Jan 15, 2012
A Friday Dinner with friends in Paris
It was billed as an ordinary dinner, after I had lit shabbat candles and thought of the appropriate people. Just six of us.. what you can call a Dinner Party.…
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.
Dec 15, 2011
Gauguin Pont Avon Breton Biscuits and Chocolates
GAUGUIN AMBIENTE GALETAS Y PINTURAS PONT AVON In the 19 th century, American artists not having a school of paintings to belong to flocked to France. They found Pont Avon,…
Dec 15, 2011
ENDANGERED SPECIES this time LANGUAGES
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ENDANGERED SPECIES THIS TIME LANGUAGES When we think of Endangered Languages, we usually think of isolated tribes in inaccessible regions of the…
Dec 15, 2011
The Modern Myth of Cholesterol..Do we need Sherlock Holmes?
THE STORY OF CHOLESTEROL, WE DO NEED A SHERLOCK HOLMES HERE… While writing this, I was reminded so much of one of my good teachers in Endocrinology, Dr Eric Reiss,…
Nov 15, 2011
Experimental Philosophy of Everyday Life
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Experimental Philosophy of Everyday Life Following closely the real life adventures in Thought Experiments of my dear friend MC-a mixture of self-realization,…
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…
Oct 15, 2011
STEVE JOBS IN TEHERAN
Steve Jobs in Teheran This morning I received an email from Teheran, Iran: Steve Jobs has died. The news made every one sad, even here in Iran, where few people…
Oct 15, 2011
VISIT THE FRIENDLY SKIES OF USA..outsiders made welcome here
Despite my repeated visits to this sprawling country and the remoteness of some of my destinations, Eagle Pass, Texas Walthill, Nebraska Eagle Butte, South Dakota; I am amazed at the…
Sep 15, 2011
Harvest Festival of the HoCank and the Jewish New Year
I stepped out of the gymnasium into the pleasantly chilled air of this waning days of the Northern Summer; I could still hear the drums and jingle of the dresses.…
Sep 15, 2011
NAURU AND DIABETES WISH YOU WERE NOT HERE
WISH THEY WERE NOT HERE.. At the recent meeting of the European Association of the Study of Diabetes (September 12-16, 2011) at Lisboa, Portugal, alarm was sounded by the troubadours…
Sep 15, 2011
GIFTS FROM OKLAHOMA
GIFTS FROM OKLAHOMA Oklahoma is a Choctaw word for Okla Red Humma Earth. Oklahoma City feels so neat, organized with a mixture of odl and new architecture, a sense of…
Jul 15, 2011
How Does One Become an Avid Reader
How does one become an avid reader? When does it start? For most of us, it starts early in life, when you see your parents or grandparents reading or even…
Jul 15, 2011
The Destruction of Languages and Cultures.. our role in it
My friend MunChing who looks through The Brunei Times daily and selects articles for me (and other friends of hers) and emails them. I truly appreciate this effort of hers.…
Jul 15, 2011
DALAI LAMA ON COOKING AND STRUCTURAL DEFECT OF THE MIND: JUDGEMENT AND AVERSION
DALAI LAMA ON COOKING and THE KLEISHA [STRUCTURAL DEFECT OF THE MIND] OF AVERSION There are many intimidating judges that one may face on a cooking show (the fiery Gordon…
Jul 15, 2011
FREQUENT FLIERS, OBESITY AND HEART DISEASE
Frequent Fliers, Obesity and Heart Disease Gone are the days when flying around the world was a glamorous affair, when flying to distant locale itself had an exciting connotation. Nowadays…
Jul 15, 2011
MALAYSIA FRIENDS FOOD AND CLASSICAL YOGA
MALAYSIA TO MALAYSIA MY LIFE IN BETWEEN VISITS TO MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. Singapore to Tokyo. Tokyo to London. London to Paris. Paris to Miami. Miami to The Indians,…
Jun 15, 2011
WHO DECIDES ON THE CORRECT TREATMENT FOR DIABETES
You can read this post in conjunction with the previous post: America by the numbers. You can substitute: Australia, UK, India... in every country, they predict that Diabetes would double…
Jun 15, 2011
POSSIBILITY OF REVERSAL OF HEART DISEASE AMONG NATIVE AMERICANS
I have worked with Native American Indians for awhile and have been educated in their ways of thinking and their philosophy of life. So when a graduate from the oldest…