Mar 15, 2017
NEW FRIENDS IN LA HABANA, CUBA
If you cannot make friends in Havana, you better get yourself checked out, something is wrong! It is such a friendly country with such approachable people, such an educated country…
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Mar 15, 2017
TOURISTS AND THEIR TOUR GUIDE IN HAVANA MARCH 2017
Tourists and The Tour Guide in HAVANA For fifteen days in the month of March, I had friends visiting me, from three different cultural milieus in USA..A Native American couple…
Feb 15, 2017
ETERNAL LOVE FOR CHE GUEVARA
There is not a single child in Cuba who cannot recognize the face of Ernesto CHE Guevara de la Sarna Lynch, the only person, an Argentine, who had been granted…
Feb 15, 2017
SADHGURU’S TEN TIPS FOR HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS
Like many other things, Philosophy also arrived by the back door in my life. Never took a course in Philosophy but sitting on the banks of the River Seine in…
Feb 15, 2017
HOW TO FIND HAPPINESS IN HAVANA
HOW TO FIND HAPPINESS IN HAVANA AVOID FOREIGNERS AND TOURISTS Unless you are a tourist or an expatriate, one does not ordinarily encounter them, if you are resident in Miami…
Feb 15, 2017
WIND THE COLOUR OF THE FURY OF THE MOUNTAINS
I am in the hamlet of Walthill in North Eastern part of Nebraska, part of the UmonHon Indian reservation. Last night a snow storm passed through this region, dumped about…
Feb 15, 2017
FALSE INDIANS OF CUBA
I had presented at a Latin American Congress of Academics my findings about the FALSE TAINOS of Baracoa. People who have some genetic admixture of Native Blood in Cuba (estimated…
Feb 15, 2017
Now That Cuba Is Open, Americans Aren’t Going
Now That Cuba Is Open, Americans Aren’t Going an interesting article published in Bloomberg News https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/now-that-cuba-is-open-americans-aren-t-going
Feb 15, 2017
WARNING TO VISITORS TO HAVANA AND CUBA
WARNING TO VISITORS TO CUBA Recently there was an article in the American Media to avoid certain places in Cuba... and it included the tourist ghetto of Varadero, the false…
Feb 15, 2017
THE MAGNANIMOUS MALAYALEES OF COCHIN
THE MAGNANIMOUS MALAYALEES OF FORT COCHIN During my ongoing visits to Fort Cochin, I have met some wonderful friends, and I must say some of them have become good friends.…
Feb 15, 2017
A MAN WHO DOES NOT LIKE TO TAKE THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE DESTINATION: THE MINDFUL JOURNEY ITSELF IS IMPORTANT
It is a Friday evening at 8 30 pm, I am at the Executive Club 4 th floor at the Madrid Barajas Airport Hilton Hotel. It is 230 pm in…
Jan 15, 2017
SUBURBAN SHAMAN WHY DOCTORS SHOULD REGAIN THE HUMAN ASPECT OF MEDICINE FROM THEIR PAPERS AND PODS
Oliver Sacks wrote in the Introduction to this book: Cecil Helman is many things: old-fashioned General (Family) Practitioner, psychiatrist, cultural anthropologist, storyteller, poet and artist-and all this comes together in…