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.
Chaharshanbeh Suri or Charshanbeh Suri ( Persian : چهارشنبهسوری , romanized : Čahāršanbe suri ; [ lit. 'The Scarlet Wednesday'), is an Iranian festival of the fire dance celebrated on…
I have been associated with the Native Indians of North America throughout my stays in this land, some tribes become like family, others transfer a little bit of their knowledge…
Today has been a wonderful day for me in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, as each of the past few days have been. I do not wish to think of my…
Today has turned out to be a very pleasant day.. I do not pay much attention to the Valentine's Day hype in the West but in Cuba this day is…
AZEMMOUR , city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. In the 15 th century Azemmour was a free city with 20,000 inhabitants, of whom 2,500 were Jews, mainly occupied as…
Look at the photo first without reading the captions. What do you see ? what do you feel ? that would tell more about you than the substance of the…
One of the favourite pastimes in the western world is to predict the weather or repeat the drastic prediction made by slender, flimsily clad "certified meterologists" (whatever that is ).…
Tonight is 21 december .. it is the night of Yalda .. It is the longest night, full of darkness and this morning when young women went to their universities…
In 1991, Serge Renaud, a scientist from the University of Bordeaux, coined the term the FRENCH PARADOX, after noting the relatively lower rate of cardiovascular diseases among the French compared…
My UmonHon Indian teacher, Pierre said to me, appropriately after I had hurried to the Clinic of the tribe, without much attention to the blue skies, and an eagle following…
I had an intense day in Cochin being with old and new friends both in Ernakulam and Mattancherry. and it was time to leave Cochin to get back to this…
An elderly gentleman, kind and soft spoken with a son in Sydney who is an accountant took me from the airport to the hotel Double Tree by Hilton in Kuala…
For a western mind, these sonorous names roll off like dew to a pasture Shalinda, Rosana, Ashikin, Jieha, Mustaqim, Zarina, Odelia Najwa, Ameen but these are the names of some…
The morning was still young, a text message arrives from Kuala Lumpur, do you have time to talk? it said It was KO, the former Malaysian ambassador to Cuba. We…
CARAVANSARY AT TABRIZ IRAN Eventhough we tend to associate Caravansary with the Silk Road and the Arab and Turkic traders, they were found in Iran hundreds of years earlier, during…
For a rich and developed country (slipping in the ranks as days roll by and other progressive countries are stepping in), USA has one of the most complicated medical care…
The incredible tranquility of my home in Havana elevated me to a level of consciousness that i truly felt . Adding to those embers was my love for Iran.. directly…
After writing the title, I realized that I had used the word OTHER to describe the 99.8% of the world's population who are not JEWISH. Usually we are the perpetual…
