Nov 15, 2019
A PHOTO JOURNEY OF A LONG JOURNEY FROM SIEM REAP TO MIAMI
It is close to Midnight on Saturday 9 November 2019. It would be Noon on Sunday 10 November 2019 in Siem Reap, Cambodia It was 6AM on 7th November 2019…
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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.
Nov 15, 2019
THANK YOU FOR NOT COMING… WISH YOU WERE NOT HERE
Currently there is a healthy trend in the minds of the potential visitors from Europe and other richer nations about TOURISM and the destinations. As you have seen, VENICE is…
Nov 15, 2019
HAPPY 500th ANNIVERSARY SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA . TE AMO CUBA
Some of the following photographs may be copyrighted so I beg forgiveness of the photographers but they were available in the Net.. Many people in Miami are very surprised how…
Nov 15, 2019
TENDER IS MY HEART FOR IRAN THIS MORNING
Lately, since October 5, 2019, I have been having wonderful conversations with my friends in Iran, thanks to Internet. We never discuss politics, much like we don't discuss politics in…
Nov 15, 2019
WE LOVE YOU, LA HABANA, THE CITY OF DREAMS AND MEMORIES
and I am ready for you La Habana
Nov 15, 2019
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST WITHOUT BORDERS WHO MAKES HOUSE CALLS
I am trained as an Endocrinologist and I have never had an office. I make house-calls, but they are not in any particular town or country. Today I was assigned…
Nov 15, 2019
IRAN AND ISRAEL, IN MY OPINION THE BEST TWO PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Israel and Iran are the two most educated people in the Middle East The two countries with millennial history. I look forward to the time when the people of Israel…
Nov 15, 2019
IRANIAN MUSIC IN THAT CITY OF MOVEABLE FEASTS… LA HABANA, CUBA
Faramaz Aslani and Babak Amini made this video YAR in La Habana. It is nice to see the melodies and rhythms of Iran and Cuba mix..
Nov 15, 2019
JOYOUS RETURN TO LA HABANA…. SUCH A SMOOTH JOURNEY
I always reach the Airport a little earlier than normal, mainly to have a nice breakfast at the Flagship Lounge of the American Airlines. 730 am An Uber driver by…
Nov 15, 2019
I AM A PROUD . M.O.T . MEMBER OF THE TRIBE A JEW
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I AM A PROUD M.O.T. MEMBER OF THE TRIBE The first time I heard the expression MOT, was from a doctor teacher,…
Oct 15, 2019
MAGICAL REALISM IN FORT COCHIN
In India there has been a proliferation of book publishing and new and newer authors are constantly being discovered. Also the prices of books are very reasonable and who could…
Oct 15, 2019
ARAB OR ARABESQUE FOOD IN COCHIN KERALA
ARABIC STYLE FOOD IN COCHIN, KERALA The name of the restaurant was attractive enough, ZATAAR, the herb mentioned in the Jewish scriptures, which in Israel one uses in abundance. Mr…
Oct 15, 2019
QR QATAR AIRWAYS NEVER DISAPPOINTS
Am I off key to anticipate my flights on QR Qatar Airways? I look forward to my QR flights and on this morning, Madrid to Doha and then on to…
Oct 15, 2019
CASUALIDAD NO ES TAN CASUAL . COINCIDENCES DO NOT EXIST A STORY FROM FORT COCHIN KERALA
I am not sure when I first heard the phrase, Coincidences do not exist but much sonorous in Spanish, Casualidad no es tan Casual..but one thing for sure. It was…
Oct 15, 2019
LONGINGS ANORANSA SAUDADE FOR IRAN
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE SAUDADE FOR IRAN Saudade is my favourite Portuguese word, which has been translated into many forms of nostalgia, anoransa en Spanish, longings…
Oct 15, 2019
HUMAN BEINGS OF THIS PLANET MY FRIEND TONY
We had become friends when we were still medical students. and shared the same hospital when we were training to become specialist physicians. It was not Medicine that brought us…
Oct 15, 2019
LEAVING BRISTOW’S LIGHTHOUSE BUNGALOW IN FORT COCHIN, KERALA, INDIA
I had a delightful 10 day stay at the only hotel facing the Arabian Sea at the historic town of Fort Cochin, near the Indian city of Ernakulum in Kerala,…
Oct 15, 2019
CUBA EN MI CORAZON . LIKE THEY SAY APPLE OF MY EYE
I received this photograph from the Middle East. I was overjoyed to see a geographical impression of our America imposed upon the open eyes.. and behold CUBA is right there…