the rohn report

I’ll let someone else point out that systems based on greed will inevitably crash. It’s not my job to mention that living unsustainably on planet earth will result in turbulence. It’s up to the pundits to point out such things. They’re smart after all. They have experience in such matters. I’ll just say that it’s gonna be a wild ride. Hold on and buckle up buckaroo. If you enjoy the thrills and sp...

Honestly, lock down and covid restrictions have suited me just fine. I’m happy to stay home and be a hermit, listen to music, read and write; garden and ride my bike when I need to get out of the house. Right now I’m enjoying a tasty Cafe de Anatolia playlist. From 1:27:09. Yes I’m privileged but I worked hard for this. I did my time in the workforce, working for the man even when I was the man. T...

So I’m having this big long Facebook conversation about the evils and virtues of the vaccine. And he says Is it my right to choose not to vaccinate myself and my family? And I say Yeah it’s absolutely your right but then what is your responsibility to society knowing that you’re most infectious before you even have symptoms ? And back and forth we go searching for common ground and not finding any...

Happy Memorial Day, if you can say it that way. Here’s a special edition I published for paid subscribers a while back. It’s kind of an essay poem. With music. I like it alot so I wanted to share it with everybody. No more war. here we arein the 21st centuryfighting with each otherlike this was biblical timeslike this was the medieval agelike we were childrenarguing over a toy the toy is this worl...

So, as it turns out, we can’t experience the world at all. All we know of it is what our brain assembles out of the nuanced cacophony of electrical impulses surging along our optic nerve, thru our auditory nerve, and all the other nerves from their attendant stations on the periphery of our body. They relate to something, yes, but they make no sense until our brain paints a picture with them, crea...

Listen to this podcast on your favorite platform with the podcast app above In his famous poem, Yeats goes on about sailing the seas to ‘the holy city of Byzantium’. Once there he proposes to escape the bonds of mortality and find new life as some sort of a magical bird ‘set upon a golden bough to sing’. That’s how I read it anyways with a little help from Andrew Spacey . Byzantium of course was t...

Ever since history has been recorded, pandemics have visited their destructive power on humanity - viruses and bacteria running amok, crossing borders, seas, mountain ranges, empires, and killing massive amounts of people. Smallpox, one of the most pernicious, is (or was, it has now been eradicated following a global vaccination campaign led by the World Health Organization) a tiny little virus th...

Ah ha, I intended to do this podcast without music, unsure if people like the music I use or not. But I couldn’t manage it. When I heard this it was like, this is it! This is the rhythm of the river; or the rhythm of the natives living around the river more accurately. If you haven’t listened to the podcast version, I recommend it. It’s 11 minutes. You can download the podcast app or play it from...

A big shout out to all those who have subscribed to the rohn report. We have reached 100! And a special thank you to the paid subscribers, all 14 of you! I am deeply appreciative of your patronage. Well we finally got rain. Felt good. It rained for several hours, soaked into the ground and fed the little roots of the little arugulas and the spinach and the collards and the kale and the sweet corn....

I’m so into music. It has healing vibes. Borders, countries, language, culture all separate us and define us. In fact our identity is based on what divides us. Even though we live on one planet, we don’t think of ourselves as ‘planetarians’. Even though we’re all humans we don’t think of ourselves as human first, we think of ourselves as American, German, Swedish, Dutch, Irish, Russian, Japanese,...

Days go by and weeks go by. Years go by. They don’t stop. After awhile you’re old. Everything that has happened in your life has happened in the past and everything that is going to happen in your life is in the future. It’s just that your future is a lot shorter than your past. My perspective has changed a lot over the years from ‘ I’m going to live forever, hey how do you know I’m not? ’ to ‘ I...

Enjoy the audio version or 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 when he was a kid there were deer roaming about in the wild savannah on the other side...

I’m thinking about refugees. Four million of them from Ukraine alone in the current war, another 26 million worldwide who have sought shelter from the storm. Half of them are children. They have left their homes, their communities, their culture, their land where they lived for generations, probably, and made their way carrying a few belongings in a suitcase, clutching their children at their side...

And if it all goes up in a flash of smoke and lighting so be it, my arugula and I will be vaporized in the same mushroom cloud and our atoms will settle down somewhere else on this earth to reseed and rebuild some kind of a garden somewhere. Premier kale, lacinato kale, dwarf blue kale, champion collards, rocket arugula, bibb lettuce, spinach - I’ve got them all started in little containers filled...

Isn’t that the name of a movie? It also could be the title of the current scene playing here on planet earth as we spin around and around, slowly orbiting a medium sized star 93 million miles away known as the Sun. I just thought we should put this in context. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has wounded the whole world. It has left a gash in our collective sense of well being. It has shaken our co...

As of today, Thursday March 10, 2022, the Russian army has invaded Ukraine and occupied a significant amount of their territory. The huge military force that they assembled outside the Ukrainian border is now pretty much inside it. Close to Kyiv, the capitol and the cultural heart of the nation, a 40 mile long convoy of tanks, armored personnel carriers, missile launchers and heavy artillery waits...

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 start a new world. Of course they didn’t know what they were doing and ran into a lot of problems because it was their first time. Having a family and starting a new world and all. They tried to discipline their kids but they were wild. One wanted to start a na...

One hundred and twelve years ago the Bolshevik Revolution brought about the demise of the Russian Czar, Nicholas II, and the rise of the beleaguered working class. Communism, led by Comrade Lenin, took over and they (the workers) were all singing the national anthem together, “Arise, workers of the world, all the world’s starving and enslaved!” A mere 20 years later Joseph Stalin had taken over an...

So I’m supposed to select 6 poems for Mega Corazon in April, one for kids, plus one by a poet I admire, that’s seven poems, and perform them in the Urban 15 studios. Wow. I’m editing my book manuscript with an editor, well a friend, well she’s pretty smart. I may release it online one day if we can figure it out. Forget the publishers, I could never figure them out. My literary career is zooming....

I believe in San Antonio, that this place has an ancient and enchanted history. People have lived here for hundreds of generations, that’s for sure, thousands of years. They hunted and gathered and told their stories and sang their songs and danced their dances and lived their lives without really changing all that much and without destroying the environment they lived in. Something we could learn...

Tee tah, my lovely and groovy cat loved sleeping outside all night, even when it was cold. Now she’s gone, carried off by a coyote. Me and Kybo are left. We’re sad. Kybo meditates all day. I can only manage spurts. Move on. My life is winding down. It doesn’t last forever. I know that intellectually but that’s not the same as feeling it wind down. Like you get your spring wound up when you’re born...

A Prem Rawat quote came across my screen recently. It went something like this: ‘Gratitude is the wind that fills your sails so you can sail across this ocean’. The best I can remember. We all are sailing across this ocean, in a sense. We may be bestilled, we may be on the rocks, we may be in stormy weather or we may be sailing free and clear with a pleasant wind in our direction. I’ve experienced...

On the morning of Dec. 25, 2021, just a few weeks ago, an Ariane rocket blasted off from it’s launching pad at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana . It was carrying the most powerful space observatory ever built - the James Webb Space Telescope and was headed for a location a million miles away where the gravitational fields of the earth and the sun commingle to produce conditions just...

I suspect, but cannot prove, that the real virus affecting us is not Covid 19 but something like the winter of our discontent, some kind of dis-ease of the mind, a misplaced longing perhaps. Something is stuck in our brain. People are unhappy and yet we’re living in one of the most successful countries in the history of the world. We have conveniences that are so convenient that we only need to to...

“They keep changing the date. It used to be 2021. Now it’s 2022. I wish they would just find a number and stick to it.” “Like what number would you like?” replied Jay. “It just doesn’t matter to me, just quit changing the number. 43, 32, 1 billion 987 million 324 thousand 602 would be fine.” Paul lowered his hands from where he had been gesticulating in the air and took a slug of his Barley Brew....