Mar 15, 2016
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN MALACCA: LE YIN AND AMIN
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN MALACCA: LE YIN AND AMIN I have been a frequent visitor to Malacca, the historic town in the peninsular Malaysia which has a parallel history to Fort…
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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, 2016
MIAMI TO HAVANA: FLIGHTS BECOMING MORE FREQUENT
On a recent transit at the Miami International Airport, I saw eight flights departing for Havana that morning!I had always imagined a miami-havana airbridge with hourly or half hourly flights…
Mar 15, 2016
PURIM IN LA HABANA, JOY OF PURIM FROM COCHIN
The Purim greetings I fondly recollect was the one my younger brother Ricardo sent me from Jerusalem in 2009. Two young orthodox Jewish children were dressed in Arab costumes of…
Mar 15, 2016
ALIYAH TO AMERICA.. thoughts after Brussels massacre
From a personal point of view, these past few days have not been the best of days. I had a most wonderful time in the past few weeks: American Indians,…
Feb 15, 2016
UNSUNG HEROES OF QATAR AIRWAYS DOHA BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE
UNSUNG HEROES OF QATAR AIRWAYS DOHA BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE When one talks about service aboard a flight on long haul journeys, one is not talking about USA based airlines or…
Feb 15, 2016
FORT COCHIN A SPIRITUAL HOME
FORT COCHIN, A SPIRITUAL HOME Even though Fort Cochin cannot give me the exhilaration of walking along the streets of my neighbourhood of Vedado, in La Habana, it has given…
Feb 15, 2016
PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND THE ARTIST: YOU MEET THOSE YOU NEED TO MEET
DOCTOR AND THE ARTIST YOU MEET THOSE YOU NEED TO MEET Stop looking for them! admonished my Meskwakia teacher, “dr” Brown. You don’t need to search, they will cross your…
Feb 15, 2016
MY LIFE OF FEAST AND FAMINE.. HAVANA IS THE MOVABLE FEAST..MIAMI INDIAN COUNTRY COCHIN FOR VARIOUS REASONS
I always look forward to going back to La Havana. Unbridled affections the chance to be yourself and spontaneous. I understand fully when a friend of mine, on his visit…
Jan 15, 2016
SWOON OVER MIAMI MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH TROPICAL LANGUOR
SWOON OVER MIAMI: LOVE AFFAIR WITH TROPICAL TORPOR CONTINUES. 2016 Just a few days ago, I said a symbolic good bye to Europe. It is symbolic rather than pedantic, as…
Jan 15, 2016
IF YOU WISH TO BE HAPPY PRACTICE COMPASSION, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE OTHERS HAPPY PRACTICE COMPASSION
Yesterday I was watching a TED talk video from the director of the Harvard Project , which had followed a cohort of people in Boston, including Harvard College students 1938,…
Jan 15, 2016
FOOD AS CELEBRATION: NEW YEARS EVE IN QUIBERON, BRITTANY, FRANCE
FOOD AS A CELEBRATION: NEW YEARS EVE IN QUIBERON, BRITTANY, FRANCE. When you are working with the American Indians, one becomes aware of the superficial and deep symbolism attached to…
Dec 15, 2015
WHY ARE EDUCATED IMMIGRANTS FROM INDIA SO ATTRACTED TO FRAUD IN THE USA ? THE CASE OF DOCTORS
FROM THE ECONOMIST AND TO QUOTE Some criminals are switching from cocaine trafficking to prescription-drug fraud because the risk-adjusted rewards are higher: the money is still good, the work safer…
Dec 15, 2015
MY SISTER FRIEND FROM GRAYLAND, WASHINGTON
For a person who was not fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with those related by blood to me, I have been extraordinarily grateful for the many members…
Nov 15, 2015
SPEECH BY FRENCH PRIME MINISTER MORE RELEVANT NOW THAN EVER
I am touched by the solidarity Solidarite shown by people all around the world for France and its people and also for Jewish People at this very difficult time. I…
Oct 15, 2015
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE EMERGING WORLD OF ASIA IRAN INDIA MALAYSIA
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE EMERGING WORLD Personal thoughts about IRAN INDIA MALAYSIA The idea to write this blog came when I was on a long distance flight reading FT of…
Oct 15, 2015
PLANET OF PRE DIABETES: THE CASE OF COLOMBIAN AMAZON
PLANET OF PRE-DIABETES OR HOW I GOT A DISCOUNT AT A PHOTOSHOP IN COLOMBIAN AMAZON One visionary leader in the year 2000 went against the then enthusiastic endorsement of globalization…
Sep 15, 2015
MOTORCYCLE AND OBESITY: THE CHINESE CONTRIBUTION TO COLOMBIAN OBESITY
MOTORCYLES AND OBESITY Or China’s Contribution to the Obesity in Developing Countries, in this case Colombia It was in Leticia, a small delightful town along the Amazon, I first heard…
Sep 15, 2015
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO KIND TO ME? AN EREV YOM KIPPUR REFLECTION
Why are people so nice to me? I asked Alejandra, the lady in charge of the Amazonas BnB where I am staying in Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, just across from…