Sep 15, 2009
I am going to work 12 september 2009
I thought to myself, I am going to work… On this day, 12 th September 2009 As the Continental Airlines 767-400 took off from CDG, I had a curious sensation:…
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.
Sep 15, 2009
What am I doing here?
WHY MunChing with two Hocank youngsters Today is 10th September 2009. In exactly 11 days, I will leave MIAMI for a long flight to KLIA.. leaving at 5 45 pm…
Sep 15, 2009
Pampering yourself in KL Part 2
I wonder how many Men have regular Facials? being a traveller, with at least once a month voyage transcontinentally, I find Facials at my destinations to be good for the…
Aug 15, 2009
Alain de Boton A philosopher of Everyday Life
Philosopher of Everyday Life Alain de Boton is being paid 30 000 pounds to stay at the London Healthrow terminal 5 to observe and write about the life among the…
Aug 15, 2009
Dr SYKS and Alain de Boton on Work and Happiness
I was extraordinarily lucky to have had my medical education divided between three countries: London in England, a medical model still paying attention to the great masters of the past…
Jul 15, 2009
Reading Pablo Neruda among Los Indios
it is incredible how beautiful this part of the world looks, especially through the eyes of a stranger, after rain and fog rising out and at dusk, many cotton tail…
Jul 15, 2009
Immigration Officers at New York.. not representative of USA
Where do they get them from? Arrived at the EWR international airport after a swift and smooth flight from Paris. There were only two people in front of me at…
Jul 15, 2009
Cuban Heart and Parisian Mind and Sefardi Stomach
Newly found Love for Paris One thing you would learn living in Cuba is that you are curious about most things and you become very observant. when you show someone…
Jul 15, 2009
Cultural Frankensteins of Cuba
Cultural Frankenstein How the foreigners fail to transact symbols in Cuba. Sometimes, it is interesting to see a Cuban walking by, and your immediate thought is Here goes a cultural…
Jun 15, 2009
Unexpecteed Pleasures…
Unexpected Pleasures La Habana, 27 th June 2009 Two important conversations, both related to my work in Anthropology and also the future of my work here in La Habana. One…
Jun 15, 2009
Por que yo soy revolucionario/a?
Day 3 La Habana Diaries 23 June 2009 I will tell you why I am a revolutionary I was sitting in a verandah of a colonial house lined with plants,…
Jun 15, 2009
About the Five Good Friends I had come to see
Day 3 in Havana. Early Morning. As usual, another night of deep sleep. During the week with the Indians, the sleep was so disturbed, waking up at 2 am and…
Jun 15, 2009
Vedado, mi barrio de la Habana
Monday Afternoon, Day 2 in La Habana. 22 June 2009 Is today the Equinox? Whatever day it is, it s a hot day here in La habana. Only people who…
Jun 15, 2009
Thinking about my Brothers Yitzhak and Eliyahu…
Cuba Narrative 2 Today is 22 nd June 2009 On June 14 th 2005, I was in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in Hanoi, having requested the receptionist to…
Jun 15, 2009
A Quiet Sunday afternoon at an Indian Reservation
It is very pleasant, this solitude, being alone in the house, surrounded by silence and all windows open and it is verdant all around, with large trees standing guard. sundays…
May 15, 2009
Life is a long vacation with intervals of work
The Pleasant Long Commute to work among the Los Indios.. How often do you begin your journey to work with a glass of French Champagne? I was inside the Air…
May 15, 2009
Your Country, Leave it for a While.. You might Gain from It
LIVING ABROAD GIVES YOU A CREATIVE EDGE To check that they had not merely discovered that creative people are more likely to choose to live abroad, Dr Maddux and Dr…
May 15, 2009
To Myanmar with Love.. Indeed
An Unusual Tale of Love in the time of Cyclones, Monks and Masters Myanmar is a mysterious country. Politically speaking, which I rather not do, it has been stuck in…