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…
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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…
Nov 15, 2021
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO CUBA? HOW CAN I GO HOME?
Today is November 15, 2021 and flights to Cuba will commence after a very long shut down. But checking at the airfares to Havana from Miami, you would notice that…
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…
Oct 15, 2021
EMOTIONAL LINKS TO WORK AMIDST THE PANDEMIC ISOLATION
I enjoy my drive to work, a leisurely drive, and on reasonably deserted road, not too far from the town where I am staying. I never get tired of looking…
Oct 15, 2021
THINKING OF ERWIN FRENKEL , WHAT ALL WILL HAPPEN IN THE COURSE OF A DAY
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…
Oct 15, 2021
iVAN ILLICH. THE MEDICAL NEMESIS
CUERNAVACA, MEXICO is so full of longings. No puedo vivir sin amor, laments the alcoholic ex-British consul played by that great actor Albert Finney in Malcolm Lowery's book Under the…
Oct 15, 2021
CASUALIDAD NO ES TAN CASUAL.. AS INDIANS SAY, THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON, MAY BE YOU ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND
Things have a reason for happening. A colleague who seldom talks about travel, sent me this I am on my way to Israel. It is fully vaccinated, as close to…