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the rohn report

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newsletter

the rohn report ·

2025/10/30

what’s important is the experience not how you get there was my wise adage for the morning. I realized that while doing my yoga. Oh yeah, people have all kinds of different religions but they’re all searching for that experience. The one you can’t say what it is but only feel. Which is why there are so many religions - trying to say it.This is the golden era for American humor with shows like King of the Hill, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Daily Show and many

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14:48

dreams

the rohn report ·

2025/10/17

I’m in the back of a van traveling down the road. The two people in the front are friends of mine. I’m in a strange sort of half awake, half dream state - like I know I’m probably dreaming but I’m enjoying it so I don’t care. We stop at an old run down gas station, it looks abandoned. I get out and walk around back. There’s a bunch of people camping out on a large concrete slab and somehow it makes me happy. I’m aware that civilization has collapsed and we’re all living in a post-apocalyptic

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10:37

life unwind2

the rohn report ·

2025/10/02

The spirit of writing hasn’t come upon me lately, no more than the rain has visited this parched terrain.The urgency to explain or declaim is missing somehow, instead I’m watching TV football and gazing out the south facing windows at the sun filled front yard. There are deep slanting shadows attached to the trees even while their leaves shine brightly. I know soon they will grow dim. Soon it will be night. And then morning again.The game is mildly amusing but mostly as background for my

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10:37

life unwind

the rohn report ·

2025/10/02

The spirit of writing hasn’t come upon me lately, no more than the rain has visited this parched terrain.The urgency to explain or declaim is missing somehow, instead I’m watching TV football and gazing out the south facing windows at the sun filled front yard. There are deep slanting shadows attached to the trees even while their leaves shine brightly. I know soon they will grow dim. Soon it will be night. And then morning again.The game is mildly amusing but mostly as background for my

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10:23

news 2

the rohn report ·

2025/09/19

I’m sitting here with two books of poetry open - ‘failure’ by Philip Schultz and ‘Walking to Martha’s Vineyard’ by Franz Wright. Two white boys alright. Just finished ‘A War with Grandpa’, a young (very young) adult novel by Robert Kimmel Smith. Why he needs 3 names I don’t know. Maybe because there are so many Robert Smiths? Anyways, this is for my 1st grade mentoring.On the Kindle app on my phone I’ve got ‘The Books of Jacob’ Olga Tokarczuk, 1,000 pages of it if it had pages, it just has

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10:06

fall

the rohn report ·

2025/09/12

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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13:33

glad I'm here

the rohn report ·

2025/09/05

. . . although sometimes I feel kind of stuck. I’ve created a biosphere and a ranchito and feel responsible for the animals and plants that live here. The dragonflies darting around above the hydrilla in the old cement swimming pool (now a fish pond) and the bats that fly thru the air in the evening skimming the water, the orange and white gold fish who now are as large as small carp which I guess they are and the hundreds of tiny minnowy fish that swim among them. The cardinal couple who come

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11:09

light maker

the rohn report ·

2025/08/24

When I woke up this morning, White Tail, the yellow cat with the white tail, was on the night stand monitoring my movements, calibrating. Is he going to get up and feed us now? Dawn had not yet arrived, we were still in the realm of darkness but I could see his shape and infer his presence. He had spent the night somewhere on my bed, curled in among the sheets. When I sat up, he purred. When I picked up the phone, it lit up. The room became softly illuminated. I had created light. I imagined

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9:38

Summer

the rohn report ·

2025/08/13

Summer has dropped like a heavy beam into my front yard. It’s palpable. Hot and dry. The earth is sun baked, cracks appear. The sunflowers that grew like a forest 6 or 8 feet high now bow their heads and mourn. Their roots are shrunken and shriveled in the dirt. The microbes are screaming. I can hear them almost. Everyone is miserable which is why I’m watering the yard this morning before the sun gets up high in the sky, give the guys some respite. I’m sure any remaining bugs appreciate it

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19:55

mocking jay / cob houses / peace education

the rohn report ·

2025/07/31

1.I met a girl in the cafe reading a book. I think it was Merit, the cafe, yeah next to the bike shop. No, that’s right it was in Charis Park. She was there with her friend under the tree. Her friend was also doing something creative, oh yeah she was painting on a framed canvas. I couldn’t see what it was. Anyways I went over to where they were and said “Excuse me do you mind if I ask you what you’re reading?” She looked up and gave me a smile and said “I’m reading the Hunger Games, part one

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8:51

outside in the cafe

the rohn report ·

2025/07/23

cute baby with catshad to cut it offrejoin my body andmy breath surroundedby a worldlooks calm and serenebut i know beyond theblue is crazy outer spaceendless airless darkness unlessyou’re near a star or have aflashlightwe are protected fromthis awesome terror by our gentle light blue sky with a few clouds floating thruwhat can be more peacefulheaven above and earthbelow and never the twainshall meetunless you’re a human beingthen you can bridge the gapyou are the bridge andthe gap is your longing

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12:34

> my book >>

the rohn report ·

2025/07/17

Ten years ago I made a solemn pledge to write a book, publish it and introduce it to the world. The pledge really was to myself, something I had to do to regain my own sanity or more accurately my own inner peace. I don’t think I was insane. That was the one clear thing in my mind. Otherwise I was pretty much wounded and in need of healing. Writing my book was the healing.It took me six years to get it down, to get all the words in place like I envisioned but it finally happened. I looked at

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5:48

technology is wonderful

the rohn report ·

2025/07/03

you can trip digital switches far away on some server connected to your phone by wifi / fiber optics / satellite communications / it comes out of the sky like rain / we can ‘halloo’ from the other side of the world and say ‘have a nice day’ as if they were sitting right next to us at the cafewe can peer into the mystery of ancient archaeology and read the current news on our card shaped handheld device / we can take pictures and send them to friends without developing them at the drugstore / we can

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4:01

The unspeakable name and the beginning of God

the rohn report ·

2025/06/26

From what I heard the old ancient Hebrew priests considered the name of God too holy to speak or more accurately it was unspeakable. The human tongue could not utter it.But how do you talk about something without giving it a name? The old Hebrew priests were into talking about it. So they came up with Yahweh, spelled with no consonants just YHWH. The secret name of God spelled out in a unpronounceable word. What they were really trying to say, if I got my story straight, is that the name of

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7:11

no more hate no more fear

the rohn report ·

2025/06/15

What is it about politics that brings out the least cooperative, most combative part of us? We divide up into clans with our own colors, our own logos our own slogans. And then we argue and fight and strategize how to attack and defeat the other party/person whoever they may be.We could discuss the issues and find solutions in a cooperative, constructive way with benefits obvious for everyone. That’s also a possibility. Isn’t that what we’re trying to do with our politics, find solutions, solve

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16:48

Into the deep woods

the rohn report ·

2025/06/05

I got this title from fellow Substack writer, James Roberts. He writes a newsletter called Into the Deep Woods and when I saw it it was like, heck yeah, I want to write about that too. So I started right up. He’s posting from the Cambrian Mountains of Wales with its lovely dells and streams and standing stones, I’m posting from the outskirts of downtown San Antonio in what used to be a forest but is now a city. It used to be quite a nice forest, actually, extending for miles on either side of the

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8:55

full fluorescence / sweet epiphany

the rohn report ·

2025/05/20

It’s summer and the heat is back. The sun rolls up the overcast morning sky like a rug and by noon it’s blazing away undeterred, unfettered, indefatigable and any other descriptive word you might find that mean yikes watch out, it’s the sun blasting away in the sky with unregulated intensity. We live on the edge of the desert, well we used to live on the edge of the desert, I think we live in the desert now. It moved, the city didn’t. This is all to say it doesn’t rain it just pours down

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9:46

The Story of the Bog Filter

the rohn report ·

2025/05/08

I have a biosphere in my backyard. It’s like a miniature nature preserve, like a natural paradise. I’m proud of it. It gives me comfort and solace. The fish pond with the overhanging Willow and the deep green of the Groovy Nook with its small ponds back in the corner and the Hackberries and the big Pecan and the brown cedar fence surrounding it all are the main elements. And the Bog Filter. The Bog Filter is the heart and soul of this little paradise. Here the water from the pond circulates

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26:27

Interview with Mimi Allin: walking 17,000 miles for love

the rohn report ·

2025/05/01

I had a chance to host Mimi on Warm Showers recently. It was a revelatory experience and so much fun. She’s on a mission. How do we heal the violence in our world? How do we heal the violence and fear inside ourselves? Well here’s Mimi’s way. Click on the play button above. These are the shoes she was wearing when she arrived in my driveway after walking from Phoenix. I thought they were a true work of art. Her foot tattoos make a complete circle. Something cosmic about that.Meeting

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6:10

a singularity

the rohn report ·

2025/04/24

Where did you and me and the entirety of everything come from?God made it is an easy out but doesn’t really explain anything. Where did God come from? Well, God is an eternal infinite being that was never created. Just believe. We’re not really getting anywhere. According to the ‘scientists’, those consigned with the duties of figuring everything out in a rational knowable way, it all came from a very small, infinitely small and infinitely dense point called a singularity. The idea of a

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