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.
SADHGURU the Indian mystic was in Dubai on the Full Moon night talking about Prana Vayu and this time about UDANA.. floating around, not allowing the composition of the body…
It is incredible when things look gloomy something comes out of nowhere to offer you consolation. I rather be in Cuba but I am in Miami. fortunately I work with…
Today has been a lovely day No one to disturb my peace, near and far A nice sensation when one is able to help, the philanthropy of time and knowledge…
A good friend of mine wrote: I developed a pinpoint rash on my left lower leg in early 2017. In September 2017, I developed a total body rash and saw…
A Somali film exploring what people will do for love has won the grand prize at the prestigious Pan-African film festival in Burkina Faso. This is a prestigious film festival…
It has been raining with accompanying thunder in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The State of Kerala in India is inundated floods. SriRacha, Chon Buri in Thailand has gusty winds and cloudy…
While growing up, one of the more interesting person, a truly erudite person, that I met was Erwin F. I do not remember meeting him more than two or three…
I am not a fan of watching sports on TV but I like to be abreast of what is happening, especially from an anthropological point of view. When we were…
Last night, it was Erev Yom Kippur, the beginning of the day of atonement. I had been with the Indians are hurried home before the sunset, missing the opening hours…
Saturday, September 11, 2021 Miami Remembering the Terrorist Event 20 years ago in which we all lost so much: mainly an innocence. It was a pivotal moment for those with…
Brittany much like Wales with which it shares some pre historic connections is a motoring country. Quiberon is a popular spot for French visitors and at this time of the…
I was a very naive student from Australia. Invited to attend a meeting of the World Union of Jewish Students! Imagine a colonial australian boy with no exposure to the…
I have been in this small Breton city/large village of Quiberon which is very tourist oriented, but I had come to visit people who live here. Our meals are usually…
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE ON THIS BASTILLE DAY 2021 It was nice to watch the pomp and elegance of the Bastille Day parade along the Champs des Elysees…
I have worked with Indigenous people in many parts of the world but Indians of North America are especially closer to my heart. I have gotten to know them better,…
I am not sure which one of my professors at the University of Melbourne teaching hospital told me: Choose a specialty that suits your personality. I had observed the various…
We are always grateful for friends from yore who introduced us to books or poems or countries or ways of thinking. We are the collective expressions of so many of…
I have had two days of absolute tranquility, calm and mental balance. No one else is in this house, I have my coffee at the patio looking at the green…
