May 15, 2020
IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE, SET THEM FREE ..
MONOCLE is one of my favourite magazines and they send a daily sniff of their diverse interests around the world. It is truly international in that you get an anthropological…
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, 2020
THE NIGHT OF FULL MOON, TENDER AND RAW EMOTIONS AND SAUDADE
During these days of tranquility and silence, I have been able to experience solitude and emotions in their rawest form. Emotions so raw and tender that tears flow. While cities…
May 15, 2020
FELIZ DIA DE LAS MADRES , MI ISLA RICA, MI CUBA
Today Mother’s Day is celebrated in Cuba, along with many other countries in this hemisphere and elsewhere. If you ask a Cuba, what is the most precious thing in their…
May 15, 2020
WHEN YOU FORGET YOUR RITUALS YOU LOOSE A PART OF YOUR ANCIENT CONNECTION TO THE UNIVERSE
When my association with the indigenous people began, I wanted to learn why they are being marginalized, disliked and accused by people who came to their lands centuries later. Who…
May 15, 2020
IMMIGRATION, POVERTY AND DEATH … DISAPARITY OF GLOBALIZATION PREDICTED BY FIDEL
There has been a disproportionate number of deaths from this virus, Covid-19, in France in 2020. If you look at the map, you would see a disproportionate number of infections…
May 15, 2020
CUBA OFFERS TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE TO MIGRANT WORKERS FROM SRI LANKA
The little island of Cuba, despite being economically blockaded for six decades by the United States, is a shining light when it comes to International Humanitarian Medical help. Sri Lanka…
May 15, 2020
SIMHA KRIYA. AND THE REDUCTION OF BLOOD PRESSURE
It has been known for a long time that many of the Yogic practices reduce the Blood Pressure. In fact, Yoga, Pranayama has all been used as adjunct therapy for…
May 15, 2020
SIBERIAN SHAMAN: I CANNOT CURE DESPAIR WHEN PEOPLE TAKE COMFORT IN IT
I read an interesting article published in a leading medical journal. May 6, 2020 Religious Service Attendance and Deaths Related to Drugs, Alcohol, and Suicide Among US Health Care Professionals…
May 15, 2020
TALE OF TWO DOCTORS, BOTH FROM CUBA, ONE AT THE FRONTIERS OF CORONA CARE IN ITALY AND THE OTHER AT THE MEXICAN BORDER WITH USA
TWO CUBAN DOCTORS BOTH 28 YEARS OF AGE ONE LEFT TO SERVE CORONA VIRUS PATIENTS IN ITALY, PROMISE TO STAY AS LONG AS NECESSARY IN THE LOMBARDY REGION TO HELP…
May 15, 2020
OBESITY IN THE LAND OF THE YOGIS. INDIA HAS THE FATTEST AND THE LEANEST …
I have been lucky to include India in my wanderings around the world, despite the fact that my visits are always short lived, a matter of days and it is…
May 15, 2020
EAT ORGANIC WHEN YOU CAN.. IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE
The nutrition education in the USA has been guided by commercial interests and ignorance of the general public, reeling with so much information thrown at them in a haphazard fashion.…
May 15, 2020
LA VIDA ES UN SUENO GRACIAS POR LA VIDA. THANKS FOR THIS MAGIC, MY DEAR FRIENDS
Magic days amidst rain and thunder in Miami They had announced it earlier, a storm is forming out on the horizon and one could feel more than normal rain and…
May 15, 2020
OVER THE RAINBOW IN HAWAII. HAPPY BIRTHDAY IZ
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole The islands of Hawaii played an important part in my life at certain stage of intellectual growth. I was torn between the native people of USA and the…
May 15, 2020
FREEDOM IS TO HAVE THE TIME TO LIVE THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE: WISDOM OF PEPE MUJICA
If you had grown up in a revolutionary household, you would have been exposed to the classical ones, such as the Bolshevik, the romantic Cuban of 1959, Mao Zedong and…
May 15, 2020
THE CULTURE OF FEAR DURING THE TIME OF CORONA VIRUS. USA
THE CULTURE OF FEAR DURING THE TIME OF CORONA Following the pandemic situation around the world, it Is becoming obvious that one of the more misinformed countries is the United…
May 15, 2020
WHY I AM SO FOND OF COCHIN IN KERALA ..
Over the years I have become very fond of Cochin in Kerala, India. One cunning man eyed me wearily and asked: there must be more than just love for the…
May 15, 2020
MELEYKH VISWANATH AN ERUDITE INDIAN JEW AND TAMOUL AND YIDDISCH CONNECTION .
For young translator of sold-out ‘Harry Potter,’ Yiddish is truly his mamaloshen How Arun Viswanath, the 29-year-old scion of a US literary dynasty, translated series opener ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ into…
May 15, 2020
ORFEU NEGRO. BLACK ORPHEUS DANCING IN MY HEART
It is raining in Miami. Nothing unusual at this time of the year. Moments like this From unknown places A song would drift in I know I am in for…