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.
When it is 10 pm in Miami, it is 6 30 am in Tehran and the city is waking up A friend of mine from there joins me in 30…
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?…
There are many things that I remember about Christine Lagarde during my stay in France. She was the Minister for Economy who went on to become the Director General of…
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…
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…
I have been in this small Breton city/large village of Quiberon which is very tourist oriented, but I had come to visit people who live here. Our meals are usually…
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…
I had sent photographs of my happy day to my best friend in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and her comment was : Choc Roses and Che . Life is complete she…
this is a continuation of the previous post, I was having some trouble with this paragraph and the video to attach to the blog. Nowhere in the west you can…
What a lovely way to begin a morning ? In the course of the day, one pays attention to ones body, mind, spirit and in many ways they are not…
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…
Tonight is the Full Moon of April 2021. I joined on line to a philosophical/spiritual discussion by a leading Guru from South India. Normally his talks are entertaining but this…
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…
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…
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…
IDENTITIES WITHOUT BORDERS Borders is what we create so that we can cocoon inside it and then feel comfortable in them with our fellow travelers. Currently I am reading a…
On the morning of October 5, 2019, I knew my. life was going to change, but did not expect so many changes. I am used to unexpected pleasures but this…
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION ? NO ANXIETY NO FEAR BUT SHEER JOY OF FRIENDS FROM NEAR AND FAR. 30 APRIL 2020 IN MIAMI WHICH IS UNDER LOCKDOWN The…
