Dr Dohn

We need touch and stimulation to stay healthy. “Stay in touch” is a common form of recognizing our connection to another person. Speech and talking, face to face sharing our heart coupled with touch complete the health providing acknowledgement that we are not alone. I really know this. All the […]

“Our God given passionate drives of lust and ambition are foreplay for what must be integrous moves and expressions. These drives are very powerful, the source of all pleasures, easily abused and most enjoyed when delayed.” NOPA, 2023 (No One in Particular)

I had my annual physical from the VA this morning. My blood tests, pressures, sugars, urinalysis are quite normal for a 20 year old man. The doctor was asking me how I do this. At 77 years old. I worked for and enjoy great health given I’ve broken both ankles, […]

There is a part of my brain that likes to worry about things. That part of my brain is grateful that Chicken Little seems to have hacked our news and social media outlets with the possible threats and menaces to our health, environment and governments. There is also a part […]

After 77 times, my birthday came and went again. They just keep coming. My first thought this year was to thank, first of all my Mother as she did all the work. Then, my life is so full, healthy and fun that my gratitude goes to my family. So I […]

I was playing golf with three friends on a hot afternoon at Sky Links Golf Course. On this course, as with most golf courses, they have marshalls that drive the course, carry water, keep the pace of play happening and generally are of service to the golfers. We were on […]

I am grateful that I have not been wildly successful in any area of my life. The Saudi’s are not trying to buy my image to gain some undeserved respect. I am a spectacularly mediocre golfer. No movie moguls are attempting to make more money off of me. I do […]

It’s difficult to figure out the beauty of a flower by understanding fertilizer. There are well educated people who argue over whether our existence happened by random molecular chance from the Big Bang Theory or we are a Creation of Intelligent Design? The most accurate solution is “We don’t know”. […]

            I attended a Tibetan Buddhist Workshop on Death and Dying. This was facilitated by Murshida (movewithmurshida.com) at a retreat center in East San Diego County. In addition to extensive meditation and yoga we were taught the Phowa Course of Buddhist teachings of our spiritual existence.             My takeaway so […]

Since the early 1990’s I have participated in a mythopoetic men’s drumming and story-telling group. We are the Wide Sky Men’s Council. Sometime in the early 90’s we were visited by an African Medicine Man who went by the name Patrice Malidoma Some’. He had recently completed a pHd at […]