when things are dying and returning to the earth? Is it the stormy weather that accompanies the changing of the season? Where did this spooky holiday come from anyway? It has its origins, no doubt, in some medieval tradition. I don’t know, I haven’t looked it up, but seems kind of medieval, gothic atleast. My neighbors across the street have set up a graveyard on th...

Featured in today’s BBC online is this article: The weird sound from the early Universe . Scientists figured out back in 2005 that there had been a primordial hum permeating the universe since shortly after it was born. It spread out at half the speed of light thru the plasma (ionized gas) which was all there was of the universe at the time - a deep bass note with a wave length of 450,000 light ye...

I want to write about my dad. His name was John. John, Rohn, get it? I imagine him in his aspirational phase: young, newly married, intent on raising a family and finding a congregation to minister unto, his ordination in hand. He did find a place, in Hudson, Michigan. A Baptist church in need of a pastor. I don’t know why. They hired him on and that was his first time. Being a pastor and all, doi...

I know it sounds unbelievable. One time I opened the back door to let her in and I distinctly heard her say “ankyoo ” in her meowy voice. I mean she could have come in the cat door but she wanted me to open it for her. Another time, just a few weeks ago, I was sitting in my meditation chair on the front porch having my quiet time and Kybo was meowing around looking for strokes. Her voice had a ple...

Stone pillars, T-shaped megaliths 15 feet high, quarried and carved out of the limestone rock with flint tools and set in circles around . . . what? I can only guess, now 11,000 years later. That’s how long ago this place was built. 11,000 years ago they hadn’t even invented farming yet, not really, maybe a few gardens here and there, by chance. They wouldn’t build the pyramids or Stonehenge for a...