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Epigraph “I am nothing. I shall always be nothing. I cannot wish to be anything. Aside from that, I carry within me all the dreams of the world.” — Fernando…
Things happen for a reason, we are not smart enough to understand it. This was taught to me by an Indian. I am sure others have said it centuries apart.…
Who are you, anyway? IDENTITY AND SEARCH FOR A COMMUNITY A TALE OF A TRAVELLER In the New World, especially the Anglo-Saxon, English speaking conglomeration of USA/CANADA/AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND, the superficial…
“To travel is to feel.” — Fernando Pessoa I went to Pinecrest today, though it no longer exists. Not in the way that towns exist—with a centre, a rhythm, a…
What Did the Medicine Man Say? “Humility is not thinking less of oneself; it is thinking of oneself less.” — Ancient teaching often repeated among Indigenous elders It took me…
I was in Cochin, the bombings in the middle east had begun and every single flight going west out of Cochin was cancelled. I had a flight to Doha and…
So much has changed in the span of days. Of all that unfolds around me, the one realm still within my command is my own mind—my response, my interior weather.…
Worldliness as Cultural Capital: Notes on International Childhood What appears at first glance as precocious independence among certain children is, on closer inspection, a form of early-acquired cultural capital ,…
HAPPY SPRING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH OF MEHR IN IRAN AND ALSO The Mehregan Festival, or the Persian Festival of Autumn, is an ancient celebration…
Port San Gustain is a port in Brittany with an illustrious past. The current day village is a charming one on one of the estuaries in the Bay in Brittany…
The only Biennale in all of India is held in Cochin and is currently on. I recently made a visit to Fort Cochin to check out certain friendships and visiting…
SONATA WITH SOME PINE TREES BY PABLO NERUDA PABLO NERUDA: Sonata with Some Pine Trees In the half-sun of long days let us draw our tired bones together let us…
I always had an interest in knowing the history of ancient jewish communities which for various reasons disappear over the course of time. Since the establishment of the Jewish State…
I am not a fan of watching sports on TV but I like to be abreast of what is happening, especially from an anthropological point of view. When we were…
The sentence: Mission oriented rather than mercenary approach and in the end Missionary approach wins.. is from Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com I will tell you about a personal…
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…
0 0 1 475 2712 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 22 6 3181 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Coming Home to Havana The flight from…
Whenever I see a LIST of places to visit, hotels to enjoy, or the word BucketList, I think of it as a clue to avoid those places. But not when…
THE Flagship Lounge at Chicago Airport at this time of the morning is full of Japanese travellers waiting for their flight Japan Airlines 9, and to day I will be…
It took me forty four hours of travel By car from the Indian Reservation to the airport in Omaha, Nebraska and then a short flight to Chicago. Waited for the…
Just twenty four hours ago, I left the crowded, unruly Terminal 2 of the Jose Marti International Airport in La Habana to arrive in the crowded, unruly but more diverse…
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES: WHY IT MAY FOLD! Simple things about an enterprise or a government give clues to why it is bound to fail or succeed. Why has Pakistan failed so…
I am very lucky to be associated with Maurits and his tireless efforts through Mo Po Tsyo (mopotsyo.org) to control diabetes among the less served and very poor in the…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Welcome to Eagle Pass. Texas and the Hairstylist Olguita, from Mexico and the Pedi/Manicurist Heidi(Phuong) from Soc Trang, Vietnam. When you are…