May 15, 2020
FELIZ DIA DE LAS MADRES , MI ISLA RICA, MI CUBA
Today Mother’s Day is celebrated in Cuba, along with many other countries in this hemisphere and elsewhere. If you ask a Cuba, what is the most precious thing in their…
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May 15, 2020
WHAT ALL HAPPENS IN THE COURSE OF A DAY
I became aware of both masculine and feminine sides of both sexes very early on life, in heterosexual people. When in medical school, you could see the faculty, masculine and…
May 15, 2020
THE NIGHT OF FULL MOON, TENDER AND RAW EMOTIONS AND SAUDADE
During these days of tranquility and silence, I have been able to experience solitude and emotions in their rawest form. Emotions so raw and tender that tears flow. While cities…
May 15, 2020
ORFEU NEGRO. BLACK ORPHEUS DANCING IN MY HEART
It is raining in Miami. Nothing unusual at this time of the year. Moments like this From unknown places A song would drift in I know I am in for…
May 15, 2020
IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE, SET THEM FREE ..
MONOCLE is one of my favourite magazines and they send a daily sniff of their diverse interests around the world. It is truly international in that you get an anthropological…
May 15, 2020
MELEYKH VISWANATH AN ERUDITE INDIAN JEW AND TAMOUL AND YIDDISCH CONNECTION .
For young translator of sold-out ‘Harry Potter,’ Yiddish is truly his mamaloshen How Arun Viswanath, the 29-year-old scion of a US literary dynasty, translated series opener ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ into…
May 15, 2020
ALL BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
It was a clear morning. I was running a little late, driving from the house where I stay, while I am in the Reservation of the Indians. I was there…
Apr 15, 2020
MALAYA MONGOLIA AND THE MASK. THE STORY OF DR WU LIEN TEH OF PENANG,
MALAYSIA, MONGOLIA AND THE MASK HISTORY OF THE FACE MASK Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are. Its title is an Armenian proverb;…
Apr 15, 2020
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 I have had the pleasure of visiting Indigenous groups in most of the…
Apr 15, 2020
LIMBO VS LIMINALITY. THE METAPHOR FOR OUR PLANET
Limbo vs Liminality These two words have tremendous significance and relevance in the situation we are going through and the state of our societies even before the calamities stepped in…
Apr 15, 2020
THRIFTY GENE, DR.MARCELA LeBEAU AND SNP ON ABCA1 GENE: A CENTURY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND DIABETES
Thrifty Gene, Dr. Marcela LeBeau and SNP on ABCA1 gene. A century of American Indians and Diabetes When I first read about J.V.Neel’s Thrifty gene theory, I was immediately attracted…
Apr 15, 2020
THANK YOU AMAZON PRIME ….BRING ME THE MATZO ON TIME
Whenever I mention Amazon, you know I am talking about my projects with the Indigenous peoples along the magnificent river Amazon Not this time this time about Amazon Prime delivery..…