Mar 15, 2020
WHERE DOES WORK END AND LIFE BEGIN ? REFLECTIONS ON UNCERTAIN TIMES
I was a young boy when I across this saying in one of the journals that arrived once a month: Life is a long holiday with Intervals of work. I…
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.
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…
Mar 15, 2020
IT IS ALL PROHIBITED… PERHAPS THE REASON FOR THE CORONA VIRUS
My love for Iran has morphed into a passion for the welfare of its people and also an admiration of those Iranians I have met during my travels. Today I…
Feb 15, 2020
LOVE OF THE LANGUAGE. ENGLISH! PLEASE NOTE IT IS SO EASY TO SPEAK IT BADLY
ENTOMOLOGY would have been one of the first words in my vocabulary that I could remember as a child. But what was the path to that knowledge? What language did…
Feb 15, 2020
HEALTH CARE USING CERTAIN BUDDHIST PRINCIPLES
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE HOW TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE IN THE USA USING BUDDHIST PRINCIPLES. A NOTE TO THE DOCTORS The Four Noble Truths Buddha was…
Feb 15, 2020
OH MIGHTY AMERICA .. YOUR BLOCKADE DOES NOT AFFECT THE MIGHTY, BUT AFFECT THE HUMBLE POOR MARGINALIZED MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR PEOPLE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I am writing this from my flat in Vedado, Havana, Cuba while listening to Iranian music. I have been thinking a lot…
Feb 15, 2020
CONTENT IN HAVANA . FIRST WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2020
I had a trip planned to South East Asia, and anyone who has read the News would admit that this is not the time for frivolous travel to the East.…
Dec 15, 2019
GRATEFUL FOR THE CHANCE TO HELP ANOTHER HUMAN BEING . A STORY FROM CUBA
I was born HOMELESS in that my parents were not in their countries of origin and like my brother Eliyahu ended up in countries that were not in our destiny,…
Dec 15, 2019
A SHORT STAY IN BANGKOK .. EXCELLENT FOOD
Had time only for One breakfast at Double Tree Sukhumvit One breakfast at Qatar Airways Lounge at Souvanabhumi one meal at NARA in Sukhumvit one meal at Tlaling Pling and…
Dec 15, 2019
THE FROZEN ROSE . A POIGNANT SHORT FILM FROM IRAN
How many countries I have fallen in LOVE in all these years of my travels? AUSTRALIA USA JAMAICA ENGLAND CUBA AND HAVE FELT STRONG EMOTIONS FOR MEXICO ARGENTINA FRANCE BELGIUM…
Dec 15, 2019
BIENVENIDOS DR DIAZ WELCOME DR DIAZ .
Welcome, Dr. Diaz A former director of the National Institute of Endocrinology and a well respected academic came to my little flat in La Habana for dinner and spend a…
Nov 15, 2019
SIX DAYS IN SIEM REAP . A COLLECTOR OF STORIES
SIX DAYS IN SIEM REAP The collector of Stories In our lives, fewer STORIES come to us than if we were traveling or going in search of them. In six…
Nov 15, 2019
JOYOUS RETURN TO LA HABANA…. SUCH A SMOOTH JOURNEY
I always reach the Airport a little earlier than normal, mainly to have a nice breakfast at the Flagship Lounge of the American Airlines. 730 am An Uber driver by…
Nov 15, 2019
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST WITHOUT BORDERS WHO MAKES HOUSE CALLS
I am trained as an Endocrinologist and I have never had an office. I make house-calls, but they are not in any particular town or country. Today I was assigned…
Nov 15, 2019
THANK YOU FOR NOT COMING… WISH YOU WERE NOT HERE
Currently there is a healthy trend in the minds of the potential visitors from Europe and other richer nations about TOURISM and the destinations. As you have seen, VENICE is…
Nov 15, 2019
A PHOTO JOURNEY OF A LONG JOURNEY FROM SIEM REAP TO MIAMI
It is close to Midnight on Saturday 9 November 2019. It would be Noon on Sunday 10 November 2019 in Siem Reap, Cambodia It was 6AM on 7th November 2019…
Oct 15, 2019
LONG BEFORE OCTOBER RETURNS… A POEM BY EMILY BRONTE
I have already quoted the poem in another blog.. but today is 29 October and tomorrow 30 October.. Both pleasant days of October Especially this October which has been more…
Oct 15, 2019
THE MAGIC OCTOBER CONTINUES
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE --> THE MAGIC OCTOBER CONTINUES Today is 26 th October 2019 On 26 th September I was in Lisbon, Portugal catching a…