Jul 15, 2020
A GOOD DAY FOR NATIVE AMERICA
Supreme Court rules much of Eastern Oklahoma is tribal land Landmark case upholds claim by Muscogee Nation the territory, now home to 1.8 million people, is Native American land. The…
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Jul 15, 2020
Good bye Queen of the skies. She still calls Australia home
Even though I have not returned to Australia after my two trips in 2008, I keep abreast of what is happening in Australia. I am grateful for the enormous influence…
Jul 15, 2020
PERSIAN POETRY: ALWAYS GOOD TO READ POETRY FROM IRAN .. MEDIEVAL TIMES TO NOW ..BY WOMEN
AH IRAN IN MY HEART .. The Mirror of My Heart (Bilingual Edition): A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women Hardcover – May 19, 2020 by Rabe`eh Balkhi (Author),…
Jul 15, 2020
THE BIG TECH BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU ….
We are living through a strange ? period of time, a difficult ? period of time, or profitable? period of time? I suppose it depends who do you ask .…
Jul 15, 2020
A STRICTLY BIOMEDICAL BLOG… WITH NO ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMMENTS…
Are All Type 2 Diabetes Medications Created Equal? Daniel D. Dressler, MD, MSc, MHM, FACP reviewing Tsapas A et al. Ann Intern Med 2020 Jun 30 For high-risk patients, some…
Jul 15, 2020
IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY, YOU WILL SEE SOMETHING HIDDEN INSIDE THEM
I have a friend in Dali City, Yunnan. The scenery is nothing like what we associate with China with its industries, crowded cities and glittering lights. Tranquil mountains, streams and…
Jul 15, 2020
THE MORNING HAS RISEN IN MIAMI…. IT IS NICE TO WAKE UP THE SUN …
The last scene in a movie that I remember as an adolescent, Orfeo Negro, one boy persuading another to play the guitar so that the Sun will rise over the…
Jul 15, 2020
POLITICANS AND OPPRESSORS SHOULD NOT USE THE WORD. FREEDOM AND WE SHOULD NOT LOVE WITHOUT LOVE
I am reminded Who taught me this poem, I cannot remember Was the poet laureate of Baracoa, the one who walks with a grin as big as a begonia? I…
Jul 15, 2020
KNOW YOUR GENES, KNOW YOUR CULTURE AND THAT IS YOUR NUTRITION .. NO ONE SINGLE NUTRITIONAL ADVICE FITS EVERY ONE
When I finished my training as an Endocrinologist, my knowledge about Nutrition was biblically minute, it could have been written down on a grain of rice! Very little training about…
Jul 15, 2020
LA BELLE DAME SANS REGRETS. NOTHING TO LOSE WHEN YOU CAN DANCE AND HAVE THE MUSIC TO DO SO
Tropics are like hammocks for lovers, was it Anais Nin (French-Cuban) who said that when she and Arthur Miller were lovers in Paris ? There is a word in English…
Jul 15, 2020
FULL MOON OVER MIAMI. … MY GOOD WISHES TO MY FRIENDS IN CUBA, BRASIL, IRAN, MALAYSIA, INDIA, FRANCE AMONG OTHERS
photos taken from the backyard of my sister's house in Miami. The sun sets later at this time of this year in Miami, around 8 15 pm and it is…
Jul 15, 2020
READING SHAMLOU IN MIAMI IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES ..
I think of Ahmad Shamlou in the same manner I think of Pablo Neruda of Chile and Pramoedya Ananta Toer of Indonesia . All suffered for their beliefs. But they…