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…
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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
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…
Jan 15, 2017
RIAD HAMDANI, CASABLANCA: MOROCCAN MINT TEA AT MIDNIGHT
RIAD HAMDANI, CASABLANCA: MOROCCAN MINT TEA AT MIDNIGHT 26 December 2016 The flight is about to leave Casablanca for its 6 hours 40 minutes flight to Hamad International Airport in…
Jan 15, 2017
WISDOM FOR AN ICY CHILLY MORNING
“Wherever you have friends, that’s your country. Wherever you receive love, that’s your home. Whoever gives you love, that’s your parent.” – Tibetan saying. As quoted by the Dalai Lama.…
Jan 15, 2017
WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY, A TEACHER WOULD APPEAR : SIMILARITY BETWEEN YOGIC AND NATIVE AMERICAN UNDERSTANDINGS
The portrait above is that of the Great Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota. I had spent this weekend indoors. While this house is in an isolated part of the…
Jan 15, 2017
FIX YOURSELF TO FACE THE PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT YOU
16 January 2017 It is that time of the year in these Plains. Leaves had already fallen into oblivion and the stark trees pait themselves against the grey canvas of…
Jan 15, 2017
A TIME FOR SAUDADE
The mercury has not crossed the zero, outside it is an eery silence, the roads of this hamlet gleam, the ice thick as paste. No humans in sight, no vehicles,…
Jan 15, 2017
A TIME CAPSULE OF PHOTOS FROM COCHIN
I have been travelling regularly to Cochins since 2004 and I had chronicled my travels and photographs in the website The Virtualtourist, which was acquired by Trip Advisor and now…
Jan 15, 2017
THE BEST AND WORST PASSPORTS TO HAVE: A METAPHOR FOR OUR WORLD IN CONFLICT
I am very happy to see Singapore and Malaysia in this list, I think it is because of their active diplomacy. For example, Malaysia is one of the few countries…