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.
Even in the small provincial village of Quiberon in Brittany in France in the bookstore one could find copies of the book by the Israeli historian of the future, Yuval…
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…
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…
I felt that the year 2019 was an extraordinarily good year for travel . COUNTRIES VISITED IN 2019 MANY TIMES USA CUBA FRANCE MEXICO COLOMBIA BRASIL ARGENTINA URUGUAY CHILE EASTER…
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…
When I arrived in MIami to do postgraduate work in Endocrinology, one of my colleagues at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital was a Panamanian Jew by the name of…
Things have a reason for happening. A colleague who seldom talks about travel, sent me this I am on my way to Israel. It is fully vaccinated, as close to…
Not too far from the city of Miami, lies the erstwhile agricultural district of Redlands. It is such a change in scenery, physical and emotional leaving the cuban-heavy Miami ambiance…
Survival during the passage of time I look forward to the monthly FULL moon Satsang with Sadhguru the mystic from South India. Tonight was the full moon 20 September 2021…
Last night, it was Erev Yom Kippur, the beginning of the day of atonement. I had been with the Indians are hurried home before the sunset, missing the opening hours…
The Jewish New Year is upon us..Couldnt celebrate properly last year and this year seems we will celebrate on line with whoever wish to share these days.. This being human…
It was 4 pm, the mellow sun was about to set over the London skies. I was a student of Anthropology at London. I made myself a cup of tea.…
I have been fortunate to get to know some Native people who are caught in the web of acculturation and their intense desire to maintain their culture. So happy was…
Madrid airport takes the Covid Precautions VERY seriously. I was asked about my covid documents three times and my vaccination certificate checked just before boarding. There are sanitizers galore, spread…
I have had two days of absolute tranquility, calm and mental balance. No one else is in this house, I have my coffee at the patio looking at the green…
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…
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…
Jews must have lived in Morocco ever since 70 CE but the definite change came after they were expelled from Spain 1492. Even before the expulsion, there was migration of…
