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.
FIDEL AND GLOBALIZATION Jefe Comandante Fidel Castro of Cuba was one of the earliest opponent of Rampant Capitalism and Globalization. He was right on the target as we see the…
Without doubt my favourite single word in this entire world has to be Saudade e eu tenho saudades por tudo, saudades do Brasil... It is so difficult to translate this…
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 I have had the pleasure of visiting Indigenous groups in most of the…
Whenever I mention Amazon, you know I am talking about my projects with the Indigenous peoples along the magnificent river Amazon Not this time this time about Amazon Prime delivery..…
It is with the greatest of sadness that I read the news that the remote Yanomami have been afflicted with the Covid-19 The current government of Brasil is not at…
It is a wonderfully beautiful full moon night in Miami. Why is this night different from all the other nights? I will tell you I was told to go out…
MINDFULNESS OF THE MIND THE METHOD OF YEHUDA IBNCOCHINI I have music on the background when I am on my computer said a friend of mine. I said to him,…
HOW TO DETECT FAKE NEWS IN THE TIME OF CORONA I think the majority of what is being circulated as news and events in the internet, especially in the Social…
Limbo vs Liminality These two words have tremendous significance and relevance in the situation we are going through and the state of our societies even before the calamities stepped in…
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…
Sixty days ago, I arrived in Miami on a flight, and took Share Ride Uber to my sisters house and I have not been back to the airport since. I…
Many years ago, I encountered a little poet at Cote Sauvage in the Bretagne peninsula that houses the vacation spot of Quiberon. I have been lucky in that over the…
I have always wondered why we listen to the music that we listen to. Cesaria Evora from Cabo Verde sang in Portuguese Creole that no one, not even Portuguese speakers…
Person of Colour I do not understand Who is a person of Colour? A term very popular in the USA Arabs are considered White Persians are considered White Majority of…
I was a young boy when I across this saying in one of the journals that arrived once a month: Life is a long holiday with Intervals of work. I…
People worry that they would be bored if they have to stay home for more than a few days, as most people in this world are forced to do now…
I am in the USA at the moment and the Corona virus has caused a panic in like many parts of the world. While they claim that they are doing…
What is the origin of this EUPHORIA? It originated somewhere else, but came seeking me .. And I was listening to Alex Fox from Argentina playing his Spanish Guitar I…
