Feb 15, 2011
Flight of Fleas and Medical Doctors.. is there a Connection?
Fleas can jump two hundred times the length of their own bodies, which is roughly about thirteen inches. If a grown man could jump 200 times the length of their…
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Feb 15, 2011
Racism against SAN Bushmen in Southern Africa
wh en we think of racism and oppression, the picture that comes to our mind is the one meted out by Europeans or those of european ancestry against the native…
Feb 15, 2011
Happy New Year 3.2.2011 to Mexican Kickapoo.. also to Chinese and Vietnamese
Today in 2 February 2011 and I am far removed from the Asian Continent but it was good to receive emails from countries with sizeable Chinese populations and also from…
Feb 15, 2011
Native American Wisdom to live by
I believe that being a medicine man, more than anything else, is a state of mind, a way of looking at and understanding this earth, a sense of what it…
Jan 15, 2011
London Sunday; Paris Monday;Tuesday in Walthill TOLTEC HEAD
This travel blog photo's source is TravelPod page: Mexico City Part 2 But where is Walthill? 12 January 11 the outside temperature is Minus 18 degrees Centigrade. It is going…
Jan 15, 2011
Toi La Bacsi: Vietnam Cross Cultural Medicine at 38 000 feet AF 7770-300
TOI LA BACSI: Cross Cultural Medicine at 38 000 feet I kept on saying to the very old lady, now slumped on her seat. She was flailing her arms and…
Jan 15, 2011
The Four Directions A Formula for Euphoria in Life
THE FOUR DIRECTIONS Happiness Decrease Your Desires Joy in Life Be helpful to others Contentment Be a Hollow Bone through which Spirits would enter the world of Others Be Grateful…
Jan 15, 2011
Food and Beauty in the New Year 1.1.11 Quiberon
Instead of telling you about the revelries of 31 dec, I shall describe the first day of the New Year 2011 which has begun very well. The morning though cold…
Jan 15, 2011
Express your Gratitude, says the American Indian Wisdom
Gratitude List for 2010 As the year 2010 ends, it is good to recollect those people on whose shoulders the great fortune of 2010 came riding to us. Without them,…
Jan 15, 2011
THE FRENCH PARADOX AND THE SLOW DIGESTED CARBOHYDRATES
French Paradox: an additional piece: Slowly digested or Undigested Carbohydrates. Another Piece of the French Paradox: Why French are not fat or have higher Cardiovascular Diseases. Most people working in…
Jan 15, 2011
Globalization in a Paris Suburb: an Anthropological View
Paris Suburbs: Shopping for Everyday Goods Globalization at Work This morning I went shopping in one of the western suburbs of Paris and it was truly a lesson in Globalization…
Jan 15, 2011
Shekhinah or Love of the Universe: Trip from Paris to the Blue House among the Indians
Air France 0636 Boeing 777-300 Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport to Houston International Airport 10 th January 2011 0701 train from Becon les Bruyers in Paris to Gare San…