Jun 15, 2020
REDISCOVERING BRASILIAN MUSIC
BRASIL has always been in my mind’s horizon. I have been lucky to see a small part of this immensely diverse country, from the Argentina border at Foz do Iguassu…
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
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO VOLUNTEER IN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES NECESSARY I hold Medecins sans Frontieres in high esteem. It was founded in 1971 by Bernard Kouchner and a coterie of French doctors and…
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
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
DONT KNOCK THE COCCONUT OIL .. JUST FIND OUT WHETHER IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR GENES ..
The Effect of Coconut Oil Consumption on Cardiovascular Risk Factors A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials When I first saw this article title, I thought of my Polynesian…
Apr 15, 2020
DO YOU FEEL RESPONSIBLE OR WILL YOU RESPOND TO IT? FALSE FRIENDS FAUX AMIS AND OTHERS
I have lived in four countries where English in various forms is the official language: Australia, England, USA and Jamaica 3 other countries where English is spoken but not the…
Apr 15, 2020
SAUDADE POR QATAR AIRWAYS
It was a nice day in August 2012, when I left the reservation of the UmonHon Indians in the USA and flew from Houston to Doha, connecting to Jakarta. It…
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
CUBA SENDS 101 NURSES TO BARABADOS TO HELP THE SISTER COUNTRY COMBAT CORONA
101 nurses have left Cuba to assist Barbados in its fight against the Coronavirus. This brigade was unique in two ways. It was the first mission to Barbados from Cuba…
Mar 15, 2020
A HAPPY SONG FROM ISRAEL ..A COMBINATION OF MIDDLE EASTERN MELODIES. SHLOMI SHABAT. YUVAL DAYAN. IDAN AMEDI
We are living through a little difficult times that requires understanding of one another and also tolerant and compassionate behaviours to the others and be considerate of the feeble persons…
Mar 15, 2020
PERSONS OF COLOUR OR PERSONS PORTRAYING HUMANITY. NOT THE SAME, ARE THEY ?
Person of Colour I do not understand Who is a person of Colour? A term very popular in the USA Arabs are considered White Persians are considered White Majority of…
Mar 15, 2020
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA
I am in the USA at the moment and the Corona virus has caused a panic in like many parts of the world. While they claim that they are doing…
Feb 15, 2020
NOT DWELLING ON THE NONCONDITIONED. BUDDHA IN REAL LIFE
NOT DWELLING ON THE NONCONDITIONED I am writing this from my flat in Vedado in La Habana, Cuba. The life here seems almost ideal. I woke up from a blissful…
Jan 15, 2020
MALA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:ON SAVING JEWISH MONUMENTS OF MALA KERALA UNDER PROF KARMACHANDRAN
SLIDES PRESENTED AT THE MALA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FIDEL with PM NEHRU at UN in September 1960 Fidel with Indira Gandhi in New Delhi CHE WITH PM NEHRU Contemplating at 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,…
Dec 15, 2019
THE FROZEN ROSE . A POIGNANT SHORT FILM FROM IRAN
How many countries I have fallen in LOVE in all these years of my travels? AUSTRALIA USA JAMAICA ENGLAND CUBA AND HAVE FELT STRONG EMOTIONS FOR MEXICO ARGENTINA FRANCE BELGIUM…
Dec 15, 2019
THE PERSON WHO LOVES HIS COUNTRY LOVES HIS HOME HAS PEACE
I enjoy walking along the Malecon as the sun sets. At this time of the year in Havana, it sets behind some buildings, not in the open seas, but it…
Oct 15, 2019
THE MAGIC OCTOBER CONTINUES
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE --> THE MAGIC OCTOBER CONTINUES Today is 26 th October 2019 On 26 th September I was in Lisbon, Portugal catching a…