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the rohn report

dissertations on almost anything about being human / contemporary and humorous observations / bulletins and notifications / tips and quips / sermons rohn.substack.com

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8:30

john and rohn do thanksgiving

the rohn report ·

2024/11/29

So me and my buddy John decided to go to the Thanksgiving dinner downtown at the Convention Center, being the lonely solo acts that we are with nothing else to do for Thanksgiving. That’s kind of what it’s for, I guess, the Street People show up, families, all kinds of people, 25,000 of them according to the official website. That’s like a football game almost. Actually, Thanksgiving is in the tradition of the ancient Savory Feast of Autumn - when all the crops are in and before the cold winds

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7:21

you are not alone

the rohn report ·

2024/11/21

You have yourself. If that doesn’t sound like sarcasm or a platitude.Are you bored with yourself or are you good company?Believe me it has taken me decades to understand this concept. I’m still working on it.You are not alone, even Echo Other explains that.I listen to alot of music. It soothes my soul. It has healing energy - like talking to a friend or doing yoga on the rug.Mostly I find my music on YouTube. It’s detailed and described, primed and driven alogorithmically, a source of visual

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8:00

yeah !!

the rohn report ·

2024/11/14

I’m copying a fellow Substacker’s post here because it was exhilaratingly entertaining. I knew at once it was going to be good when she began:We stood in the grass, an infinite moment or two—my bare feet on morning dew, Kitty Nova wearing her best fur—and watched the world, more ears than eyes, more nosing than knowing. I tune myself to her tail-conducted symphony, discordant human notes relaxing agenda, and together we go nowhere and arrive now-here.This is how Kimberly Warner begins her post, In

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7:56

taking a break . . .

the rohn report ·

2024/11/07

. . . to process what just happened watching the early returns on PBS one of the commentators said “America is on trial and we’re about to find out who we are.” the verdict is in / this is who we are they kept saying ‘this election is about the economy’ but that never felt right to me / what it's really about is the environment that we're so intent on destroying / what it’s really about is war and nuclear weapons and the military industrial complex - that dark secret inside the american psyche /

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8:45

Halloween and election politics

the rohn report ·

2024/10/31

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. They believe whatever they want to believe that they see on tv. Also scary.TV ads made for

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7:31

'from the north to the south'

the rohn report ·

2024/10/24

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

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9:35

truth-speaking

the rohn report ·

2024/10/17

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. Honest, feeling the other person, perceiving their presence and acknowledging their life in this

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9:36

fire and rain

the rohn report ·

2024/10/09

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 Carolina, far from where she made landfall. People are still digging out and drying off from that

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23:13

Once upon a time in Mexico

the rohn report ·

2024/10/03

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 famous for. They proliferate there because of all the rainfall that falls on that flat limestone

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18:06

Tales from the crib

the rohn report ·

2024/09/26

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 when he was a kid there were deer roaming about in the wild savannah on the other side of Eisenhauer Road

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10:04

viruses r us

the rohn report ·

2024/09/19

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 other bacteria. Yeah, gene swapping. That’s what they do, that’s their lifestyle, if they have a

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10:04

fall

the rohn report ·

2024/09/12

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. This is Mars, fourth planet from the sun and freezing cold. There may be life there but hiding

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16:41

It's called Broadway

the rohn report ·

2024/09/05

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 and interact in an interesting way and create a shelter or a habitat for even more things to

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35:21

wildlife rescue to the rescue

the rohn report ·

2024/08/29

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 met her.One day me and my housemate found a baby raccoon wandering around the neighborhood. It’s mother

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12:19

A Jungle Story

the rohn report ·

2024/08/22

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. There are millions of microbes living in the soil and the water, they are part of the jungle too.

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7:55

new / packaging

the rohn report ·

2024/08/15

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 plastic encased display cards with the good stuff clearly seen inside but thoroughly protected - our

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11:03

laughter from the monk's cell

the rohn report ·

2024/08/08

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 up with. Lamentations or laughter? Ha, ha. Is there a book of the Bible named Laughter? There

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13:59

carbon based life forms

the rohn report ·

2024/08/01

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 elements, it often forms large complex molecules with repeating patterns. That’s called catenation and

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15:12

Are we doomed?

the rohn report ·

2024/07/25

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 banned. There are, however, 12,000 nuclear weapons in the arsenals of various countries (9 to be exact)

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8:44

This life is so cool

the rohn report ·

2024/07/18

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, that much I was aware of, but I wasn’t completely asleep and I wasn’t completely awake. I wanted to

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