Jan 15, 2022
HOW TO MAKE CHAI FROM AN AMERICAN FRIEND OF MINE … DRINK OF PARADISE INDEED
I have a close friend I met through our work with Native Indians of the USA. She worked as a Director of Nursing at one of the larger reservations in…
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, 2022
ENDOCRINOLOGIST-ANTHROPOLOGIST TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, IN THIS CASE THE AMERICAN INDIANS. LOS INDIOS
I am happy to have come to the USA for my post graduate studies in Endocrinology (excellent clinical education at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami) but even…
Dec 15, 2021
A NICE DAY OF FRIENDSHIP. SOUTH FLORIDA IN USA
My closest friends in South Florida live 120 km north from where I stay in Miami. The Highway takes you there in less than an hour and half, allowing me…
Nov 15, 2021
WHEN AND HOW VIPASSANA MEDITATION COME TO BE INTRODUCED TO MY WORLD VIEW? A PERSONAL HISTORY
Who has not heard of Easter Island and the legendary Moai there? Because of the extreme isolation of the island, travel there is not easy. I have been lucky enough…
Nov 15, 2021
STRANGE TO BE DREAMING OF TRAVEL AND NOT BEING ABLE TO BOOK ANYTHING HA.. 2019 WAS SUCH A GOOD YEAR FOR TRAVEL PRE COVID
I felt that the year 2019 was an extraordinarily good year for travel . COUNTRIES VISITED IN 2019 MANY TIMES USA CUBA FRANCE MEXICO COLOMBIA BRASIL ARGENTINA URUGUAY CHILE EASTER…
Oct 15, 2021
iVAN ILLICH. THE MEDICAL NEMESIS
CUERNAVACA, MEXICO is so full of longings. No puedo vivir sin amor, laments the alcoholic ex-British consul played by that great actor Albert Finney in Malcolm Lowery's book Under the…
Oct 15, 2021
SYMBOLIC HEALING
In the West (and those developing countries influenced by it), healing systems of their culture is considered absolute and the others given the collective nomenclature: Complementary or alternative. The western…
Oct 15, 2021
A VERY SPECIAL FULL MOON 20 OCTOBER 2021
It has been raining with accompanying thunder in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The State of Kerala in India is inundated floods. SriRacha, Chon Buri in Thailand has gusty winds and cloudy…
Oct 15, 2021
SURVIVAL DURING THE PASSAGE OF TIME THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS
Survival during the passage of time I look forward to the monthly FULL moon Satsang with Sadhguru the mystic from South India. Tonight was the full moon 20 September 2021…
Sep 15, 2021
REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11TH.. THE STAB THAT BEGAN AS A TRICKLE NOW FLOODS THE RIVERS OF HATRED IN THIS WORLD
Saturday, September 11, 2021 Miami Remembering the Terrorist Event 20 years ago in which we all lost so much: mainly an innocence. It was a pivotal moment for those with…
Sep 15, 2021
JEWISH NEW YEAR 5782 WITH ALL LOVED ONES IN THE HEART .. FROM MIAMI WITH LOVE
The Jewish New Year has already begun for me. Second year in a row, that there would be no communal get together. So be with the people who mean friendship…
Sep 15, 2021
THIS JEWISH NEW YEAR FOR OUR SISTERS IN IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN..EVERYWHERE ELSE THEY NEED TO CELEBRATE
The Jewish New Year is upon us..Couldnt celebrate properly last year and this year seems we will celebrate on line with whoever wish to share these days.. This being human…
Aug 15, 2021
TWO UMONHON INDIAN RELATIVES COME TO VISIT
Two UmonHon Indian relatives dropped in for a lovely short visit! I had not seen them since November 2018, but for a period of 3 years we saw each other…
Jul 15, 2021
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE FRENCH PARADOX ? THEY DEFINITELY EAT BETTER. VARIETY. SMALL PORTION. FRESHLY COOKED.
I have been in this small Breton city/large village of Quiberon which is very tourist oriented, but I had come to visit people who live here. Our meals are usually…
Jul 15, 2021
VIVE LA FRANCE: MISSIONARY APPROACH RATHER THAN THE MERCENARY APPROACH WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH CARE: AN EXAMPLE
The sentence: Mission oriented rather than mercenary approach and in the end Missionary approach wins.. is from Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com I will tell you about a personal…
May 15, 2021
VISIT TO AN INDIGENOUS VILLAGE AND THEY INTRODUCE ME TO THE FOREST
Last night I felt an excitement which I couldn't explain and always reminded me of my Meskwakia teacher : What a pity you are not smart enough to understand all…
May 15, 2021
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI … WHERE SHALL I GO ?
These are the countries which are close to my heart and in each one of them there are conflicts of one sort of another: all politicized, whether it is the…
May 15, 2021
WHAT IS MORE DANGEROUS? COCA COLA OR AL QAEDA ?
Since the 1980s, in the USA, obesity and diseases related to that have been on the increase. Despite the enormous amount of money spent on TREATMENT (Americans are less interested…