Apr 15, 2017
THE MOVEABLE FEAST OF LA HABANA COMES TO MIAMI
Miami has always been a soothing balm to my soul, it was a love at first sight when I arrived in USA to do my post graduate studies. Friends have…
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Mar 15, 2017
ADIOS Y BIENVENIDOS CUBA HELLOS AND GOODBYES
Adios y Bienvenidos CUBA Hellos and Goodbyes One of the principles of Yogic Philosophy is the Lack of Attachment: attachment to objects, places and people that binds a person. It…
Mar 15, 2017
NEW FRIENDS IN LA HABANA, CUBA
If you cannot make friends in Havana, you better get yourself checked out, something is wrong! It is such a friendly country with such approachable people, such an educated country…
Mar 15, 2017
TOURISTS AND THEIR TOUR GUIDE IN HAVANA MARCH 2017
Tourists and The Tour Guide in HAVANA For fifteen days in the month of March, I had friends visiting me, from three different cultural milieus in USA..A Native American couple…
Mar 15, 2017
A SUBDUED ARRIVAL IN THE UNITED STATES FROM CUBA
Normally I am very happy when my flight lands in Miami, and I recollect incidents associated with various spots I can recognize from the air. The main purpose of my…
Feb 15, 2017
HOW TO FIND HAPPINESS IN HAVANA
HOW TO FIND HAPPINESS IN HAVANA AVOID FOREIGNERS AND TOURISTS Unless you are a tourist or an expatriate, one does not ordinarily encounter them, if you are resident in Miami…
Feb 15, 2017
WARNING TO VISITORS TO HAVANA AND CUBA
WARNING TO VISITORS TO CUBA Recently there was an article in the American Media to avoid certain places in Cuba... and it included the tourist ghetto of Varadero, the false…
Jan 15, 2017
THE BEST AND WORST PASSPORTS TO HAVE: A METAPHOR FOR OUR WORLD IN CONFLICT
I am very happy to see Singapore and Malaysia in this list, I think it is because of their active diplomacy. For example, Malaysia is one of the few countries…
Jan 15, 2017
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM HAVANA, CUBA
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/01/happy-new-year-from-havana-cuba.html
Jan 15, 2017
SUBURBAN SHAMAN WHY DOCTORS SHOULD REGAIN THE HUMAN ASPECT OF MEDICINE FROM THEIR PAPERS AND PODS
Oliver Sacks wrote in the Introduction to this book: Cecil Helman is many things: old-fashioned General (Family) Practitioner, psychiatrist, cultural anthropologist, storyteller, poet and artist-and all this comes together in…
Jan 15, 2017
WISDOM FOR AN ICY CHILLY MORNING
“Wherever you have friends, that’s your country. Wherever you receive love, that’s your home. Whoever gives you love, that’s your parent.” – Tibetan saying. As quoted by the Dalai Lama.…
Jan 15, 2017
FIX YOURSELF TO FACE THE PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT YOU
16 January 2017 It is that time of the year in these Plains. Leaves had already fallen into oblivion and the stark trees pait themselves against the grey canvas of…