Jul 15, 2024
ARDALAN SARAFAZ THE SONG SOUVENIR SOGHATI HAYEDE SHAKILA YASMIN LEVY
On a recent Moment Story, I misattributed a quote to Molana. When you are coming, the sound of your footsteps comes from all roads It is not like it's coming…
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.
Apr 15, 2024
FLOWERS IN BLOOM AT THE FAIRCHILD TROPICAL GARDENS IN MIAMI FLORIDA IN MARCH APRIL 2024
Some flowers in bloom now at the Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami, Florida Poinsettia is a commercially important flowering plant (euphorbia) indigenous to Mexico and Central America Brazil Raintree, native…
Mar 15, 2024
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE 300 MILLION CELEBRATING IT TODAY
HAPPY NOWRUZ DEAR FRIENDS OLD AND NEW, CLOSE TO MY HEART IN EVERY WAY OR FAR AWAY IN DISTANCE AND OBLIVION In a few minutes, the vernal equinox would appear…
Mar 15, 2024
THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE. THIS TIME IN MARRAKECH MOROCCO
Some books and certain authors enter your life at transforming moments and remain there, even as fashions change and seasons shift from torrid summers to autumnal tranquility. I first encountered…
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…
Feb 15, 2024
OH POBRE AMERICANOS, COME TO MEXICO. THE FOOD IS BETTER SO IS THE SPECIALIST MEDICAL CARE . MORE COMPASSIONATE
Oh, unlucky American patients-so close to good personal medical attention in Mexico and yet so far from a holistic approach. Just about a month ago, I returned to the Ticuna…
Feb 15, 2024
BEST CITIES TO LIVE
I have been fortunate to travel a bit in my life, I have always wanted to travel ever since I was a boy! Which country is your favourite, people ask?…
Jan 15, 2024
WELCOME TO MIAMI
WELCOME TO MIAMI When I am in the USA, I usually stay in Miami. I have always liked Miami, one of the main reasons being it is a Spanish speaking…
Dec 15, 2023
SAY GOOD BYE TO YOUR FAMILY DOCTOR IN THE USA
In most civilised countries in this planet, when it comes to health care, the gate keeper is the trusted Family Doctor or GPs as they are called in English speaking…
Jun 15, 2023
COINCIDENCES ARE NOT COINCIDENCES .. WE ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THEM
A voyage of too many coincidences Coincidences do not exist, it shows our inability to understand it A short visit to Buenos Aires Miami to Panama to Montevideo, the awful…
May 15, 2023
LAMENTO HABANERO. THE LAMENT FOR MY LITTLE ISLAND IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH
LAMENTO POR MI ISLA RICA, MI CUBA A lo largo de los años de visita a Baracoa, la primera ciudad de Cuba, fundada en 1511, tuve la fortuna de conocer…
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…
Apr 15, 2023
MERIDA MEXICO IS A DREAM I FELT SO ALIVE THERE .. AND THANKFUL FOR FRIENDS ON THIS JOURNEY
Many years ago, during a Psychiatry rotation (the only specialty where the Nurses Assistant knows as much as the Doctor, was my conclusion, even though I would have made a…
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…
Feb 15, 2023
A MOST PLEASANT 14 FEBRUARY. DIA DE LA AMISTAD AS WE SAY IN CUBA. A DAY OF FRIENDSHIP
Today has turned out to be a very pleasant day.. I do not pay much attention to the Valentine's Day hype in the West but in Cuba this day is…
Feb 15, 2023
REMNANTS OF THE JEWISH MELLAH OF AZEMOUR , MAROC/MARRUECOS/MOROCCO
AZEMMOUR , city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. In the 15 th century Azemmour was a free city with 20,000 inhabitants, of whom 2,500 were Jews, mainly occupied as…
Jan 15, 2023
USA HAS A SERIOUS NUTRITION PROBLEM, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR RACE WHITE OR BLACK OR LATINO
Original Investigation January 9, 2023 Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Total and Cause-Specific Mortality Zhilei Shan, MD, PhD 1,2,3 ; Fenglei Wang, PhD 3 ; Yanping Li, MD, PhD…
Jan 15, 2023
WHERE ARE YOU FROM ORIGINALLY? WHAT IS YOUR NATIONALITY ?
This is a question I have heard all my life. The divergence of my body (asian) and mind (post renaissance Europe) and soul (indigenous) confuses many who are used to…