Oct 15, 2011
Quiberon, almost as if I am back in OZ
Many years later while walking in solitude along the streets of Palermo in BA, I used to think of the innocent days in Melbourne,where I thought the flowers had the…
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, 2011
Food and Beauty in the New Year 1.1.11 Quiberon
Instead of telling you about the revelries of 31 dec, I shall describe the first day of the New Year 2011 which has begun very well. The morning though cold…
Dec 15, 2010
QUIBERON QUIET QUAINT RELAXING AND NO SNOW
while the rest of Europe is shivering with cold and covered with snow, Quiberon, un presquile, is a relatively warm place 10 C for this time of the year, no…
Dec 15, 2010
Pablo Neruda, Hafez and an Excellent Crepe Ble Noir in Quiberon
I was quite satisfied with the excellent Ble Noir Bretagne crepe I had for dinner and then followed by thoughts on the outlying regions of my heart, I sat down…
Nov 15, 2010
Where is Quiberon? Kiberen?
Yet another Journey is about to begin: this one a very pleasant one to look forward to, to two places that I love, one day in Miami which would include…
Jul 15, 2009
Thalasso in Quiberon
In Brittany with its wild coast and a lifestyle tied to the sea, for a couple of hundred of years, they had discovered the medicinal properties of sea water and…
Mar 15, 2026
Goodbye, Ricky Café
A farewell to a Miami café that held fragments of friendship, memory, and ordinary ritual.
Jan 15, 2026
When Empathy Erodes: An Anthropological Warning
An anthropological warning about the quiet social decline that begins when empathy weakens.
Feb 15, 2024
ONE LIFE STARRING SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS ABOUT SIR NICHOLAS WINTON WHO ORGANIZED BRINGING OF 669 JEWISH CHILDREN OF PRAGUE , EVADING THEIR DEATH IN THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS
ONE LIFE , MOVIE ABOUT SIR NICHOLAS WINTON (WERTHEIM) MOVIE STARRING ANTHONY HOPKINS, LENA OLIN, HELENA BONHAM-CARTER Eventhough he was born a Jew, he never practiced, disillusioned by prayers of…
Dec 15, 2023
31 DECEMBER THE MOST LIMINAL OF THE DAYS OF 2023. WELCOME 2024
I have never been too fond of the transition from 31 December to 1 January. It is not looked forward to, nor have I any great memories of those days…
May 15, 2023
IF YOU WISH TO DIE EARLIER, MIGRATE TO THE USA, I TOLD A GROUP OF FOREIGN ENDOCRINOLOGISTS AT A MEETING
I am fortunate to visit USA to be with the indigenous people of that country and on arrival at JFK or Miami, the first thing that hits you, is the…
Apr 15, 2023
THE CITY OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS COCHIN IN KERALA
The Anthropologists of Cochin when was the last time you visited a town and ran ino a gaggle of anthropologists?? i am talking about the educated class of Cochin in…
Jan 15, 2023
CAFE CORSE ON LENIN STREET IN THE CENTRE OF TUNIS NOT FAR FROM AVE HABIB BOURGUIBA
As soon as I was ready to leave the hotel, my first destinatinm in Tunis was Cafe Corse on rue Lénine... Each time I am in Tunis, I make a…
Dec 15, 2022
YALDA THE LONGEST NIGHT . LET LIGHT TRIUMPH OVER DARKNESS, IN IRAN AND IN AFGHANISTAN ..INDONESIA ..THE LIST IS LONG
Tonight is 21 december .. it is the night of Yalda .. It is the longest night, full of darkness and this morning when young women went to their universities…
Dec 15, 2022
LIVING THE FRENCH PARADOX, AN EXPLANATION
In 1991, Serge Renaud, a scientist from the University of Bordeaux, coined the term the FRENCH PARADOX, after noting the relatively lower rate of cardiovascular diseases among the French compared…
Dec 15, 2022
WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE A PROJECT IN LIFE, YOU AGE PREMATURELY AND DIE. .. VOCE E LINDA CAETANO VELOSO
I have always been fond of reading, the habit of looking through second hand bookstores and bouquinistes have followed me in my travels ..Powell's of Portland.. River Seine.. Tokyo.. Carlton…
Aug 15, 2022
EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE RAPID CHANGES OCCURRING IN THE PLANET SOCIETY
The temperature outside is a pleasant 20 C, much cooler than the 34 C, in this presqu'île de Quiberon, Brittany. A very good article arrived from The New York Times,…
Aug 15, 2022
FROM CARHAIX TO CUBA : CASUALIDAD NO SON TAN CASUAL
Many years ago I remember seeing an CD with a lovely name : and enjoyed the music, Cubans and African musicians singing classic Cuban songs.. Today walking along the side…