Sep 15, 2020
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT IN MIAMI
It was love at first sight. I remember arriving in Miami and seeing the city and the water. I have always loved Miami, having spent years at the University of…
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.
Sep 15, 2020
BUDDHA SAID. WHEN I AM EATING I KNOW I AM EATING…
In memory of October 5th 2019 when a Tibetan monk walked into the area where I was having breakfast, Bristows Lighthouse Bungalow in Fort Cochin in Kerala. We talked and…
Sep 15, 2020
MAY THE COMING YEAR 5781 BE ESPECIAL FOR ALL OF US : ISRAEL ARAB COUNTRIES IRAN . INDIA AND CHINA AND ESPECIALLY THE USA AND BRASIL . as always mi ISLA RICA. CUBA
In just a few hours, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins. I have been feeling good thinking about my mischpochah: family scattered around the world, including USA Israel…
Sep 15, 2020
DEMAGOGUES DICTATORS AND DEMOCRACY. CULTURE IN THE TIME OF COVID 19
Demagogues and Dictators Culture in the time of Covid 19 Currently in the race of Covid 19 prevalence, USA BRASIL INDIA take the top spots. The best controlled seem to…
Aug 15, 2020
I WILL NOT MISS YOU WHEN YOU LEAVE, SAID LA PETITE POETE DE COTE SAUVAGE
The book was given as a gift. I was about to go to Malaysia for a visit. I was a freshly minted graduate doctor in the halls of a hospital…
Aug 15, 2020
Nunca vou esquecer, apesar de que nunca fui lá ..Je n’oublierai pas pourtant je n’y suis jamais allé
The Journey, I said Good Bye and You never arrived . Tenho saudade de tudo “All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For…
Aug 15, 2020
KADDISH FOR RABBI ADIN STEINSALTZ
If you are a Jewish traveller, in the mode of Benjamin of Tudela of blessed memory, you would make note of the particularities of the observances of different jewish communities…
Aug 15, 2020
EVERY LITTLE TREE GIVES ITS LITTLE BIT OF SHADE ANCIENT WISDOM OF FULAE, THIS TIME FROM SENEGAL
Al Jazeera, the news channel based in Doha is unique among the news channels in the world( with the exception of the venerable BBC, that many of us grew up…
Jul 15, 2020
Good bye Queen of the skies. She still calls Australia home
Even though I have not returned to Australia after my two trips in 2008, I keep abreast of what is happening in Australia. I am grateful for the enormous influence…
Jul 15, 2020
IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY, YOU WILL SEE SOMETHING HIDDEN INSIDE THEM
I have a friend in Dali City, Yunnan. The scenery is nothing like what we associate with China with its industries, crowded cities and glittering lights. Tranquil mountains, streams and…
Jul 15, 2020
LHASA DE SELA. ANYWHERE ON THE ROAD. A LOVELY SONG OF NOSTALGIA
One thing I have learned through this self isolation of Covid 19 is that there are an awful lot of unhappy people in this world and most of them do…
Jul 15, 2020
KNOW YOUR GENES, KNOW YOUR CULTURE AND THAT IS YOUR NUTRITION .. NO ONE SINGLE NUTRITIONAL ADVICE FITS EVERY ONE
When I finished my training as an Endocrinologist, my knowledge about Nutrition was biblically minute, it could have been written down on a grain of rice! Very little training about…
Jun 15, 2020
VISIT TO A GHOST TOWN. MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
I know this airport so well.. and i could not believe what I saw today. all concourses were empty, no agents nor any identification of any airlines, hardly any human…
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…
Jun 15, 2020
RACISM WITHIN RACISM.. ALL OF US WHO ARE NOT BLACK AND ARE PRIVILEGED MUST DENOUNCE RACISM
The above video uploaded and already has garnered millions of views. It touches on a subject that we might pretend that does not exist , he is a second generation…
Jun 15, 2020
AFTER TEN WEEKS OF HOME ISOLATION, THE FIRST BREATH OF NATURE MIAMI
THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF DR. FAIRCHILD I had read two about and by him and had visited many of the places he had been and thought of the time he…
Jun 15, 2020
MIGRATION AND LIFE NEW OUTLOOK AT THE POST CORONA TIMES
MIGRATION THROUGH LIFE A threat to the Planet as well as at an individual level is/has been present over the past three months. We have become open to the sufferings…
May 15, 2020
IMMIGRATION, POVERTY AND DEATH … DISAPARITY OF GLOBALIZATION PREDICTED BY FIDEL
There has been a disproportionate number of deaths from this virus, Covid-19, in France in 2020. If you look at the map, you would see a disproportionate number of infections…