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11:34

refugee status

the rohn report ·

2022/03/31

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, in search of a safe place to live. War (of course), violence, persecution and poverty are the

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5:47

While the powers that be calculate the pros and cons...

the rohn report ·

2022/03/24

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 with moist, rich garden soil, their little seed bodies poised to rise up and flourish. I’m not really

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10:35

Enter the dragon . . .

the rohn report ·

2022/03/17

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 complacency (maybe a good thing) and caused a lot of people to question their safety and security. I

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12:42

weapons of war

the rohn report ·

2022/03/10

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 to enter the city and blow it to smithereens in order to subdue the opposition. They have been stalled

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6:59

Adam and Eve and the kids

the rohn report ·

2022/03/03

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 nation and another one wanted to start a war against the nation. Always upping each other.Even

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9:46

Darkness and light and the invasion of Ukraine

the rohn report ·

2022/02/27

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 and instituted harsh laws that he thought would help modernize the nation. Instead they resulted in

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9:29

music

the rohn report ·

2022/02/24

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. Maybe I’ll be famous one day and then wish this never happened to me. Ha ha.The rohn report,

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28:35

The deep unknown history of San Antonio

the rohn report ·

2022/02/18

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. How were they able to do that? I’ve thought about it many times. It certainly is a lofty

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5:12

move on

the rohn report ·

2022/02/10

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 and everything is shiny and new and . . . then it winds down. Entropy. Move on.Countries

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6:39

Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You

the rohn report ·

2022/01/27

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 all of them.I have seen friends dwindle and diminish and disappear over the horizon, friends that I

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14:23

the James Webb Space Telescope

the rohn report ·

2022/01/20

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 right for a stable orbit around the sun. There it will ride out its days orbiting the sun and looking

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The Virus and the Second Coming of Jesus and the...

the rohn report ·

2022/01/13

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 touch a button and our garage door opens, our TV turns on, the coffee maker starts to perk, and Siri

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19:22

the Book of Changes and 2022

the rohn report ·

2022/01/06

“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. It was the newest offering at Jakob’s Brew Pub in downtown Portland. Well, more on the river side

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16:34

Happy New Year's Eve and the International Weapons Trade

the rohn report ·

2021/12/30

I wish you a happy New Year. May peace and contentment be yours. May you feel the internal feeling that everything is ok. It’s a beautiful feeling, placed there by the life force itself that gives us life. Here’s the bad news. The international weapons trade is booming.Recently, President Emmanuel Macron of France paid a visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, two of the super rich countries in the Persian Gulf. Selling weapons was on his mind. He signed a contract with

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4:37

ice skating in travis park

the rohn report ·

2021/12/23

It’s the Christmas season at Travis Park in downtown San Antonio at Jefferson and Pecan. People are out and about, having adventures with their clan. Celebrating the crisp weather, the Christmas lights, the Christmas music. Family is in from out of town, some of them can skate. Some of them can’t - the locals. Around and around they go until they find a landing spot on the railing or fall on their butt, legs splayed. Then they struggle to get up and skate again. Or what we call skating in San

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18:21

interview with Katie

the rohn report ·

2021/12/17

Katie’s place is just down the street from me in the parking lot of the Sunset Ridge Church of Christ on Brees. She just started up a month ago. Two Mexican eagles perch on the steeple and look down on the goings on. A few days after she opened, a deer walked thru the parking lot. A gnarly old wise looking oak presides over the space. It’s kind of enchanted.The music is Makambo-20132 by Geoffrey Oryema from Northern Uganda, singing in the Acholi language. It's about the LRA war that lasted for

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7:48

Tis the Christmas Season

the rohn report ·

2021/12/09

Christmas started long, long ago. Well, with the birth of Jesus of course. Jolly old St. Nick bringing presents for the children and the adults celebrating with mistletoe and wreaths and Christmas trees is a more recent development. Originally it was a take-off on the Roman festival of Saturnalia, the winter solstice, and of course the solstice has been celebrated since forever, ever since humans noticed the darkest night and the sun return. That meant Spring was coming. It was a big

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5:30

a poem

the rohn report ·

2021/12/02

i thought i’d write a poem about good newson my weekly newsletternews with letters and a letter with the newsthere’s enough of the negative stuff don’t you think so ?every day it assaults usmore than enough to last a lifetime how can you build a life or a culturewith only bad news ??as if the monotony of every day’sbad news informs us of our placein the scheme of thingsand we buckle right down and get to itbad news keeps us grounded so we don’t fly off all over the placeand become anarchistsconsider

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14:49

it is good to be alive

the rohn report ·

2021/11/25

Of all the issues that occupy my mind in the course of a day . . . this one rarely finds its way to the top. Among the sports scores and the virus surge and the war in Yemen and the Christmas sales and the minutiae of my life, it seldom occurs to me - gees, I am alive. It’s Fall and the leaves are turning. A new season appears and I am here to witness it. When I was born, it was the Fall. I don’t remember the brisk breezes or the tangy coolness in the air of the Michigan weather but I’m sure I

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15:33

COP 26 - the climate conference

the rohn report ·

2021/11/18

Wow. Human beings. Something else, man. Really. I mean how did we get to be so stupid and so smart at the same time? That’s something I truly do not understand. I have asked University professors this question. They didn’t know either.The COP 26 Climate Change Conference just concluded in Glasgow. That’s in Scotland. I guess they figured for some reason they would have a better chance of coming up with something if they were in Scotland. Didn’t work. They didn’t come up with diddley

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