the rohn report

They’re designed for it. Even with your eyes closed you can see light. Even with your hands covering your closed eyes you can see light. Some kind of light. If you close both of your eyes and cover one eye with one hand and pet your cat with the other hand you will notice the difference between one covered closed eye and one uncovered closed eye. The purpose of these experiments is to demonstrate...

This is my front lawn as of Thursday afternoon, August 31, 2023 after a long hot dry summer which doesn’t seem to be over yet. In the Spring it looked like this. We had rain and the sunflowers activated. Their seeds had been lying on the ground all year, waiting for their chance. Hundreds of them sprouted and grew, tall and proud. Many times I stopped to look at them, their faces uplifted to the s...

There was a time not too long ago when I thought I wanted to be a nomad and travel around in my van. Van life. I bought a van and started equipping it to live in while I traveled around in my nomadic life. Now I’m driving a Prius, a city car, and the van is for sale. The thought of traveling around in a van seems really awkward and arduous to me now. Of course if I had a fully equipped van with al...

It’s going to rain. This is what I promised myself when I saw the 10 day forecast on my computer. The heat wave over. The obstinate dominance of the Sun finally subsumed by something more nuanced - the rain. And now for something completely different - cooler weather and rain. I sure hope it rains. It could still go all along outside us and miss us completely. I’ve seen it before. On weather radar...

I just went to the mailbox, walked over hot asphalt in bare feet to get there, and it was all junk mail. A flyer entitled ‘2023 PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX BILL INFORMATION’. All caps. ‘Snooze and save’ said another flyer, even larger, with a beautiful woman making a bed, all lower case. I think it’s a furniture store. There was a GIANT movie ticket, or facsimile thereof, 8”x12”, just to make sure you g...

Welcome to Barista Interviews. This is the third in the series. Katie from Rose Hip Coffee and Ali also from Rose Hip Coffee were also featured. Baristas really do play a mythic role in society. They have been playing their role, serving up the drinks, talking to the patrons, ever since the time of Gilgamesh in old Mesopotamia when he encountered Shiduri, the bar maid, on the beach at the edge of...

The Ancient Book of Magic Secrets is finally available. It took long enough. It’s available in hardcover or paperback here . I know, Amazon is an insidious and capricious corporate entity. They’re also the most convenient platform to publish on. Or atleast the only one I could manage. So anyways, there it is. It’s about being human, or atleast about how we have been human. Sometimes comically, som...

paid subscribers First of all I’d like to say thank you to all the paid subscribers of the rohn report. I’m deeply grateful, and I just turned payments back on : ) I feel less disabled and more in a rhythm of writing. Typing speed is back to half of what it was, carpal tunnel symptoms are abating. There are 14 paid subscribers, if you’re curious, and 169 regular free subscribers. Most of the rohn...

I keep hearing about lonely elderly people. Living alone in a house with no spouse or kids. Just holding on. It’s in the news. In the Netherlands they have a special check out line at the grocery store that goes slow so the elderly lonely people can have someone to talk to. It was on Facebook. Can you imagine that? To arrive at your old age and discover yourself all alone? I can. That’s how my lif...

Once again I have nothing for the newsletter. I have spent the last week in an agonizing exercise of futility trying to marry my pages word document to KDP’s publishing platform. My head hurts just thinking about it, but it may finally be bearing fruit. ‘ The Ancient Book of Magic Secrets ’ wants to enter the life of the world. It’s been 8 years since the project was born of fire and rain and a de...

Avdiivka, before the war, was 30,000 people living in a comfy bedroom community on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine. Then came the invasion of February 2022 and Avdiivka ended up on the frontlines. It was bombed and then bombed some more. Donetsk was occupied - the Russian army just a few miles away. Now, a year later, it’s pretty much been reduced to rubble. They’re under threat of attack every...

it’s thursday and i’ve got nothingno sweet epiphanies / no exciting adventures i try to write every week if just to process my own inner journeycalibrate my perspective with the reality of thingsthat’s a useful exercisebut lately it’s been mostly resting and healing and not even bike ridingthat’s where i get alot of the themes and sub-themes - from up on my bikei miss it / i need the inspiration h...

part 1 :: visiting I remember when I was a little kid, a rug rat actually. Television was not well established yet and even if you had one there were only 3 channels, if the weather was right. Anyways my parents would take us kids out visiting to a neighbor’s house for the purpose of having a conversation. There we would sit around the coffee table in the living room and talk. The adults would sit...

Pain has a voice. That’s what I’ve learned. Or rather my body has a voice, many voices and pain is one of them. Carpal tunnel syndrome squeezes the space in the wrist where the nerves and blood vessels pass thru into the hand. It can cause numbness, tingling, muscle weakness and pain - especially at night. One night I was lying in bed with my hand brace on feeling the pain traveling all over my ha...

A book is a book. I mean it’s only a book. But for people who like books it can be a life changing experience. I’m preparing to publish a book and hopefully it will change people’s lives. It changed mine. After six years of writing, two years of looking for a publisher, innumerable edits and revisions - it’s ready. Here’s the cover picture. It’s a detail from the White Shaman painting from west Te...

It’s spring! With lots of rain and the wild flowers are wild. Hey that’s not a sentence but I don’t care. It’s spring with lots of rain. And the wild flowers are wild. Here in my neighborhood, a friendly suburb about 6 miles north of the downtown, lots of homeowners are practicing wildscaping. That’s the practice where you give the wildflowers a chance to bewild and do their thing. Front yards and...

This is a replay from October 4, 2021. It was only for paid subscribers and I wanted to reprise it partly because not many people saw it and partly because I don’t have the new newsletter finished yet and partly because it’s super cool and I’m still dealing with this stuff, big time. I have made additions and alterations to the original post. Here we go . . . This exciting edition of the rohn repo...

the mighty vision Envision a world where all the things essential to life are readily available for everybody: food, water, shelter, healthcare. No one is deprived. Envision a world based on the idea that human beings are more important than corporations. Envision a world where healthcare is not a product but a gift. Something we can give each other and ourselves. Of course professional health car...

If you were a bug this would be the Amazon rain forest. For my cat Betos it’s a place to hide and hang out and meditate. For me it’s a bountiful cornucopia of fecundity. For my neighbors it’s probably a reason to be annoyed. I do think I need to thin it out a little, clear a path to the street, but it bothers me to pull out anything that’s green and growing. There are hundreds of sunflowers here,...

Matcha It’s basically green tea ( Camellia sinensis ) that’s been shaded for 3 or 4 weeks before being harvested. That pumps up the theanine , an amino acid with health benefits and the caffeine, well we all know what that is. Matcha latte is my drink of choice at the cafe these days. It’s made by whisking the bright green powder made from the leaves (with the stems and veins removed) into hot wat...

Wow, here we are in the middle of now. Everything that has come before is history and everything that’s to come is next. It’s like we’re standing still on an escalator or one of those moving walkways like they have in airports. Our past is a long string of episodes strung out behind us, our future is slowly coming into view and we are standing still in now. In another sense the future doesn’t real...

I rolled down the hill from my house the other day on my bike and encountered the grand opening of ‘One Another Cafe’ in the church parking lot. It was a positive happening: parents with their kids, local neighbors gathered round, the friendly baristas inside the trailer ready to take my order and the sun just beginning to rise through a cloudy sky. It was so pleasant and positive that I wondered...

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.” wrote Vincent in a letter to his brother Theo. Then I will stop, Vincent, and warm myself at your fire. I know you had great struggles and turmoils and equally great transformations and victories. I know that you came into your highest powers while the depression and madness worked o...

Here we are in the modern world. Our storytelling is all electronic, pretty much these days, unless you’re waiting in line at the cafe then somebody might say “Is that your bike?” and you would says “yes”, so pleased that someone would notice and embark on a story of your own, something short and pithy hopefully, and they respond with their own story, how they rode their bike 43 mph one time down...

The San Pedro Creek originates at the San Pedro Spring a couple of miles from downtown San Antonio. It has been a special place, a sacred site for thousands of years. It still is. Actually there is more than one spring in the 46 acre San Pedro Park, but most of the time they’re dry. They don’t flow. Only if there is a major rain event will the springs fill with water and spill out into the creek b...