Aug 15, 2009
Alain de Boton A philosopher of Everyday Life
Philosopher of Everyday Life Alain de Boton is being paid 30 000 pounds to stay at the London Healthrow terminal 5 to observe and write about the life among 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.
Aug 15, 2009
Dr SYKS and Alain de Boton on Work and Happiness
I was extraordinarily lucky to have had my medical education divided between three countries: London in England, a medical model still paying attention to the great masters of the past…
Aug 15, 2009
An afternoon in Paris
Musee de la Vie Romantique The city of Paris maintains a slew of museums, which are free for visitors, a fact that I learned only this afternoon when I went…
Aug 15, 2009
A dinner in America 4th August 2009
Dinner on the night of 4th August 2009 First Course Moroccan Crab Salad Cream of Asparagus Soup Greek Salad Santa ana Reserve Torrontes, Argentina 2007 Main Course Three Cheese Vegetarian…
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…
Jul 15, 2009
Happy Birthday America and Shabbat Shalom
I have made so many good friends who now live or have lived in the United States of America..some are forgotten and others remain close to my heart as the…
Jun 15, 2009
Unexpecteed Pleasures…
Unexpected Pleasures La Habana, 27 th June 2009 Two important conversations, both related to my work in Anthropology and also the future of my work here in La Habana. One…
Jun 15, 2009
Shabbat Shalom and Kaddish for Cecil Helman
Shabbat Shalom from San Cristobal de la Habana 26 th June 2009 I have missed lighting the shabbat candles, this past Friday I was at a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska;…
Jun 15, 2009
Nothing is predictable in La Habana
The last day in Havana. 26 th June 2009 Where was I on 26 th May? Where would I be on 26 th July? When you are in Havana, you…
Jun 15, 2009
Por que yo soy revolucionario/a?
Day 3 La Habana Diaries 23 June 2009 I will tell you why I am a revolutionary I was sitting in a verandah of a colonial house lined with plants,…
Jun 15, 2009
About the Five Good Friends I had come to see
Day 3 in Havana. Early Morning. As usual, another night of deep sleep. During the week with the Indians, the sleep was so disturbed, waking up at 2 am and…
Jun 15, 2009
Cuba Cleans your heart..provides fire for my love for Paris
To Understand the Love for France … while in Cuba One of the things I would like to do on this trip is to find out the relationship, inversely or…
Jun 15, 2009
What would Life be like in the Moveable Feast which was mine for Years
I am sitting at the Lounge at the Houston Airport. I am on my way to Miami and then on to La Habana. I am looking forward to being back…
Jun 15, 2009
An Eclectic Day in Paris.. in June
An Eclectic Day in Paris It is not that often that in a short span of a few hours, you have such a variety of experiences as I had today…
May 15, 2009
MAY 2009 A WONDERFUL MONTH OF TRAVELS
It began with the Continental Airlines upgrading me to B/F on their flight from Houston to Paris, as I had missed their connection to New York. I didn’t mind staying…
May 15, 2009
Life is a long vacation with intervals of work
The Pleasant Long Commute to work among the Los Indios.. How often do you begin your journey to work with a glass of French Champagne? I was inside the Air…
May 15, 2009
A Mi Tierra Natal: Dia 1 Malasia.
Day 1 of a trip to Asia In fact it was more than 24 hours, on this first day of the trip, to get to KL from Paris. I left…
Apr 15, 2009
April in Paris
Paris, France 1st April 2009 Dear Friends The sun is shining brightly outside. It is 5 pm and the temperature is 16 C. (60 F) I see people walking around…