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…
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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.
Feb 15, 2020
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM LA HABANA, CUBA
I enjoy this surrealistic life in Havana, Cuba . We go to a Pharmacy and the attendant is very warm and helpful, but the answer to: Do you have ...…
Feb 15, 2020
DISEASE. ILLNESS SICKNESS. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE, ASKED A FRIEND
The normally Mediterranean-style climate of La Habana took a turn with the arrival of a cold front, a frente frio, from the North, The temperature dropped to 21C, the change…
Feb 15, 2020
LOVE OF THE LANGUAGE. ENGLISH! PLEASE NOTE IT IS SO EASY TO SPEAK IT BADLY
ENTOMOLOGY would have been one of the first words in my vocabulary that I could remember as a child. But what was the path to that knowledge? What language did…
Jan 15, 2020
ARE THERE ANGELS IN PARADISE? AT BRISTOW BUNGALOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL THERE CERTAINLY ARE
I am at the very same place , when a Tibetan Monk walked into the Breakfast room and we had a nice chat. It was October 5,2019. Things began happening…
Jan 15, 2020
AYURVEDIC MASSAGE AT THE OLD LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL FORT COCHIN BY MR JOHNSON
First of all the context: I remember overhearing a tourist planning his day: one hour of massage, then two hours sightseeing in Mattancherry and then one hour bus ride for…
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…
Jan 15, 2020
ARRIVING IN MUSCAT OMAN A VERY NICE WELCOME FEELING
Oman has always a special place in my heart. I came to Salalah in Southern Oman in search of Cheng Ho/ Zheng He the great navigator and my first visit…
Jan 15, 2020
OMAN THE NICEST FRIENDLIEST COUNTRY IN WEST ASIA
I wanted to say that OMAN is the friendliest Muslim country that I have ever visited, but then I realized that the friendly nature of the Omanis have very little…
Jan 15, 2020
OMAN AIR LOUNGE AT MUSCAT AND YET ANOTHER SURPRISE
Lots of nice things have happened to me in Oman during my various visits and this visit (today I leave for Paris on my way to Miami and then Havana)…
Jan 15, 2020
A NEW FAVOURITE HOTEL TO COME BACK TO : HILTON GARDEN INN IN MUSCAT, OMAN
The sultanate of Oman is without doubt my favourite Muslim country, the friendliest Arab country that I have visited. The Omani people are just friendly open humble and very hospitable.…
Jan 15, 2020
WHAT ALL HAS HAPPENED IN ONE WEEK . 4TH JAN IN MALA KERALA TO 11TH JANUARY IN MIAMI USA
Today is a Saturday, 11.1.2020 and the morning is lovely and tender here in Miami. I arrived here yesterday evening after a long and tedious flight on American Airlines (on…
Jan 15, 2020
GOOD BYE, SULTAN QABOOS MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE
There was a time when there were multiple Sultanates in this world, most of which have disappeared or become ornamental, such as Sultan of Ternate or Sultan of Yogyakarta..Only two…
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…
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…
Jan 15, 2020
EXCITING TIMES FOR AN ENDOCRINE PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I am a Physician specializing in Endocrinology, which is a specialty which has always been micro-molecular in its outlook and depth. As…
Dec 15, 2019
BIENVENIDOS DR DIAZ WELCOME DR DIAZ .
Welcome, Dr. Diaz A former director of the National Institute of Endocrinology and a well respected academic came to my little flat in La Habana for dinner and spend a…
Dec 15, 2019
WHEN I AM EATING, I KNOW I AM EATING…
I have had a few wonderful days here in La Habana. As the city and the country evolves, from one drama to the next, my own life here gets better…