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.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
During my short stay in Paramaribo, i had many conversations with this Jawanese Surinamese lady who directed me to deGadri resto by the river for surinamese food and also to…
A euphoric mood is characterized by feelings of strong happiness, excitement, and well-being. It is an amplified sense of pleasure that can have a number of different causes. (from American…
RUMI had entered my life at various stages..the last welcome for Rumi was in Kuala Lumpur when my good friend MYC gave me a copy of the book, The Gift…
Many years ago, the astute physician of south D akota who was also my friend, Dr Jim K, came to visit me in MIami and he made an observation about…
In Miami, it is not just the cars and other vehicles that clutter the air with the noise but more odious is the noise created by the thinking of the…
Perhaps the function of this 24 hour cafeteria is not to serve the public but a place for mourners to sit and wait when their beloveds are bought for interment…
I have a certain fascination with the language that I call my own, even though millions of people speak it, with various adeptness around the world. Some wit had remarked…
One of the pleasures of being back in Miami is to enjoy this vista each morning, while sipping on a good cuban coffee.This view is from the house of Youssef,…
Mr Rajesh Rajan, the manager of the Hotel Travancore Court at Ernakulum had organized a wonderful stay for me in Cochin this time. It was time to say good bye…
After saying Good bye to the pleasant manager of the Tower House Hotel in Fort Cochin, it was time to go to Ernakulum. Mr Rajesh Rajan, manager of the Travancore…
When did Maqroll enter my life? When did Maqroll become me ? the always about to sink steamer Halcyon and the absent minded owner from the Levant Abdur Bashur and…
A week ago I was in Fort Cochin, so full of experiences and feelings. Manolo, as I call the ex-driver who worked at my ex-hotel stays, sent a texts message…
One of the advantages of living in more than one country, is that you feel present and congruous with the pulse of the country and in my case with the…
In France intellectuals have a special place in the society. In my early days living there I was amazed that talk shows featured intellectuals inviting people into their homes for…
PS PLEASE DO NOT MAKE UP YOUR MIND ABOUT CUBANS LIVING IN THE ISLAND BY YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH CUBAN EXPATRIATES IN MIAMI. Cubans (I always mean the Cubans who live…
It was astonishing for me to learn that in recent years 17.5 million americans were being diagnosed with DEPRESSION each year. and the figures are not that far behind in…
How quickly memories of a recent trip fades into the banality of everyday life even if you are surrounded by beauty. Travel is movement, every day life is stationary. My…
vouloir Au sein du coeur Sans honte, sans raison Avec le feu de la passion vouloir Sans regarder en arrière A travers les yeux Toujours et encore plus amour pour…
