Jan 15, 2022
FLIGHT TO NO DESTINATION, MOROCCO IS CLOSED SO I HAD TO CREATE AN ITINERARY
I had a ticket on British Airways to London and then on Iberia to Madrid and Marrakech. I was looking forward to returning to Riad 58 Blue and my new…
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.
Jan 15, 2022
EVOLVE CONSTANTLY TO FIND WHO YOU ARE. DEVOTION FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN TRANSIENT INFATUATION WE CALL LOVE. FROM UNTRUTH TO TRUTH
It is the Full Moon. My good friend, JK, took this in Imperial, Nebraska. 18 January 2022 First full moon of 2022. The above photo of Full moon over Miami…
Jan 15, 2022
ENDOCRINOLOGIST-ANTHROPOLOGIST TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, IN THIS CASE THE AMERICAN INDIANS. LOS INDIOS
I am happy to have come to the USA for my post graduate studies in Endocrinology (excellent clinical education at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami) but even…
Jan 15, 2022
SUCH A WONDERFUL TIME IN EUROPE WITH NEW LOVERS, AMAZED AT SR CARLOS AND FAMILY OF SR SEBASTIÃO
The Sun was setting in Miami. I had been back just over 24 hours ago. Yesterday I left that city of Light and Love. No city in North America comes…
Jan 15, 2022
ONE WEEK IN QUIBERON, BRITTANY, FRANCE GOOD FOR THE MIND AND THE BODY
Quiberon lies at the end of a peninsula bearing its name, connected by a thin strip of land to the mainland Brittany and France. The village of Quiberon has a…
Jan 15, 2022
24 HOURS IN NANTES, FRANCE.. UNEXPECTED PLEASURES GALORE.. A WONDERFUL WELCOME TO 2022
I was in Malaga in Andalucia and my destination was Quiberon, Bretagne. I always liked Nantes as a place to change from an intra European flight to the train that…
Jan 15, 2022
COMING BACK TO CÔTE SAUVAGE AND THE FANTASTIC SENSATION OF LIFE’S AFFECTION
This has been an unexpected trip and not well prepared trip at all. But every day, unexpected pleasures have come my way. On arriving at the Madrid Airport, after a…
Dec 15, 2021
ENJOYING YALDA THE LONGEST NIGHT IN IRAN WHILE SUN IS SHINING HERE IN MIAMI ..ISRAEL AND IRAN FRIENDSHIP
21 december 2021 Winter Solstice Yalda celebrated in Iran Iran is 8 1/2 hours time zones away from Miami. So i was able to enjoy the feasts and getting together…
Dec 15, 2021
COLD FULL MOON, THREE PLANET AND A COUPLE OF COMETS ORCHESTRA AND SHABBAT SHALOM AND DIA DE SAN LAZARO
San Lazaro is a Spirit from the pantheon of Cuban Syncretic Space, he is a Healer, a good Spirit to have on your side during these isolated days of suffering.…
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…
Dec 15, 2021
A GOOD DAY TO BE GRATEFUL, BE AWARE THAT YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING, DISTANCE FROM ATTACHMENT
I am at this large house by myself. Tranquil able to concentrate and to think. also realize who your friends are and who would be there for you Mr Carlos…
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
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
THE JEWISH CEMETERY OF MARRAKECH. SHABBAT SHALOM TO ALL MY RELATIVES REGARDLESS OF THEIR RELIGION
I have visited various Jewish cemeteries around the world where only memories linger on in the streets where Jewish people lived and died for hundreds of years. Penang, Malaysia Cochin,…
Nov 15, 2021
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO SMILE…. YOU WILL LOOK FOR ME AND I WILL BE GONE , I KNOW MY SOUL
Today has been a lovely day No one to disturb my peace, near and far A nice sensation when one is able to help, the philanthropy of time and knowledge…
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…