May 15, 2023
MY PASSION FOR CERTAIN COUNTRIES AND THEIR DISPASSIONATE FUTURE
A friend of mine jokingly once asked me: do you choose to fall in love with countries with peculiar problems or does it just happen? Myanmar, for instance. For a…
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.
Jul 15, 2022
SHABBAT SHALOM WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO OTHER PEOPLE ?
After writing the title, I realized that I had used the word OTHER to describe the 99.8% of the world's population who are not JEWISH. Usually we are the perpetual…
Jun 15, 2022
EUPHORIA WHAT IS THE SOURCE
A euphoric mood is characterized by feelings of strong happiness, excitement, and well-being. It is an amplified sense of pleasure that can have a number of different causes. (from American…
May 15, 2022
IT IS THAT LOVELY TIME OF THE DAY .. SUNSET. PÔR DE SOL PUESTA DE SOL LE COUCHER DE SOLEIL LOVE TO MY FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD
In the last one month, I have been in France (Nantes, Quiberon) and in Madrid and then in Cochin and took the longest flight, Singapore to New York (18 hours…
Feb 15, 2022
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST AT WORK: NATIONAL PARK
If you wish to lead an unconventional life, you have to plan to undertake unconventional path to your life including your family life, your career and your places of residence,…
Jan 15, 2022
HOW TO MAKE CHAI FROM AN AMERICAN FRIEND OF MINE … DRINK OF PARADISE INDEED
I have a close friend I met through our work with Native Indians of the USA. She worked as a Director of Nursing at one of the larger reservations in…
Nov 15, 2021
WHEN AND HOW VIPASSANA MEDITATION COME TO BE INTRODUCED TO MY WORLD VIEW? A PERSONAL HISTORY
Who has not heard of Easter Island and the legendary Moai there? Because of the extreme isolation of the island, travel there is not easy. I have been lucky enough…
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…
Sep 15, 2021
MITAKUYE OYASIN. WE ARE ALL RELATED. AN EVENING OF CONNECTIONS WITH CUBA, BRASIL, MIAMI, ISRAEL
LAN is a pan Asian fusion restaurant here in Miami. It is owned by a Filipino Chinese chef who has built a reputation for tasty, healthy food based on recipes…
Sep 15, 2021
REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11TH.. THE STAB THAT BEGAN AS A TRICKLE NOW FLOODS THE RIVERS OF HATRED IN THIS WORLD
Saturday, September 11, 2021 Miami Remembering the Terrorist Event 20 years ago in which we all lost so much: mainly an innocence. It was a pivotal moment for those with…
Jun 15, 2021
WHY ARE WE SO SILENT ABOUT THE SUFFERING OF THE PEOPLE OF IRAN? LET EACH ONE OF US DO A LITTLE TO ALLEVIATE THEIR SUFFERING
I have been marooned in Miami, unable to travel since March 2020, except for a trip to Cuba. Certainly I have taken advantage of this imposed isolation and put my…
May 15, 2021
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI … WHERE SHALL I GO ?
These are the countries which are close to my heart and in each one of them there are conflicts of one sort of another: all politicized, whether it is the…
May 15, 2021
BE PART OF THE WELLBEING OF OTHERS, GOOD KARMA
Why do people Migrate? is it for themselves or for the country that are migrating to ? Is it a fair question to ask a Syrian fleeing Alep, to go…
Mar 15, 2021
LACK OF FREEDOM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A REFUGEE ?
The Nation of USA, has become much gentler under their new President, Mr Joe Biden. He has welcomed the children arriving at the border by themselves rather than throwing them…
Mar 15, 2021
CELEBRATION OF PESACH DURING COVID
We are a people of very long memory. We were slaves in Egypt in the 13th Century BCE. 3300 years ago. Jews/Israelites as slaves to the Pharoah of Egypt. Painting…
Mar 15, 2021
WE TAKE PRIDE IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE BUT IS IT BECOMING LESS FREE ?
Regardless of which part of the world you live in, there is a slow slipping towards the right in body politics. Of course we will not talk about countries where…
Aug 15, 2020
WILL PROTECTORATES BE BACK ?
WILL PROTECTORATES BE BACK When the Lebanese population were clamouring for the ageing political elites to step down and President Macron of France was visiting, one of the requests was…