Jul 15, 2020
LOTS OF DISCOURSES ON HAPPINESS… HOW ABOUT LIVING IT ?
By an immense stroke of luck, I was able to spend an extended period of time in Southern Sweden. I had left Australia where I felt so secure about our…
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.
Mar 15, 2020
A HAPPY SONG FROM ISRAEL ..A COMBINATION OF MIDDLE EASTERN MELODIES. SHLOMI SHABAT. YUVAL DAYAN. IDAN AMEDI
We are living through a little difficult times that requires understanding of one another and also tolerant and compassionate behaviours to the others and be considerate of the feeble persons…
Mar 15, 2020
EVERY BEING HAD BECOME A BUDDHA
when I learned about Kleishas or Structural defects of the minds (in KL in 2009), I thought of the wonderful times I had spent in the most Buddhist country on…
Dec 15, 2019
QATAR . QATAR AIRWAYS . DOHA . MARRIOTT MARQUIS HOTEL . FOR ME ..
In this crazy world we are living in at the moment, whether large scale demonstrations in India or mass slaughtering of the protesters in Iran or jihadists knifing non believers…
Dec 15, 2019
THE FROZEN ROSE . A POIGNANT SHORT FILM FROM IRAN
How many countries I have fallen in LOVE in all these years of my travels? AUSTRALIA USA JAMAICA ENGLAND CUBA AND HAVE FELT STRONG EMOTIONS FOR MEXICO ARGENTINA FRANCE BELGIUM…
Dec 15, 2019
THIS IS NOT A BLOG . BUT A RECORD OF MY TRAVELS IN 2019
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Year 2019 has been a good year for travel, but then again which year has not been a good one ?…
Nov 15, 2019
THANK YOU FOR NOT COMING… WISH YOU WERE NOT HERE
Currently there is a healthy trend in the minds of the potential visitors from Europe and other richer nations about TOURISM and the destinations. As you have seen, VENICE is…
Nov 15, 2019
NICE TO HAVE A BROTHER WHO IS A GOOD TRAVEL PARTNER
I usually travel alone but occasionally do share it with someone. I have a brother who lives in USA and we get to travel occasionally and in fact it was…
Oct 15, 2019
CASUALIDAD NO ES TAN CASUAL . COINCIDENCES DO NOT EXIST A STORY FROM FORT COCHIN KERALA
I am not sure when I first heard the phrase, Coincidences do not exist but much sonorous in Spanish, Casualidad no es tan Casual..but one thing for sure. It was…
Sep 15, 2019
LAST DAY OF JEWISH YEAR 5779 . WHAT A LOVELY END!
WHAT A LOVELY END Loves have only grown.. CUBA my home, the numerous brothers and sister that I toil for.. a glass of Chenin Blanc from an Indian winery, ah…
Sep 15, 2019
THE TRAGEDY OF HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE BECOME REFUGEES
When I first arrived in Miami as a student, the reputation of Venezuela was that of a rich country with lots of its citizens owning prime real estate in Miami,…
Jun 15, 2019
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DYING BECAUSE OF LACK OF IMMUNITY . THE YEAR IS 2019
Many of the indigenous peoples around the world had lived their lives in relative comfort and conditions when OUTSIDERS began to arrive.. it does not matter that it happened 4000-2500…
Jun 15, 2019
HOME IN DOHA FOR A HOMELESS HUMANITARIAN DOCTOR THANK YOU AND GRACIAS
When my good friend Dr Jim Kerr from South Dakota came to visit me in Miami, he quipped: You are homeless but certainly Upper Class.. he was not thinking of…
Jun 15, 2019
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES CLUB AT THE SATELLITE TERMINAL . LOVELY PRE FLIGHT DINNER
As usual I was flying out of Kuala Lumpur International Airport 1 (2 is where Air Asia flies out of). I try to arrive a little early, the check in,…
Jun 15, 2019
TALK TO THE PALMS, THEY WOULD RECOGNIZE THE CHANGO
Walking around the Les Corts neighbourhood of Barcelona I saw very many palms, knowing that this climate is not that suitable for the palms. But also could see some new…
Jun 15, 2019
PABLO NERUDA IN COLOMBO, IN YANGON, IN BATAVIA AND IN MY HEART
Last night in conversation, Pablo Neruda's name came up again,as I was describing my recent trip to Myanmar. I have written many times before about Pablo, Rangoon, Josie Bliss all…
Jun 15, 2019
WHAT DOES A TROPICAL ENDOCRINOLOGIST DO IN SIEM REAP CAMBODIA
MAKE NEW FRIENDS OF COURSE .. The day begins of course with a nice breakfast.. But the time difference between Cuba and Cambodia is 11 hours, so I had to…
Jun 15, 2019
CHAUK HTAT GYI RECLINING BUDDHA TO PRAY FOR BQ MY SISTER IN HAVANA
My little island of Cuba is blessed with wonderful people and I can count many good friends there. BQ is so unselfish and goes out of the way to help…