Jun 15, 2020
MOON OVER THE AMAZON
Puerto Narino in the Colombian Amazonia is a planned village. The town was founded on 1961 August 18 by a doctor named Jose Humberto Espejo Hernandez. It is an ecological…
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.
Jun 15, 2020
WHAT IS YOUR RISK OF DYING FROM COVID IN AMERICA. BE WHITE LIVE IN A LEAFY SUBURB GET YOUR FOOD DELIVERED AND DONT FORGET THE WINE
WHO IS DYING FROM COVID 19 WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU IN ? CUBA OR INDONESIA , VIETNAM OR BANGLADESH IN THE USA, WHAT IS YOUR INCOME? WHAT IS YOUR COLOUR?…
Jun 15, 2020
INDIGENOUS SURVIVAL IN LATIN AMERICA. PABLO ALBARENGA OF URUGUAY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
The winners of the professional category of the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, with Pablo Albarenga named as Photographer of the Year for his work on indigenous…
Jun 15, 2020
WHEN THEY CANT HANDLE A SOCIAL CRISIS WELL, MALE LEADERS HAND OVER LEADERSHIP TO WOMEN
The Covid 19 pandemic has revealed many wrongful aspects of our societies. We tend to concentrate on the disparity of wealth, social order and race relations. One positive aspect that…
Jun 15, 2020
AMAZONIA AND COVID 19 VIRUS
I was talking to a good friend of mine who is living at the end of border of Colombian Amazon, at Puerto Narino. There had been a few cases of…
Jun 15, 2020
RACISM.. AT LAST A RAY OF HOPE TO END THIS INEQUITY OF CENTURIES . COVID 19 MADE ONE THING CLEAR. USA IS A RACIST COUNTRY
Currently, despite being approximately 13% of the U.S. population, blacks constitute only 5% of all doctors and 10% of nurses. The Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Black Health Care Workers…
Jun 15, 2020
RACISM WITHIN RACISM.. ALL OF US WHO ARE NOT BLACK AND ARE PRIVILEGED MUST DENOUNCE RACISM
The above video uploaded and already has garnered millions of views. It touches on a subject that we might pretend that does not exist , he is a second generation…
Jun 15, 2020
HAPPY BIRTHDAY. ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA 14 JUNE 1928 ROSARIO ARGENTINA
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. Ernesto CHE Guevara de la Sarna Lynch 14.06.1928. Rosario, Argentina. In faraway Australia, I was…
Jun 15, 2020
MEMORIAS, SAUDADES Y SENTIMIENTOS… A RAINY EVENING IN MIAMI GRAY SKIES BRIGHT RED PONCIANAS WHITE PLUMERIAS AND LIGHT CARESSING RAIN
Natalie d'Arbeloff Born in Paris, raised in Europe, Paraguay, Brazil and the USA, Natalie d’Arbeloff speaks those languages and lives in London. Her father was Russian and her mother French.…
Jun 15, 2020
ARE YOU A HENOTHEIST? I CERTAINLY AM, SAID THE JEW
It took me a while to get used to the erudite writing style of the South Asian-American scholar, Anu Garg. I am passionate about my language, I am not sure…
Jun 15, 2020
YET ANOTHER GIFT FROM THE START UP NATION ISRAEL TO THE WORLD
ISRAEL is called START UP NATION Israel has earned the nickname “Startup Nation” for a very good reason: With a population of around 8.5 million, it has the largest number…
Jun 15, 2020
TEDMED TALK ON GENERIC MEDICATIONS.
This investigative reporting about Generic Drugs is deeply disturbing. It was on TedMed, a forum very highly respected and the lecture was given by an investigator who spent years trying…
Jun 15, 2020
IRAN IN MY HEART, ALWAYS AND IT SHOULD BE IN YOUR HEARTS TOO… LISTEN TO THIS VIDEO
My love for Iran is as old as myself, from stories transmitted to me as a child some of which I remember. While a teenager, on a exchange course of…
Jun 15, 2020
WE WILL MEET AGAIN DAME VERA LYNN ECHOES IN MIAMI
We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do 'Till the blue skies…
Jun 15, 2020
AMALIA RODRIGUES, LISBOA; CARLOS GARDEL, BUENOS AIRES; P. RAMLEE, KUALA LUMPUR; UMM AL KHALTHOUM EL KAHIRA
After writing a blog about Dame Vera Lynn who passed away on 18/6/2020, I thought of other icons of music from other countries that I could think of and also…
Jun 15, 2020
STAY AT HOME AND PRAY AT HOME OR DO NOT PRAY AT ALL. TO AVOID DYING FROM COVID19. UK DATA
Overall, the coronavirus mortality rate was highest among Muslims, followed by Hindus, Jews and Sikhs, while those who say they have no religion had the lowest death rate among religious…
Jun 15, 2020
CENTURIES OLD ADVICE FROM A WISE MAN AND POET OF IRAN. SA’DI
We are passing through unusual times. The code of behaviour to other people have changed. On top of it, the flowering of an anti-racist movement has added yet another glittered…
Jun 15, 2020
VISIT TO A GHOST TOWN. MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
I know this airport so well.. and i could not believe what I saw today. all concourses were empty, no agents nor any identification of any airlines, hardly any human…