Dec 15, 2021
A NICE DAY OF FRIENDSHIP. SOUTH FLORIDA IN USA
My closest friends in South Florida live 120 km north from where I stay in Miami. The Highway takes you there in less than an hour and half, allowing me…
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Dec 15, 2021
A GOOD DAY TO BE GRATEFUL, BE AWARE THAT YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING, DISTANCE FROM ATTACHMENT
I am at this large house by myself. Tranquil able to concentrate and to think. also realize who your friends are and who would be there for you Mr Carlos…
Dec 15, 2021
A MIXTURE OF NOSTALGIA, INCREDIBLE SILENCE AND MIND READY FOR VIPASSANA
There is a soothing quality to this silence in the house It is night outside, the time the hour and the minute does not matter Some friends are awake and…
Dec 15, 2021
A LOVELY DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ANTHROPOLOGIST, SO MUCH PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION OF INDIGENOUS AND NON INDIGENOUS LIFE
What all happens in the course of a day? asked the poet. Each day is an unexpected gift, you may meet someone new, taught my erudite jewish teacher in Melbourne,…
Dec 15, 2021
A WONDERFUL BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE WITHIN THE PANDEMIC: OZONE THERAPY. EXERCISE WITH NATIVE TRAINERS. VIPASSANA
Today has been a good day.. Was it the Ozone therapy that I received over the weekend or the wonderful meals? of the pleasure of talking to an Indian Elder?…
Nov 15, 2021
WHEN EVERYTHING LOOKS GLOOMY SOMETHING UNEXPECTED COMES OUT OF THE HORIZON
It is incredible when things look gloomy something comes out of nowhere to offer you consolation. I rather be in Cuba but I am in Miami. fortunately I work with…
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…
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…
Nov 15, 2021
SPENDING TIME WITH GOOD FRIENDS IS A TREASURE OF LIFE
The Covid 19 isolation has affected every one and it is now slowly coming coming unbundled. Our fears are now confronted by science and we all have been vaccinated which…
Nov 15, 2021
EATING IN MARRAKECH. I PROMISED TO EAT ONLY MOROCCAN FOOD DURING MY STAY AND IT WAS EASY
I cannot imagine eating Italian food in Kuala Lumpur or Burgers in Cochin or not to indulge in khmer cuisine in Siem Reap or not to savour the sumptuous flavours…
Nov 15, 2021
MY MOROCCAN JEWISH CONNECTION: NOW WE ARE ALL JEWS
When I arrived in MIami to do postgraduate work in Endocrinology, one of my colleagues at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital was a Panamanian Jew by the name of…
Nov 15, 2021
THE MELLAH OF MARRAKECH, THE JEWISH QUARTER OF MARRAKECH MOROCCO
On my first full day in Marrakech I decided to visit and savour the Jewish Quarter or MELLAH of Marrakech. I was staying at a Riad in the Medina and…