Dec 15, 2011
LEMBRANCAS DA CESARIA EVORA
Delta Lounge at EWR. I am there because of my FB status and I am flying AF that day to Paris. The Filipino attendant was organizing the newspapers that had…
Stories
Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Dec 15, 2011
ENDANGERED SPECIES this time LANGUAGES
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ENDANGERED SPECIES THIS TIME LANGUAGES When we think of Endangered Languages, we usually think of isolated tribes in inaccessible regions of the…
Dec 15, 2011
Gauguin Pont Avon Breton Biscuits and Chocolates
GAUGUIN AMBIENTE GALETAS Y PINTURAS PONT AVON In the 19 th century, American artists not having a school of paintings to belong to flocked to France. They found Pont Avon,…
Dec 15, 2011
How to become a Better Person: Think with your Heart
I have noticed, as I learn more about comparative philosophies that at a deeper level they tend to merge. There are no competition involved here, it is said in their…
Nov 15, 2011
Sad to Leave my Lakota friends at Eagle Butte, South Dakota
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe was one of the first tribes that I had encountered when I ventured into the Indian country as a newly minted Endocrinologist.This past week I was…
Nov 15, 2011
YOGA IS NO BETTER THAN STRETCHING EXERCISES
shows two scientific studies published in two leading medical journals in the USA! But let me explain... When I became interested in the Yoga Philosophy of Ancient India, I also…
Nov 15, 2011
Together to Control Diabetes TEAM UP of the HOCANK Tribe
with visiting Lecturer, Darryl Tonemah, who talked about Psychological aspects of chronic Disease like Diabetes. seen also in the picture are HoCanks, Fred Harden and Chris Grezlik. This two day…
Nov 15, 2011
INTENSE DAYS IN LA HABANA,CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INTENSE DAYS IN LA HABANA How does a society affect the character of individuals in that society, such that he or she…
Nov 15, 2011
The Delights of Being in CUBA…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It is 1 AM in the morning and we have just finished our conversations, covering a myriad of subjects and the entire…
Nov 15, 2011
PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING IN HAVANA, CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Fieldwork in Immersion Philosophical Counselling The reality of Cuba is to be experienced and understood and not enjoyed only from the comforts…
Nov 15, 2011
Advance Australia Fair.. not for the Pommies it looks like
Increasing number of British Migrants are leaving Australia to go HOME! Something like this would have been unheard of when we were growing up..What has happened? Has Oz gone sour?…
Nov 15, 2011
THANKSGIVING DAY OR INVASION DAY
I have been visiting USA on a regular basis, continuing my long standing association with the Native Indian populations. I try not to spend any of their public holidays there…
Nov 15, 2011
Experimental Philosophy of Everyday Life
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Experimental Philosophy of Everyday Life Following closely the real life adventures in Thought Experiments of my dear friend MC-a mixture of self-realization,…
Oct 15, 2011
Cross Cultural Sensitivity and my Kickapoo friends
I have been fortunate to have been friends with the Traditional Kickpoos with current homelands in Eagle Pass Texas and Nacimiento Mexico. They were originally in the Green Bay area…
Oct 15, 2011
Kickapoo Friends Visit Florida
spending three days with my two Traditional Kickapoo friends from Eagle Pass, Texas/Nacimiento, Mexico was a great pleasure indeed. It made me wonder how these remnants and descendants of ancient…
Oct 15, 2011
STEVE JOBS IN TEHERAN
Steve Jobs in Teheran This morning I received an email from Teheran, Iran: Steve Jobs has died. The news made every one sad, even here in Iran, where few people…
Oct 15, 2011
Food for the Kickapoo.. in South Florida
The Traditional Kickapoo Tribe with their homes in Eagle Pass, Texas in Maverick County and Nacimiento in Coahuila, Mexico is one of the few tribes in North America with dual…
Oct 15, 2011
SHANA TOVAH 5772 TO JEWS INSIDE IRAN: SHAMLOO AND NAFISI
POEM BY SHAMLOO. SUNG BY NAFISI. THE THIRD PHOTOGRAPH IS THE CHABAD HOUSE IN CAMBODIA.. SHANA TOVA TO THE JEWS OF IRAN WHERE THEY HAVE LIVED FOR 3000 YEARS. The…