May 15, 2021
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI … WHERE SHALL I GO ?
These are the countries which are close to my heart and in each one of them there are conflicts of one sort of another: all politicized, whether it is the…
Stories
Field notes from the road
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.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
May 15, 2021
A WONDERFUL DAY IN MIAMI: WITH GRATITUDE TO ALL THAT WHICH WAS LEARNED IN THIS YEAR OF ISOLATION
It was a nice day here in Miami today. The weather was picture perfect. I had contact with many of my friends around the world. The men of letters that…
May 15, 2021
GOOD NEWS ABOUT REFORESTATION FOR A CHANGE. FROM ECUADORIAN AMAZON AND SUNDERBANS IN BENGAL
I can look through the large glass window as I type this and see wonderful trees that grow in the space on the front of these townhouses. In the backyard…
May 15, 2021
IS ISLAM A RELIGION OF PEACE , CHRISTOPHER HITCHINS NO, TARIQ RAMADAN IN ITS OWN WAY .. A GOOD DEBATE
Listen to the Intellectuals, whether you agree with them or not, you may learn something. Just because other people have different opinions from your own, they are not your enemies.…
May 15, 2021
CUBA IS ROLLING OUT ITS SECOND HOMEGROWN VACCINE. ABDALA
IT fills my heart with such pride and joy that a small nation of just 11 million people, strangled by international forces, mainly to the north and their peons, was…
May 15, 2021
VISIT TO AN INDIGENOUS VILLAGE AND THEY INTRODUCE ME TO THE FOREST
Last night I felt an excitement which I couldn't explain and always reminded me of my Meskwakia teacher : What a pity you are not smart enough to understand all…
May 15, 2021
EXERCISE, OBESITY, NUTRITION AND DIABETES: A VIEW FROM THE SOCIETY OR FROM THE GROUND.
There is not a single person in USA and perhaps the world who DOES NOT know that EXERCISE is good for you and a basic understanding of what foods are…
May 15, 2021
CHARLATANS OF HEALTH:EXERCISE, OBESITY, NUTRITION AND DIABETES: A VIEW FROM THE SOCIETY OR FROM THE GROUND.
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…
May 15, 2021
IS KINDNESS CONTAGIOUS: A WONDERFUL DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
One of the pleasures of driving leisurely to the National Park to visit the Indigenous people, is to listen to BBC World Service.. It is truly, as it claims, the…
May 15, 2021
CHOC, ROSES AND CHE.. LIFE IS COMPLETE, WROTE MY BEST FRIEND FROM ASIA
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…
May 15, 2021
WHAT IS THE INDIAN FOOD SERVED IN “INDIAN” RESTARAURANTS OUTSIDE INDIA
Landladies and Inn keepers may have offered "curried" dishes before then, but this was the first restaurant owned and operated by and an Indian, a Bengali Muslim Sake Dean Mohammed,…
May 15, 2021
WATCHING LIFE UNFOLD WHILE I READ AND WRITE DURING THIS SOCIAL ISOLATION
About six weeks ago I noticed a mother Duck and about 12 of her ducklings, present themselves. Mother needless to say was very protective and she could hide all her…
Apr 15, 2021
EXCESSIVE EXERCISE IN THE ABSENCE OF NUTRITION ( NOT PROCESSED FOOD LIKE SUBSTANCES) MAY ACTUALLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH
When asked to accompany an European-Australian to go for a run around a football field, an Australian aboriginal person accepted the invitation and ran with him around the ground. When…
Apr 15, 2021
FATTY LIVER, WHAT CAN WE DO? DRINK SOME CUBAN COFFEE..
One of the simple pleasures in life is to sip a cup of Cuban Coffee. I walk to the nearest cafe, and order a Cortadito which is a Cuban style…
Apr 15, 2021
MARVELS OF TECHNOLOGY: THE FUTURE WHERE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEETS HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
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…
Apr 15, 2021
SO PROUD OF CUBA, A SMALL ISOLATED, ASPHYXIATED BY THE GIANT TO THE NORTH, HAS ITS OWN VACCINE
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…
Apr 15, 2021
CUBAN SOLIDARITY, NORTH AMERICAN FRAGILITY AND JALALUDDIN RUMI ..
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…
Apr 15, 2021
OVER DIAGNOSIS AMONG AMERICAN HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS.. WHERE DID IT ORIGINATE ?
I am familiar with the health care systems in many parts of the world. The best, in my opinion, has been the one in FRANCE and the most chaotic is…