Field Notes – Page 3 – Before the Cure

Jan 15, 2026

Dark Night, Whirlpools, and the Limits of Consolation

A meditation after Hafez on grief, uncertainty, and the limits of easy consolation.

Jan 15, 2026

Iran, Silence, and Waiting

A reflection on internet silence, distance, and the anxious waiting that follows when friends disappear from contact.

Jan 15, 2026

When Empathy Erodes: An Anthropological Warning

An anthropological warning about the quiet social decline that begins when empathy weakens.

Jan 15, 2026

Thinking of My Friends and Lovers in the Land of Fars

A note on Iran, friendship, meditation, and the discipline of holding one’s mind steady in difficult days.

Jan 15, 2026

Travels in 2025, Hopes for More Travels in 2026

A year-end travel reflection on movement, memory, and the places that shaped the year.

Jan 15, 2026

Empathy, Compassion, and Respect for the Other

Empathy, Compassion, and Respect for the Other In the span of a single week, events have unfolded with such density that one has the uneasy feeling that the political architecture…

Dec 15, 2025

Worldliness as Cultural Capital: Notes on International Childhood

A reflection on international childhood, independence, and the early-acquired cultural capital that shapes how children move through the world.

Dec 15, 2025

Babies Without Diapers: What the Amazon Teaches Us About Care

Along the vast arteries of the Amazon River, Indigenous societies have raised infants for millennia without what the modern world considers indispensable: diapers. This is not an absence born of…

Nov 15, 2025

I Am an Exile Only Because I Have No Desire to Return

A meditation on Istanbul, memory, wandering, and the strange freedom of exile without nostalgia for return.

Nov 15, 2025

It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly

It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly by Yehuda Kovesh MD (London), FRAI (London) A Frenchman’s Remark A French academician once observed: “English is a language that is…