Jan 15, 2020
SO CLOSE TO THE UNITED STATES AND YET SO TRANQUIL . LA HABANA CUBA
I think it was Porfirio Diaz of Mexico who lamented: Oh Mexico, so close to the United States and so far away from God.. today I took the short flight…
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Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
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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.
Jan 15, 2020
CUBAN STYLE WHOLISTIC MEDICINE: PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL
In this past week, I have witnessed at close quarters, the wonderful wholistic approach to HEALTH in CUBA. Health is not the absence of disease, it is obvious from the…
Dec 15, 2019
GRATEFUL FOR THE CHANCE TO HELP ANOTHER HUMAN BEING . A STORY FROM CUBA
I was born HOMELESS in that my parents were not in their countries of origin and like my brother Eliyahu ended up in countries that were not in our destiny,…
Nov 15, 2019
IRANIAN MUSIC IN THAT CITY OF MOVEABLE FEASTS… LA HABANA, CUBA
Faramaz Aslani and Babak Amini made this video YAR in La Habana. It is nice to see the melodies and rhythms of Iran and Cuba mix..
Nov 15, 2019
HAPPY 500th ANNIVERSARY SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA . TE AMO CUBA
Some of the following photographs may be copyrighted so I beg forgiveness of the photographers but they were available in the Net.. Many people in Miami are very surprised how…
Oct 15, 2019
OH MIAMI SO CLOSE TO US IN CUBA BUT SO FAR AWAY IN YOUR UNHAPPY WORLD
Porfirio Diaz the Mexican Dictator seemed to have implied; Pobre Mexico, tan circa de Estados Unidos y tan lejos de Dios We, in Cuba, has something to offer the poor…
Oct 15, 2019
CUBA FOLLOWS YOU …. MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
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Oct 15, 2019
SUNRISE SUNSET IN HAVANA CUBA 21.10.2019
On the way to the Malecon to watch the sunset, i was so happy to see this 1939 Ford and the friendly owners.. I stay just a hundred metres away…
Oct 15, 2019
UNFAIR BLOCKADE OF CUBA BY THE USA .. ITS ARMS EXTEND FAR TO CAUSE MISERY TO ORDINARY PEOPLE
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Oct 15, 2019
CUBA EN MI CORAZON . LIKE THEY SAY APPLE OF MY EYE
I received this photograph from the Middle East. I was overjoyed to see a geographical impression of our America imposed upon the open eyes.. and behold CUBA is right there…
Sep 15, 2019
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES MY LIFE IN HAVANA CUBA
KINDNESS IN THE TIME OF DIFFICULTIES I have always wondered why the Cubans who live in the island are so kind and demonstrate a sense of solidarity that one rarely…
Sep 15, 2019
THE FEASTS OF HAVANA CUBA : A GLIMPSE OF LIVES HAPPILY LIVED
After I had delivered a talk at the annual conference of Endocrinology in 2019, an Argentine doctor said she needed an explanation: This is my first visit to Cuba, she…
Jul 15, 2019
MARIE UNO AGED 24 YEARS BECOMES A DOCTOR IN CUBA
Marie Uno as I call her was born 10 Jan 1995 and at the age of 24.5 years, she will be have the licence to practise Medicine in Cuba accepted…
Jun 15, 2019
MAY OCHUN PROTECT YOU, CAME THE MESSAGE FROM CUBA
I arrived back in Miami, on a delayed flight close to midnight last night. This was my third round the world trip in the last six months, averaging a visit…
Jun 15, 2019
THE THREE CUBANS OF SIEM REAP CAMBODIA
I am told there are about 15 Cubans in Cambodia, excluding the Ambassador and staff at the Cuban embassy, and most of them are in Phnom Penh in the capita.…
Jun 15, 2019
AH SO GOOD TO BE A ROVING AMBASSADOR FOR CUBA . A QUERY FROM ARGENTINA
Just last week I gave a talk at a conference in Havana, Cuba at the annual meeting of the Diabetes Association of Cuba as well as the Association of Latin…
Jun 15, 2019
NOW TO BOTATAUNG PAGODA TO PRAY FOR LBGS AUSTRALIA FRANCE CUBA
The next person to pray for at various corners and shrines of Botataung Pagoda was LBGS Nats are pre buddhist spirits which are revered in Burma. BO BO GYI is…
May 15, 2019
A WELL KNIT COMMUNITY OF ENDOCRINOLOGISTS IN HAVANA CUBA
The Community of Endocrine Physicians and Psychologists is a small well knit cohesive and gentle one. Whenever I get a chance to be with them, mostly at conferences, I enjoy…