Dec 15, 2021
A NICE DAY OF FRIENDSHIP. SOUTH FLORIDA IN USA
My closest friends in South Florida live 120 km north from where I stay in Miami. The Highway takes you there in less than an hour and half, allowing me…
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, 2021
A LOVELY DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ANTHROPOLOGIST, SO MUCH PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION OF INDIGENOUS AND NON INDIGENOUS LIFE
What all happens in the course of a day? asked the poet. Each day is an unexpected gift, you may meet someone new, taught my erudite jewish teacher in Melbourne,…
Nov 15, 2021
WHO IS JALALUDIN RUMI, MAULANA RUMI? YOU ARE RUMI, SO AM I .
Not Christian, nor Jew nor Muslim, not Hindu/ Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion/ or cultural system. I am not from the East/ or the West, not out of…
Nov 15, 2021
GIVE THANKS TO ALL THINGS USA HAS GIVEN TO YOU, WROTE MY FRIEND DR MARCOS MORDECHAI ON THIS DAY
Even though I have a very long association with USA and especially Miami, I have never considered living here nor was I forced to live here. That is, until Covid…
Nov 15, 2021
STRANGE TO BE DREAMING OF TRAVEL AND NOT BEING ABLE TO BOOK ANYTHING HA.. 2019 WAS SUCH A GOOD YEAR FOR TRAVEL PRE COVID
I felt that the year 2019 was an extraordinarily good year for travel . COUNTRIES VISITED IN 2019 MANY TIMES USA CUBA FRANCE MEXICO COLOMBIA BRASIL ARGENTINA URUGUAY CHILE EASTER…
Nov 15, 2021
WHEN EVERYTHING LOOKS GLOOMY SOMETHING UNEXPECTED COMES OUT OF THE HORIZON
It is incredible when things look gloomy something comes out of nowhere to offer you consolation. I rather be in Cuba but I am in Miami. fortunately I work with…
Nov 15, 2021
I DONT SPEAK PERSIAN BUT SOME PERSIAN SONGS DANCE AROUND MY HEART. THIS ONE BY SIAVASH GHOMAYSHI
I had driven north from Miami to be with my dear friends M & G. A very long conversation, broken only for a nouvelle americain cuisine dinner, followed, blessed by…
Nov 15, 2021
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO CUBA? HOW CAN I GO HOME?
Today is November 15, 2021 and flights to Cuba will commence after a very long shut down. But checking at the airfares to Havana from Miami, you would notice that…
Nov 15, 2021
MY MOROCCAN JEWISH CONNECTION: NOW WE ARE ALL JEWS
When I arrived in MIami to do postgraduate work in Endocrinology, one of my colleagues at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital was a Panamanian Jew by the name of…
Oct 15, 2021
CASUALIDAD NO ES TAN CASUAL.. AS INDIANS SAY, THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON, MAY BE YOU ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND
Things have a reason for happening. A colleague who seldom talks about travel, sent me this I am on my way to Israel. It is fully vaccinated, as close to…
Oct 15, 2021
A VERY SPECIAL FULL MOON 20 OCTOBER 2021
It has been raining with accompanying thunder in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The State of Kerala in India is inundated floods. SriRacha, Chon Buri in Thailand has gusty winds and cloudy…
Oct 15, 2021
LANGUOROUS TROPICAL AFTERNOON.. AND A NICE PERUVIAN LUNCH..
Not too far from the city of Miami, lies the erstwhile agricultural district of Redlands. It is such a change in scenery, physical and emotional leaving the cuban-heavy Miami ambiance…
Oct 15, 2021
THINKING OF ERWIN FRENKEL , WHAT ALL WILL HAPPEN IN THE COURSE OF A DAY
While growing up, one of the more interesting person, a truly erudite person, that I met was Erwin F. I do not remember meeting him more than two or three…
Oct 15, 2021
SURVIVAL DURING THE PASSAGE OF TIME THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS
Survival during the passage of time I look forward to the monthly FULL moon Satsang with Sadhguru the mystic from South India. Tonight was the full moon 20 September 2021…
Oct 15, 2021
WHAT IS INTELLECTUAL STRESS? AND HOW DO YOU TAKE CARE OF IT ? SYMBOLIC HEALING.
Intellectual stress It is very seldom written about. Stress is usually associated with emotional stress , even though the word stress was used to denote physical or structural stress in…
Sep 15, 2021
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD …EACH GENERATION CREATING THEIR OWN IDENTITIES
I am not a fan of watching sports on TV but I like to be abreast of what is happening, especially from an anthropological point of view. When we were…
Sep 15, 2021
A LOVELY DAY VISITING THE FLORIDA KEYS… TO RECOVER A FORGOTTEN FLORIDA SLOWLY DISAPPEARING
From The National Geographic: Florida Keys A key is a small, low-lying coral island. The Florida Keys are probably the most famous keys in the world. A 205 kilometer (127…
Sep 15, 2021
EAT YOUR FRUIT AND NOT DRINK THEM .. THE NEW TECHNOLOGY HELPS US INDIVIDUALIZE PATIENT CARE..
A patient of mine, after he had finished his brunch decided to have a cup of orange juice. He had his lunch which was not a large lunch at 12…