Aug 15, 2021
TWO UMONHON INDIAN RELATIVES COME TO VISIT
Two UmonHon Indian relatives dropped in for a lovely short visit! I had not seen them since November 2018, but for a period of 3 years we saw each other…
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.
Aug 15, 2021
WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS ..
A favourite cult film among students was the classic CASABLANCA. and there is a line We will always have Paris .. Rick Blaine: Now, you've got to listen to me!…
Aug 15, 2021
AN ENJOYABLE DAY AT THE COUNTRYSIDE.. A MEGALITH VISIT THROWN IN, A NICE DINNER AND SOME NEW FRIENDS..
Brittany much like Wales with which it shares some pre historic connections is a motoring country. Quiberon is a popular spot for French visitors and at this time of the…
Jul 15, 2021
STRENGTH OF FRIENDSHIPS THAT IS IMPERVIOUS TO TIME AND DISTANCE
Today, two American Indian friends of mine, celebrating their wedding anniversary in Orlando, drove down to Miami, 200 miles each way. ABB and I worked together at the Umonhon Tribe…
Jul 15, 2021
HOW TO TRANSITION FROM ONE CULTURE TO THE NEXT: IN MY CASE AN ENJOYABLE SOLUTION OF FLYING EXPERIENCE
In today's discussion, the airline in question is SWISS airlines. I have flown them a few times before, once Montreal to Zurich to Singapore and back, eleven years ago almost…
Jul 15, 2021
IT IS OUR DUTY TO PROTECT FRENCH CITIZENS, ERUDITE DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT MACRON JULY 2021
Few days ago President Macron had a televised speech to the nation in which he touched on many aspects especially the control of Covid 19 and its restrictions and relaxations.…
Jul 15, 2021
FERNANDO PESSOA.. CAFE CUBANO CASAVANA. HERMAN HESSE. THE JOURNEY TO THE EAST. A TOUCH OF SAUDADE
There books that are found in the libraries of all well read people and they change from generation to generation but some are eternal Kahlil Gibran. The Prophet Herman Hesse…
Jul 15, 2021
MINSK. BYELORUSSIA. BELARUS. RUSSIA. PUTIN.LUKACHENKO THE LAST DICTATOR OF EUROPE . JOIN THE CLUB BOLSANARO, ERDOGAN.
If you were growing up in Melbourne, among friends whose parents or grandparents had emigrated to avoid persecution in face of Nazi tyranny, there are many countries, duchies, towns that…
Jul 15, 2021
VIVE LA FRANCE: MISSIONARY APPROACH RATHER THAN THE MERCENARY APPROACH WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH CARE: AN EXAMPLE
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…
Jun 15, 2021
ENDOCRINOLOGIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST: A MORNING IN THE OFFICE ..
I am not sure which one of my professors at the University of Melbourne teaching hospital told me: Choose a specialty that suits your personality. I had observed the various…
Jun 15, 2021
EACH ONE OF US HAVE OUR OWN ITHACA… MINE HAS BEEN BARACOA, CUBA BUT IT STARTED IN LEVUKA, FIJI
We are always grateful for friends from yore who introduced us to books or poems or countries or ways of thinking. We are the collective expressions of so many of…
Jun 15, 2021
WHY ARE WE SO SILENT ABOUT THE SUFFERING OF THE PEOPLE OF IRAN? LET EACH ONE OF US DO A LITTLE TO ALLEVIATE THEIR SUFFERING
I have been marooned in Miami, unable to travel since March 2020, except for a trip to Cuba. Certainly I have taken advantage of this imposed isolation and put my…
Jun 15, 2021
TO SOLVE THIS CLINICAL CASE, CALL IN DR JULIO FERREIRO
I had a chance to study at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami School of Medicine, twice during my professional formation as a Consultant Physician in Endocrinology. I was there…
May 15, 2021
WHAT IS THE INDIAN FOOD SERVED IN “INDIAN” RESTARAURANTS OUTSIDE INDIA
Landladies and Inn keepers may have offered "curried" dishes before then, but this was the first restaurant owned and operated by and an Indian, a Bengali Muslim Sake Dean Mohammed,…
May 15, 2021
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI … WHERE SHALL I GO ?
These are the countries which are close to my heart and in each one of them there are conflicts of one sort of another: all politicized, whether it is the…
May 15, 2021
BE PART OF THE WELLBEING OF OTHERS, GOOD KARMA
Why do people Migrate? is it for themselves or for the country that are migrating to ? Is it a fair question to ask a Syrian fleeing Alep, to go…
Apr 15, 2021
CUBAN SOLIDARITY, NORTH AMERICAN FRAGILITY AND JALALUDDIN RUMI ..
While at the beginning of the Pandemic in 2020 and the various types of isolation that were to follow, many people, including me, welcomed the isolation and lack of intrusion…
Apr 15, 2021
EXCESSIVE EXERCISE IN THE ABSENCE OF NUTRITION ( NOT PROCESSED FOOD LIKE SUBSTANCES) MAY ACTUALLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH
When asked to accompany an European-Australian to go for a run around a football field, an Australian aboriginal person accepted the invitation and ran with him around the ground. When…