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…
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.
Feb 15, 2021
SAUDADE SODADE marooned in Miami
It is 4 pm in the afternoon The sun is fading in the horizon leaving that tender touch on your skin A medical student in London is making tea A…
Sep 15, 2020
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT IN MIAMI
It was love at first sight. I remember arriving in Miami and seeing the city and the water. I have always loved Miami, having spent years at the University of…
Sep 15, 2020
BEAUTY OF MIAMI IS NOT THE GLITTER AND GLAMOUR AND THE LATIN BLING.. BUT WHAT NATURE CAN PROVIDE .. HAVE TO LOOK FOR IT
I realized this sojourn in Miami compels to appreciate the beauty of Miami a friend of mine, whom I call the Optimistic Optometrist or I and I, sent me photos…
Jul 15, 2020
READING SHAMLOU IN MIAMI IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES ..
I think of Ahmad Shamlou in the same manner I think of Pablo Neruda of Chile and Pramoedya Ananta Toer of Indonesia . All suffered for their beliefs. But they…
Jul 15, 2020
THE MORNING HAS RISEN IN MIAMI…. IT IS NICE TO WAKE UP THE SUN …
The last scene in a movie that I remember as an adolescent, Orfeo Negro, one boy persuading another to play the guitar so that the Sun will rise over the…
Jul 15, 2020
FULL MOON OVER MIAMI. … MY GOOD WISHES TO MY FRIENDS IN CUBA, BRASIL, IRAN, MALAYSIA, INDIA, FRANCE AMONG OTHERS
photos taken from the backyard of my sister's house in Miami. The sun sets later at this time of this year in Miami, around 8 15 pm and it is…
Jun 15, 2020
VISIT TO A GHOST TOWN. MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
I know this airport so well.. and i could not believe what I saw today. all concourses were empty, no agents nor any identification of any airlines, hardly any human…
Jun 15, 2020
WE WILL MEET AGAIN DAME VERA LYNN ECHOES IN MIAMI
We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do 'Till the blue skies…
Jun 15, 2020
MEMORIAS, SAUDADES Y SENTIMIENTOS… A RAINY EVENING IN MIAMI GRAY SKIES BRIGHT RED PONCIANAS WHITE PLUMERIAS AND LIGHT CARESSING RAIN
Natalie d'Arbeloff Born in Paris, raised in Europe, Paraguay, Brazil and the USA, Natalie d’Arbeloff speaks those languages and lives in London. Her father was Russian and her mother French.…
Jun 15, 2020
AFTER TEN WEEKS OF HOME ISOLATION, THE FIRST BREATH OF NATURE MIAMI
THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF DR. FAIRCHILD I had read two about and by him and had visited many of the places he had been and thought of the time he…
Jun 15, 2020
A SPECIAL SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI
The Sun has set in Miami, the three stars have appeared, bursting through the still blue skies. Today is a special welcome to the Shabbat I prepare to light the…
Jun 15, 2020
THE FIRST DAY OF THE END OF SOCIAL ISOLATION FOR ME , IN MIAMI
For me, today is the day, the social isolation in Miami which I had gleefully accepted, stopped. Lovely day to walk around the Botanic Gardens which had been part of…
May 15, 2020
IT IS A GOOD DAY TO BE GRATEFUL HELLO ON 31.05.2020 FROM MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA
An influential Guru in India always reminds his flock: When you wake up, be grateful that another day is waiting for you. In the Yogic teaching, along with any philosophical…
Apr 15, 2020
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION IN MIAMI …
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION ? NO ANXIETY NO FEAR BUT SHEER JOY OF FRIENDS FROM NEAR AND FAR. 30 APRIL 2020 IN MIAMI WHICH IS UNDER LOCKDOWN The…
Mar 15, 2020
7 19 AM 20.3.2020 IRAN. SPRING EQUINOX AND IT IS 1149 PM IN MIAMI
Today is NOWRUZ, the first day of the Iranian New Year. A terrible time, a terrible year past for the people of Iran so better to hope and dream of…
Mar 15, 2020
BEDLAM IN USA BUT CALM MINDFUL NIGHT IN MIAMI
People worry that they would be bored if they have to stay home for more than a few days, as most people in this world are forced to do now…
Mar 15, 2020
IT WAS 11 30 PM IN MIAMI AND I WAS LISTENING TO A FRENCH SONG
Certain songs push you over the ridge of nostalgia or to be perfectly correct, Saudade, and a sweet tender feeling comes over, envelopes you like a satin sheet and someone…