Mar 15, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA KENNEDY IN MELBOURNE
It is one of Life’s greatest pleasures, indeed, when out of the mist of time, where memories hide, one small glimmer of a light comes out, bringing with it fragrances…
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, 2008
The Bald Men of Sind… I have Sind
Historical Past and Modern Endocrinology General Napier of the British Army in the employ of the East India Trading Company, with a meagre resource of 500 european and 4500 “native”…
Mar 15, 2008
CAMBODIA BECOMING CLOSER TO THE HEART
My name is Sudha, Su in Pali, I am told, signifies that which is good, and in many languages, this name is associated with Food, for which I am very…
Feb 15, 2008
Cultural Identity: Tale of a Traveller
Who are you, anyway? IDENTITY AND SEARCH FOR A COMMUNITY A TALE OF A TRAVELLER In the New World, especially the Anglo-Saxon, English speaking conglomeration of USA/CANADA/AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND, the superficial…
Jan 15, 2008
A day of Healing at a Native American Indian Clinic
A Day of Healing at a Clinic for Native Americans Barely thirty, JWE, now sits in front of you, a wasted life, his limbs a metaphor for that waste. Bites…
Jan 15, 2008
Centuries Covered in One Day
ONE DAY, FOUR COUNTRIES From VijayaVarman II to Annadurai, Comrade Anna of Dravida Muneta Kadakam, the pan Dravidian movement based in Madras, India. It is IX Century, an Immigrant South…
Nov 15, 2007
Globalization Will Not Eradicate
Globalization will not eradicate Prejudices Competence, Efficiency and Education will! Or Why we need Israel to train security agents worldwide. Rainy end of October day. 0730 AM. Steady drizzle. Not…
Nov 15, 2007
It Is 2 35 Am In Paris 8 35 Pm In Miami
It is 2 35 am in Paris, 8 35 pm in Miami, 7 35 pm in Winnebago and 5 35 pm in Yakima. The night of 21st/22nd October 2007. I…
Sep 15, 2007
Meals to Miami
I have been fortunate enough to travel a little bit, more by design than by choice and over the years, one picks up certain whims and fancies. Travelling by Business…
Jun 15, 2007
A Dream Dreaming of Itself..Musings from Paris
Friday, 1 June 2007 A young Arab French girl with a visible bulging belly and her hair dyed blonde serves me a glass of house wine. As happens in the…