Jun 15, 2020
WE WILL MEET AGAIN DAME VERA LYNN ECHOES IN MIAMI
We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do 'Till the blue skies…
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.
Jun 15, 2020
REDISCOVERING BRASILIAN MUSIC
BRASIL has always been in my mind’s horizon. I have been lucky to see a small part of this immensely diverse country, from the Argentina border at Foz do Iguassu…
Jun 15, 2020
A SPECIAL SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI
The Sun has set in Miami, the three stars have appeared, bursting through the still blue skies. Today is a special welcome to the Shabbat I prepare to light the…
Jun 15, 2020
NOT YET READY TO FLY MY FAVOURITE AIRLINE. QATAR AIRWAYS
I was looking through some of my blogs about the multiple journies on Qatar Airways, my favourite airline. I was feeling nostalgic for the lack of QR in my life…
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
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
LA VIDA ES UN SUENO GRACIAS POR LA VIDA. THANKS FOR THIS MAGIC, MY DEAR FRIENDS
Magic days amidst rain and thunder in Miami They had announced it earlier, a storm is forming out on the horizon and one could feel more than normal rain and…
May 15, 2020
OBESITY IN THE LAND OF THE YOGIS. INDIA HAS THE FATTEST AND THE LEANEST …
I have been lucky to include India in my wanderings around the world, despite the fact that my visits are always short lived, a matter of days and it is…
Apr 15, 2020
GOOD BYE COMMENDATORE … HOPE MURAKAMI WINS THE NOBEL PRIZE THIS YEAR ?
A lovely spring day in Miami. The leaves are growing in front of your eyes. Tall trees shadier by the day. On such a day I finished reading Murakami, Haruki's…
Apr 15, 2020
SAUDADE POR QATAR AIRWAYS
It was a nice day in August 2012, when I left the reservation of the UmonHon Indians in the USA and flew from Houston to Doha, connecting to Jakarta. It…
Apr 15, 2020
REDEMPTION SONG… ON THE EVE OF CELEBRATING MY FIRST ONE MAN SEDER WITHOUT A MATZO
It is a wonderfully beautiful full moon night in Miami. Why is this night different from all the other nights? I will tell you I was told to go out…
Apr 15, 2020
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION IN MIAMI …
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION ? NO ANXIETY NO FEAR BUT SHEER JOY OF FRIENDS FROM NEAR AND FAR. 30 APRIL 2020 IN MIAMI WHICH IS UNDER LOCKDOWN The…
Apr 15, 2020
MASKS: THE FEAR OF THE OTHER AND OTHER THOUGHTS OF LIMINALITY
There is no visible symbol in the west that has been associated with another entire hemisphere such as the MASK. People stared at Japanese tourists politely had their masks on…
Apr 15, 2020
SIXTY DAYS WITHOUT A FLIGHT: UNUSUAL BUT UNDERSTANDABLE
Sixty days ago, I arrived in Miami on a flight, and took Share Ride Uber to my sisters house and I have not been back to the airport since. I…
Mar 15, 2020
Le petit poète de Côte Sauvage
Many years ago, I encountered a little poet at Cote Sauvage in the Bretagne peninsula that houses the vacation spot of Quiberon. I have been lucky in that over the…
Mar 15, 2020
LOVE OF THE LANGUAGE. ENGLISH AND LOVE OF THE LANGUAGES. SPANISH FRENCH AND PORTUGUESE
I am a traveller, so it is only natural that I hear various languages in my travels, some common, some uncommon and some rare. The most common languages for me…
Mar 15, 2020
BEDLAM IN USA BUT CALM MINDFUL NIGHT IN MIAMI
People worry that they would be bored if they have to stay home for more than a few days, as most people in this world are forced to do now…
Mar 15, 2020
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THIS EUPHORIA?
What is the origin of this EUPHORIA? It originated somewhere else, but came seeking me .. And I was listening to Alex Fox from Argentina playing his Spanish Guitar I…