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the rohn report
by rohn bayes
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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what happens when you die?
I don’t know. It’s unknowable. People have lots of beliefs, explanations, theories but that’s ofcourse different from knowing. If it is true that we live onafter we diethen how long If it is truethat our souls go onwhen we pass onthen how long on and onon and on says the song featured in the...
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The Sufis in Yemen, Gilgamesh in Mosul
It’s a well known myth as the story of coffee goes - one day a goat herder in Ethiopia by the name of Khaldi (this was hundreds of years ago) was out with his herd and noticed that his goats had become frisky after eating the red berries from a bush that grew nearby. So of course he tried them…
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planting corn in the front yard
Yup, I’m planting corn. Put it in on the full moon of early September, punched a little hole in the earth with my thumb and pushed them in there, an inch and a half underground. They were watered the very next day by a gentle rain. I got the seeds (technically kernels) from a neighbor who had 12...
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hymn
hymn is a poem i published in 2018 / I wrote it to finish off my book ‘what i want to say to you 29 poems’ / bring it home in a crescendo / show off my poetic ability / my stream of consciousness jack kerouac alan ginsberg howl type muse infused walt whitmanish voice / leaves of grass growing on…
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gnomes in the treehouse
Well I really don’t know what to write about. I’ve been holed up in my hermitage, my mystic cabin in the woods listening to music and imagining a better world. One where we don’t have to kill everything to have a prosperous life. Imagining might be a crucial part of building it. “Un mundo quepan...
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true nature
No sense in arguing the point but if you want to know the true nature of something look at its origin - where did it come from? Before it became anything else it was itself. It’s not like things start off being something they’re not and then become what they are. And so I submit to you, dear...
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The Spirit Within
San Antonio is a city of murals. This is the newest mural to join the tribe. It’s called ‘The Spirit Within’. You can find it downtown on the wall of the Market Square building on West Commerce across from Milam Park. It portrays a jaguar eating a taco, among other things, and evokes the spirit…
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babies and dogs
is what i’m trying to saysitting in the cafewith the trees and the peopleand the sky and the morning and everything and the micro-mycelium undergroundconnecting it alland the trees and the peopleand the sky and the cloudswe’re all connectedand the smallest organism of allis tying it all together…
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Aztec days
To the Aztecs the days were gods. Yep. And the Catholics too. Each day was named for a saint. That’s why they call this place San Antonio because it was Saint Anthony’s day when they held the first mass here. On a rock by the river probably or next to the Spring which was already consecrated by…
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love and light
When I first moved to San Antonio in the mid-seventies (1970’s) it was to join up with the City of Love and Light, an association formed in the aftermath of the sixties, the Age of Aquarius and all that. The founding principle was that peace was possible in our world if people found inner peace...
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phones
I got a phone. It’s an iphone 11 Pro Max. Not because I’m a pro, just because I need a bigger screen. These little gadgets are amazing. Mine measures 6 1/4 inches by 3 1/8 inches by 5/16 of an inch thick - barely a quarter of an inch. Smaller than a box of crayons (8 count). It weighs just under…
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the man who fell to earth
I’ve started to realize that I kind of live like an alien in my little space pod on planet Earth. It seems to be a theme with me lately. Aliens. I watched The Hail Mary Project. I read The Humans a novel by Matt Haig. I listened to an interview with David Bowie which I cannot now find and started...
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adventure
We are designed for adventure. We were made for it. It’s a basic human need. In fact if we’re not having adventures of some sort or other we’re probably bored and sad. Maybe mentally ill. We have vicarious adventures on TV: sports, movies, even the stupid news is some sort of absurd adventure.…
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the dweebil at the center of the jungle
Welcome to my private jungle. I am ensconced in a cabin at the center of a quarter acre plot in a suburban neighborhood of San Antonio. Outside my window, the cardinal, red as a flame, flits thru the branches of the hackberry looking for tasty berries. The foliage, meshed and merged into every...
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fly away with me
all everything is whatever it isand that’s the truthlet me be pragmatic herewe don’t know about it sometimesbut it’s still theretake music for examplesometimes you don’t hear itbut it’s still thereeverything is always everywherei think that’s what i thinkto keep the tunes going you have to be in...
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writing is good for you
The act of writing is good for you. I love writing. I’m not happy unless I’m writing something. Not for long anyways. I write on a keyboard, I write on voice recorder on my phone (dictation), I tap out messages on the tiny touch screen, I write on grocery store receipts, I write on napkins...
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The amazing life of Fela Kuti . . .
. . . the latest entry in the biography series featuring van Gogh, Prem Rawat, Leo Tolstoy, William Bradford, God, Lynn Margulis, Quetzalcoatl, Bad Bunny and me. I first got interested in Fela Kuti listening to the 12 episode Higher Ground podcast, Fela Kuti, Fear No Man. Man, that blew my mind....
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Conversation with Sarah
Welcome to the rohn report - Conversation with Sarah. She is a neighbor, a friend, an activist and a delightful and wise person. She’s very involved in the neighborhood where I live which is why I wanted to interview her. The Farmer’s Market at Charis Park here at Brees and Emporia in San Antonio...
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"Clouds are not spheres
and lightning does not travel in a straight line.” from ‘Chaos’ by James Gleick. Chaos theory is the idea that behind normal ordinary life is chaos, this is how the universe works, unpredictable, random, but behind the chaos is an elegant, purposeful ‘energy’ that is barely knowable but upon…
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horizon
The horizon of the earth looks like a flat line until you get farther away. When you get into outer space it actually becomes a ball, a complete circle. It’s surrounded by cold, dark, empty space sprinkled with stars. Negative space it’s called in the art world. Humans (as far as we know) had…
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Where are we now?
The Europeans initially thought well he probly won’t get elected. Then it was well, you know, how bad can it be, maybe it won’t be that bad, then it was, well it’ll be over someday. Nobody lives forever. Then it was like . . . where are we now? Phase 3? Or is it 4. And what happens next, now that...
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Your Brain
Can you ascertain all that is happening in your immediate world? From birds flying by to the micro-organisms in your gut to the flow of thoughts in your brain to the clouds floating by overhead (assuming you are outside)? No. It’s pretty much impossible to be aware of everything but still the…
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the nature pool
With the dawn comes the rain and the grumbling thunder. I’ve been waiting for this. Concentric circles fill the nature pool. The swimming fish circle and leap. By full light the rain has mostly gone, everything is placid and smooth again. The Holly trees are budding. Spring is here. Spring is…
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an epidemic of epidemics
There is an epidemic of loneliness and isolation among the elderly. There is an epidemic of depression among the teenagers and adolescents, even suicide. There’s an epidemic of homelessness - people who can’t afford a place to live or aren’t mentally stable enough to participate in a society…
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Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl halftime show
Well if you haven’t heard about it by now . . . I guess you missed it. Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance was seen by 135 million people in 200 countries. It felt like a cultural revolution. The whole show was in Spanish, remarkable in itself for American television, and recognized the...
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before the dawn
It’s darkest before the dawn. That’s what the saying says and I guess it’s true, for a condemned man anyways. But hung at the first sign of light would make it so and for the rest of us, condemned or not (and who isn’t ultimately) it’s a sign of hope and a true omen. If you’ve ever thought, while...
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what I'm reading
The river changes daily, according to Mark Twain in his book Life on the Mississippi. He relates, in a slow, deliberate way, his adventures piloting a steamboat up and down the great river from St. Louis to New Orleans. How the slow muddy water surges and peaks, flows low in the dry season. All…
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word people
“The wild wind howled and the full moon shined thru holes in the billowing clouds as they passed overhead. A misty fog lay on the moors below.” That’s about all I got. The rest is hidden, occluded. I can do the words. Invective. That word appeared this morning like magic while rolling around on…
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The Day After Christmas Adventure
For this rohn report I wanted to do a travelogue like my friend Maryann does walking around Portland, on her way to the river or down the street to the cafe for a meetup. So here it is, here’s my “Day after Christmas Urban Adventure in the Big City”. No beavers but I found a great Christmas song....
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noted
I started writing when I was about 10 years old, a poem for my little sister, about how she was like a spider. I don’t remember writing anything else for a while. I went thru phases. Years went by when I didn’t write anything. I don’t know what I was doing. I remember sitting in the attic of the...
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healing modalities with rohn
A video podcast. Something new. Do you like it? Comments please. Fun for me. Thanks for watching. To support the rohn report become a paid subscriber or offer a one time donation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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after the apocalypse
“The word ‘apocalypse’ comes from the Greek word apokálypsis, which is made up of the prefix apo- and the root kalýptein. Apo- means ‘away from’ or ‘off,’ and kalýptein means ‘to cover’ or ‘to hide’. Together, they mean ‘to uncover’ or ‘to reveal’.” Thank you AI or Aiee as I like to pronounce it,...
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newsletter
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...
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dreams
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…
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life unwind2
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...
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life unwind
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...
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news 2
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...
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fall
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...
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glad I'm here
. . . 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...
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light maker
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…
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Summer
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...
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mocking jay / cob houses / peace education
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…
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outside in the cafe
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 aflashlight we are protected fromthis awesome terror by our gentle light blue sky with a...
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> my book >>
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…
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technology is wonderful
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 cafe we...
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The unspeakable name and the beginning of God
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…
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no more hate no more fear
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...
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Into the deep woods
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…
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full fluorescence / sweet epiphany
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...
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The Story of the Bog Filter
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…
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