Jun 15, 2016
OMAN: A COUNTRY THAT CAN HELP YOU DEFINE YOURSELF
I am a traveller and very seldom do I get very enthused about arriving in a country (home countries and cities are excepted, such as Cuba, Havana, Miami, Cochin, KL…
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.
May 15, 2016
BE AWARE OF LITTLE PLEASURES OF LIFE
All the Little Pleasures of Life ! I had not expected to receive such a warm welcome at the Executive Lounge at Double Tree Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The…
May 15, 2016
JE SUIS UMONHON: I am an Omaha. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ADOPTED INTO OMAHA TRIBE
I have had a long association with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. In fact when I go there on my monthly visits, I live in a house within the reservation.…
May 15, 2016
ETIHAD AIRWAYS NEW YORK JFK TO ABU DHABI 13 H 20 MIN; ABU DHABI TO COLOMBO 3 H 30 MIN. SERENDIVA LOUNGE COLOMBO AIRPORT
THE ETIHAD LOUNGE AT JFK, ONE OF THE BEST YOU WILL SEE IN THE USA BEING FAITHFUL TO MY GENES: TABBOULEH, BABA GANOUSH, CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA AND RICE ARABIC ICE…
May 15, 2016
ONE REFUGEE TO ANOTHER.. ON THIS HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF SYKES-PICOT MAP
ONE REFUGEE TO ANOTHER... AN EYE OPENER IN HISTORY OR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF SYKES-PICOT MAP I am a Jew, and firmly rooted in the Middle East, not only the history…
Apr 15, 2016
Ambiguity Sadhguru And My Travel Plans
AMBIGUITY, SADHGURU AND MY TRAVEL PLANS FOR THE NEXT 8 WEEKS When I woke up this morning, my good friend MC from KL had sent a discourse about Planning your…
Mar 15, 2016
A LONELY JEW IN LONDON
A LONELY JEW IN LONDON My first long term visit out of Australia, as a Jew and a teenager was to Sweden. Coming from a traditional Jewish community in Melbourne,…
Mar 15, 2016
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN MALACCA: LE YIN AND AMIN
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN MALACCA: LE YIN AND AMIN I have been a frequent visitor to Malacca, the historic town in the peninsular Malaysia which has a parallel history to Fort…
Mar 15, 2016
ALIYAH TO AMERICA.. thoughts after Brussels massacre
From a personal point of view, these past few days have not been the best of days. I had a most wonderful time in the past few weeks: American Indians,…
Feb 15, 2016
UNSUNG HEROES OF QATAR AIRWAYS DOHA BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE
UNSUNG HEROES OF QATAR AIRWAYS DOHA BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE When one talks about service aboard a flight on long haul journeys, one is not talking about USA based airlines or…
Feb 15, 2016
JOURNEY IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE DESTINATION
Lately, the emphasis has shifted from the journey to destination in the world of Travel. One of the frequently asked questioned in Travel Forums is: How can I get there…
Feb 15, 2016
PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND THE ARTIST: YOU MEET THOSE YOU NEED TO MEET
DOCTOR AND THE ARTIST YOU MEET THOSE YOU NEED TO MEET Stop looking for them! admonished my Meskwakia teacher, “dr” Brown. You don’t need to search, they will cross your…
Jan 15, 2016
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF 2016 WELCOME TO CUBA
Life is not about the regrets about the PAST nor about the anxieties of the FUTURE. As I sit here at the Admirals Club at Heathrow Airport in London, I…
Jan 15, 2016
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 FROM THE WILD COAST OF QUIBERON IN BRITTANY, FRANCE
Walking along the windswept coast of this village which has become a tourist destination for the French, I couldnt but think of the poems of Pablo Neruda who had described…
Sep 15, 2015
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO KIND TO ME? AN EREV YOM KIPPUR REFLECTION
Why are people so nice to me? I asked Alejandra, the lady in charge of the Amazonas BnB where I am staying in Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, just across from…
Sep 15, 2015
FRIENDSHIP OVER TIME AND DISTANCE
FRIENDSHIP OVER TIME AND DISTANCE While I was a post graduate student at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami, the southern cone of the Americas was always within…
Sep 15, 2015
HOW TO GET RID OF THE FEAR AND HATRED OF THE OTHER: HERE IS A CHANCE
Refugee Situation in Europe and the chance to cleanse our minds about FEAR of the OTHER Unprecedented numbers of people seeking refuge from war torn nations such as Syria, Iraq…
Sep 15, 2015
THERE ARE NO OTHER, THE OTHER IS ME. THE INDIAN WISDOM
THERE ARE NO OTHER, THE OTHER IS ME: INDIAN WISDOM A VERY SPECIAL SHABBAT SHALOM FROM SAO PAOLO IN BRASIL I had a wonderful day at USP- University of Sao…