Nov 15, 2021
RIAD58BLU. MY GOOD LUCK WITH LODGINGS ON MY TRAVELS CONTINUE
Things happen for a reason, we are not smart enough to understand it. This was taught to me by an Indian. I am sure others have said it centuries apart.…
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Nov 15, 2021
MR. VIJAYAN OF BALAJI CAFE IN ERNAKULUM ON HIS LAST JOURNEY
This short paper cutting was forwarded to me from Cochin by the Last Jew of Cochin. He had taken me in 2016, five years ago to meet this remarkable couple,…
Nov 15, 2021
WHEN EVERYTHING LOOKS GLOOMY SOMETHING UNEXPECTED COMES OUT OF THE HORIZON
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…
Nov 15, 2021
I AM A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST. ONCE A WEEK THIS IS WHERE I GO TO WORK
In western medical practice, it is easy to be a curer, a provider of pills. I always wanted to be a healer and to do that you have to be…
Nov 15, 2021
I DONT SPEAK PERSIAN BUT SOME PERSIAN SONGS DANCE AROUND MY HEART. THIS ONE BY SIAVASH GHOMAYSHI
I had driven north from Miami to be with my dear friends M & G. A very long conversation, broken only for a nouvelle americain cuisine dinner, followed, blessed by…
Oct 15, 2021
DIA DE LOS MEDICOS. THE DAY OF THE DOCTORS. TODAY 23 OCTOBER IN MEXICO
Nice to wake up to a warm message from Mexico. My dear friend and colleague, Dra. Estela had written: Mil felicidades, que te sigas iluminando con tu gran inteligencia, te…
Oct 15, 2021
SYMBOLIC HEALING
In the West (and those developing countries influenced by it), healing systems of their culture is considered absolute and the others given the collective nomenclature: Complementary or alternative. The western…
Oct 15, 2021
THE DAY AFTER THE FULL MOON NIGHT
Photographs of the Full Moon kept on coming.. The full moon under a blue sky in the National Park where the indigenous people live The full moon was still visible…
Oct 15, 2021
A VERY SPECIAL FULL MOON 20 OCTOBER 2021
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…
Oct 15, 2021
SOMEHOW GENE THIN ELK CAME INTO MY THOUGHTS THIS AFTERNOON.. HE IS AN INSTITUTION IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY
I had the opportunity to work with a Native Psychologist from the University of South Dakota in the USA and one day he invited me to come to Vermillion where…
Oct 15, 2021
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI.. WHEN YOU PRAY, PLEASE KEEP MY NAME IN YOUR PRAYERS, SAID MY FRIEND FROM SUDAN
There are some people whose presence in your life is mutually joyous, we bring joy to each other. I feel happy whenever I see you, said Avi, born in Khartoum,…
Oct 15, 2021
LANGUOROUS TROPICAL AFTERNOON.. AND A NICE PERUVIAN LUNCH..
Not too far from the city of Miami, lies the erstwhile agricultural district of Redlands. It is such a change in scenery, physical and emotional leaving the cuban-heavy Miami ambiance…