May 15, 2021
BE PART OF THE WELLBEING OF OTHERS, GOOD KARMA
Why do people Migrate? is it for themselves or for the country that are migrating to ? Is it a fair question to ask a Syrian fleeing Alep, to go…
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.
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
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
WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY KARMA, THE UBIQUITOUS WORD MISREPRESENTED IN THE WESTERN MIND
IN 2008, On an Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Siem Reap, Cambodia, I met MCY who would become my closest friend in Asia. We shared/continue to share…
Mar 15, 2021
CELEBRATION OF PESACH DURING COVID
We are a people of very long memory. We were slaves in Egypt in the 13th Century BCE. 3300 years ago. Jews/Israelites as slaves to the Pharoah of Egypt. Painting…
Mar 15, 2021
IKIGAI THE JAPANESE CONCEPT IN THE MODERN WORLD
When I began my journeys in the Americas, I was impressed with the wealth of literature available. At that time, I did not speak Spanish or Portugues, thus my world…
Mar 15, 2021
NOW, FOR INDIVIDUAL NUTRITION, BASED ON SCIENCE . MICROBIOME. NUTRIGENOMICS. AND LEARN FROM THE ISRAELIS
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…
Mar 15, 2021
WE TAKE PRIDE IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE BUT IS IT BECOMING LESS FREE ?
Regardless of which part of the world you live in, there is a slow slipping towards the right in body politics. Of course we will not talk about countries where…
Feb 15, 2021
I HAVE RECEIVED MY VACCINE.. SO THAT MY PATIENTS ARE SAFE..
I work for a special community and they were prioritized to receive vaccines for all the Health Care workers as well as all the members of the community. The Health…
Jan 15, 2021
NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FELT THIS IMPOTENT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
It was March 18, 2020 and I had packed my bags and ready to go to the airport to leave the USA. My sister and her husband begged me to…
Dec 15, 2020
A SPECIAL DEATH: REMEMBERING THE MAHARAJAH OF SERI KEMBANGAN AND HIS TWO COURTIERS
A special death There are special deaths, but only Special people deserve that. Death comes out of season, said the Great Orator of the Omaha, The Little Elk. We can't…
Oct 15, 2020
PSYCHOLOGICAL PANDEMIC IN THE TIME OF CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC
DUNBAR NUMBER IN THE TIMES OF COVID This morning BBC Future had an article, How solitude and isolation can affect your social skills. Humans are deeply social creatures, so what…
Oct 15, 2020
LIFE HAS BECOME NORMAL TO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD AND THEY CAN THINK OF THEIR SPIRITUAL ADVANCEMENT
We in the West, whether USA or the countries in the Americas or Europe or the Middle East tend to forget that there are countries where the life has continued…
Oct 15, 2020
IDENTITIES WITHOUT BORDERS: LESSONS FROM MALAYSIA WITH GRATITUDE TO MY FRIENDS IN KUALA LUMPUR
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…
Sep 15, 2020
DOUBLE TREE BY HILTON MEMORIES AND REMINISCENCES AND HOPES FOR A QUICK RETURN
Over the course of years, I have been a loyal visitor to Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur and had become friends with many of the workers: concierge desk, Front…
Sep 15, 2020
WHO REALLY ARE YOU ? FORGET WHAT YOU ARE, NOT IMPRESSED WITH THIS..
This prolonged social isolation has given time to ponder about social aspects of many of the cultures and also relativeness of our nationalities and religion and our identities. Some of…
Aug 15, 2020
REMEMBERING WHAT MY INDIGENOUS TEACHERS TOLD ME ABOUT DIABETES CARE AMONG THE NATIVE PEOPLE
I will never forget the words of the elder, Adeline W. Here we were sitting at her modest home in the settlement of Indians out of the bling and business…
Aug 15, 2020
IN MANY WAYS CUBAN MEDICINE UNSELFISHLY REACHES OUT TO THE WORLD … IT HELPS ME HELP OTHERS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES INCLUDING OUR ARCHENEMY
I am a Doctor without Borders, in the sense that I help with the little talent I have as a Pubic Health physician based on Endocrinology and Anthropology, in many…