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.
A little History: I used to make a side trip to Bangalore when I visited Cochin to visit the Premier Bookstore, alas no more, the owner migrated to Australia, I…
While looking for evidence of some jewish connection to Tipu Sultan of Mysore, I came across the name of Isaac the Jew. His name appears in multiple documents, in Dutch…
Why do people Migrate? is it for themselves or for the country that are migrating to ? Is it a fair question to ask a Syrian fleeing Alep, to go…
Bhutan is a mountainous kingdom nestling in the Himalayas, where most of the people live in remote villages, most of which are not accessible easily. In some cases, you may…
While at the beginning of the Pandemic in 2020 and the various types of isolation that were to follow, many people, including me, welcomed the isolation and lack of intrusion…
Cuban Revolution, considered to be a classical example of People's uprising against tyranny and Imperialism, happened in 1959. The Giant to the north so used to the kowtowing of the…
This morning I received a message from an artist friend of mine from Teheran. and included was a song "I really love this song. I cant understand the meaning of…
We are a people of very long memory. We were slaves in Egypt in the 13th Century BCE. 3300 years ago. Jews/Israelites as slaves to the Pharoah of Egypt. Painting…
I have had the privilege of working with Indigenous peoples, in many countries around the world, and had become absorbed in to studying how to make their metabolism recover from…
Google Doodle celebrates surgical face mask inventor Dr. Wu Lien-teh's 142nd birthday Unfortunately, the good doctor's country of brith a century later did not do well with the Pandemic. At…
If you work more than 40 hours a week, you are either an economic slave or an inefficient worker who needs psychologic care .. We talk about efficiency but never…
My Mizrachi (Iraqi mother, Egyptian father, brought up in Kobe) brother and I used to travel and we had, among many other things, the love for the music of the…
TODAY IS FEBRUARY 21, 2021 There has been a Dramatic drop in the number of cases of Covid 19 infections being diagnosed in the USA. Medical Scientists would give one…
Western Intellectual thought does not denote thoughts of the Western people, but a strain of philosophy which was born and nurtured in the Western world, adopted as their own by…
It has been a long haul.. long stretched out dinners full conversations late into the night.. catching up on the news of your dear friends.. spontaneously running into faces familiar…
It was March 18, 2020 and I had packed my bags and ready to go to the airport to leave the USA. My sister and her husband begged me to…
WHAT CAN WE DO NOW ? By the middle of January 2021, I would have completed the course of vaccination against Covid 19 Apart from Israel, no other country would…
I was still in high school and in the habit of frequenting second hand bookstores (why did they all disappear?) when I came across a novel by Agnar Mykle's Lasso…
