Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Today has been a good day.. Was it the Ozone therapy that I received over the weekend or the wonderful meals? of the pleasure of talking to an Indian Elder?…
What all happens in the course of a day? asked the poet. Each day is an unexpected gift, you may meet someone new, taught my erudite jewish teacher in Melbourne,…
There is a soothing quality to this silence in the house It is night outside, the time the hour and the minute does not matter Some friends are awake and…
I am at this large house by myself. Tranquil able to concentrate and to think. also realize who your friends are and who would be there for you Mr Carlos…
My closest friends in South Florida live 120 km north from where I stay in Miami. The Highway takes you there in less than an hour and half, allowing me…
San Lazaro is a Spirit from the pantheon of Cuban Syncretic Space, he is a Healer, a good Spirit to have on your side during these isolated days of suffering.…
I am writing this for my family in Miami and also Cayman Islands as well as other travelers including my colleagues who are traveling during this holiday season. People should…
YALDA the longest night is celebrated in IRAN where it must have originated while it was Zoroastrian centuries before the Muslim conquest. It is also celebrated in some parts of…
21 december 2021 Winter Solstice Yalda celebrated in Iran Iran is 8 1/2 hours time zones away from Miami. So i was able to enjoy the feasts and getting together…
Today has been a lovely day No one to disturb my peace, near and far A nice sensation when one is able to help, the philanthropy of time and knowledge…
I had come back to the hotel after visiting a village of Ticuna Indians along the Colombian Amazon, The hotel is certainly one of the more pleasant places to stay…
It had been raining, the day with the Indigenous people living in the Park has been emotional. Two colleagues needed help, one talked about her husband and the other one…
I am not in the habit of writing Trip Reports (there are plenty of websites for that), but one thing remains that I do enjoy flying and my own little…
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Bert Flint, a dutch ethnologist passionately befriended studied and helped and collected artifacts and postulated the nativeness of BERBER people of North West Africa and the sub Sahelian branch of…
Currently there is a. great fascination in the west for "occupied lands and peoples". A deep examination would reveal a group of people who do not have a wholistic understanding…
If I stayed one month in the Medina of Marrakech, i am sure I will have to say Hello to hundreds of people. People remember you and of course, being…
I have visited various Jewish cemeteries around the world where only memories linger on in the streets where Jewish people lived and died for hundreds of years. Penang, Malaysia Cochin,…
