May 15, 2020
INDIANS ARE DYING. .. CONTINENTS APART.. SADNESS IS THE SAME..
She was only 28 from the Navajo Nation in Arizona, USA. Her partner, a police officer for the tribe, tested positive. She stayed at home to look after him. Her…
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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.
Apr 15, 2020
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
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…
Apr 15, 2020
MY HEART IS BROKEN OVER THE PLIGHT OF THE INDIANS OF THE AMAZONIA AT THIS DIFFICULT TIMES
Para escapar do coronavírus, Yanomami se refugiam no interior da Floresta To escape the Coronavirus, Yanomami take refuge in the Interior of the Forest My Heart is Broken tonight It…
Apr 15, 2020
WHY ARE SO FEW IN INDIA DYING IN THIS PANDEMIC. AND SWEDEN WITHOUT LOCKDOWN. BE CAREFUL TO INTERPRET DATA
If you are used to reading scientific articles especially in Medicine, you can see the commentaries in the popular press distorting the data. At no time has it been true…
Apr 15, 2020
THRIFTY GENE, DR.MARCELA LeBEAU AND SNP ON ABCA1 GENE: A CENTURY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND DIABETES
Thrifty Gene, Dr. Marcela LeBeau and SNP on ABCA1 gene. A century of American Indians and Diabetes When I first read about J.V.Neel’s Thrifty gene theory, I was immediately attracted…
Oct 15, 2019
EVERYTHING IS RELATED . MITAKUYE OYASIN INDIANS SAY WE ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO DECIPHER IT
A BUDDHIST monk appears at the hotel where I was staying at Fort Cochin in Kerala, India He is a Geshe, just one year short of becoming a monk. He…
Oct 15, 2019
LEAVING BRISTOW’S LIGHTHOUSE BUNGALOW IN FORT COCHIN, KERALA, INDIA
I had a delightful 10 day stay at the only hotel facing the Arabian Sea at the historic town of Fort Cochin, near the Indian city of Ernakulum in Kerala,…
Jun 15, 2019
SADHGURU AND AMERICAN INDIAN WISDOM
I have been very lucky to have some very good friends in KL, of course not to mention my best friend in all of Asia, YMC, whom I met while…
Apr 15, 2019
CHANCE FAVOURS THE PREPARED MIND . CASUALIDAD ES NO TAN CASUAL SAY THE INDIANS
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Mar 15, 2019
A MESSAGE ARRIVED FROM MY UMONHON INDIAN BROTHER
and gratefully received I am in Rangoon/Yangon; Birmanie/Myanmar.. here is his message Good morning brother! Off to work this morning and the sunrise is a beautiful purple and pink color.…
Dec 15, 2018
JOURNEY TO THE INDIANS
I was not prepared for this weather -4 C .. I had left the balmy Havana streets and the parque and my good friends and I arrived at Omaha Airport…
Nov 15, 2018
HOW INDIA SAVED MY BURMESE BROTHER KO MMMT
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Sep 15, 2018
SHANAH TOVAH TO THE JEWS OF INDIA AND IRAN … MAY ALL OF US BE UNITED SOON
I have nurtured a love for smaller jewish communities around the world ever since I became aware of them and was able to visit them. Currently I live in an…
Jun 15, 2018
A SHORT VIDEO ABOUT DAYS IN COCHIN, INDIA
FOR some lucky reason, I end up in Fort Cochin few times a year. I am not devoted to India and in fact, my visit to Cochin begins with arrival…
Jun 15, 2018
WHERE DID THE INDIANS GO ? AN INDIGENOUS HISTORY
I was not aware of this book, nor of the reviewer a Canadian by the name of Bhupinder Singh. I have reproduced the entire review for people interested in the…
May 15, 2018
INDIA IN IRAN AT THE TIME OF THE SAFAVIDS (Safavids (1501-1722 CE)
Initially, the Safavids brought clerics from the Arab world, particularly Jabal Amil in what is now south Lebanon, but gradually a new breed of Iranian Shia faqih emerged. Of these,…
Apr 15, 2018
FORT COCHIN A PLACE TO STAY PUT WHEN YOU VISIT KERALA INDIA
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Mar 15, 2018
MEETING A REMARKABLE INDIAN AT MY FAVOURITE HOTEL IN FORT COCHIN :BRISTOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL
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