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.
Grateful for a good month of travel, friends, good food and family. Highlights were certainly: Malacca in Malaysia Paris Miami Lecture at Oklahoma City Harvest Festival of the Hocank Steve…
I am waiting for the sun to go down so that I can light the candles and welcome 5772.. My family is not with me on this special night: they…
I stepped out of the gymnasium into the pleasantly chilled air of this waning days of the Northern Summer; I could still hear the drums and jingle of the dresses.…
GIFTS FROM OKLAHOMA Oklahoma is a Choctaw word for Okla Red Humma Earth. Oklahoma City feels so neat, organized with a mixture of odl and new architecture, a sense of…
American Indians place a lot of importance on Gratitude, feeling happy with what you have, (and thus not feeling unhappy with what you dont have) and they make a point…
10 am at Heathrow terminal 4 11 am at Paris CDG 1700 in KL Singapour 5 am in La Habana, Miami The flight from Paris to London was delayed because…
Philosophy of the man in Seat 4 D This year, for unknown reasons, I had been assigned to seat 4 D on Lufthansa long haul flights, usually to Asia. It…
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL KINDNESS OF STRANGERS I am spending a few days in Miami, enjoying the sunshine, relaxing at the beaches and eating well. The last item brought me to…
I boarded the flight to Omaha from Detroit Airport. When they announced that volunteers were needed to give up their seats on this flight, I did a quick turn around…
Yoga Sutra 1.21 For the keenly intense seekers progress is steady YOGA AND THE FREQUENT FLIER This was my first flight aboard the new aircraft Airbus 380-800 belonging to Air…
MALAYSIA TO MALAYSIA MY LIFE IN BETWEEN VISITS TO MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. Singapore to Tokyo. Tokyo to London. London to Paris. Paris to Miami. Miami to The Indians,…
Frequent Fliers, Obesity and Heart Disease Gone are the days when flying around the world was a glamorous affair, when flying to distant locale itself had an exciting connotation. Nowadays…
MALAYSIA TO MALAYSIA MY LIFE IN BETWEEN VISITS TO MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. Singapore to Tokyo. Tokyo to London. London to Paris. Paris to Miami. Miami to The Indians,…
COMPLIMENTARY OR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE WHERE DOES YOGA/AYURVEDA/ACUPUNCTURE FIT INTO THIS PUZZLE The predominant discourse about Health in this world, in the developed and developing world is Western Medicine or called…
MINDLESS EATING EXPLAINED USING RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY I do not claim to know a lot of the philosophy behind Raja Yoga, except to say that I am a serious student…
SYMBOLISM AND SPIRITUALITY Today my sister wanted me to go with her, to witness the end of the year ceremonies for her granddaughter who is graduating from Grade III. As…
ALAIN DE BOTTON ON SUCCESS SENSATION OF SUCCESS. ARE YOU A FAILURE? Alain de Botton, the modern day philosopher who writes and talks about Happiness, Work, Love and Philosophy has…
It has been a long time since I have had such a sense of balance in my heart and in my life. As my Hocank Sister would say, “without sacrifice,…
