Dec 15, 2011
Gauguin Pont Avon Breton Biscuits and Chocolates
GAUGUIN AMBIENTE GALETAS Y PINTURAS PONT AVON In the 19 th century, American artists not having a school of paintings to belong to flocked to France. They found Pont Avon,…
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.
Dec 15, 2011
ENDANGERED SPECIES this time LANGUAGES
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ENDANGERED SPECIES THIS TIME LANGUAGES When we think of Endangered Languages, we usually think of isolated tribes in inaccessible regions of the…
Dec 15, 2011
LEMBRANCAS DA CESARIA EVORA
Delta Lounge at EWR. I am there because of my FB status and I am flying AF that day to Paris. The Filipino attendant was organizing the newspapers that had…
Dec 15, 2011
2012 THE YEAR OF LIVING JOYOUSLY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE 2012 The Year of Living Joyously Each year brings its special brand of happiness. 2012 would be no different and something entirely…
Dec 15, 2011
Shabbat Shalom and Happy Hanukkah: It is time to go HOME
On this Friday Night, I am in an Indian Reservation and having visited two tribes on this visit to North America, it is time to go HOME.. But the Lakotas…
Nov 15, 2011
Experimental Philosophy of Everyday Life
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Experimental Philosophy of Everyday Life Following closely the real life adventures in Thought Experiments of my dear friend MC-a mixture of self-realization,…
Nov 15, 2011
Advance Australia Fair.. not for the Pommies it looks like
Increasing number of British Migrants are leaving Australia to go HOME! Something like this would have been unheard of when we were growing up..What has happened? Has Oz gone sour?…
Oct 15, 2011
We will always have Paris..Indians need you now
I have had a long and fruitful association with some tribes of North American Indians. In the years I have been coming to see them on a regular basis, I…
Oct 15, 2011
American Ingenuity or Two Dollar A day Chinese Workforce?
STEVE JOBS, AMERICAN INGENUITY, TWO DOLLAR A DAY CHINESE WORKFORCE ON WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU? This week, the Jewish High Holiday week has been full of news of all sorts.…
Oct 15, 2011
Food for the Kickapoo.. in South Florida
The Traditional Kickapoo Tribe with their homes in Eagle Pass, Texas in Maverick County and Nacimiento in Coahuila, Mexico is one of the few tribes in North America with dual…
Oct 15, 2011
Cross Cultural Sensitivity and my Kickapoo friends
I have been fortunate to have been friends with the Traditional Kickpoos with current homelands in Eagle Pass Texas and Nacimiento Mexico. They were originally in the Green Bay area…
Oct 15, 2011
VISIT THE FRIENDLY SKIES OF USA..outsiders made welcome here
Despite my repeated visits to this sprawling country and the remoteness of some of my destinations, Eagle Pass, Texas Walthill, Nebraska Eagle Butte, South Dakota; I am amazed at the…
Oct 15, 2011
Learn to Love your Brothers and Sisters.. they are everywhere
One of the images burnt in my memory is that of an Israeli soldier carrying an elderly Ethiopian Jewish woman, during the clandestine airlifting of 10 000 Ethiopian Jews to…
Sep 15, 2011
BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU HAVE.. GRATITUDE
American Indians place a lot of importance on Gratitude, feeling happy with what you have, (and thus not feeling unhappy with what you dont have) and they make a point…
Aug 15, 2011
MIAMI HOME OF DEEP FRIENDSHIPS
Miami has always held a special place in my heart, ever since I arrived there as a student! over the years I have come to visit, and for a memorable…
Aug 15, 2011
UmonHon Indian Annual Harvest Dance
what a great privilege it is for me, a jewish boy from the southern suburbs of Melbourne, now attached by my soul to Cuba, to be witnessing the familial warmth…
Jul 15, 2011
YOGA LIFESTYLE: CHOLESTEROL.WEIGHT REDUCTION.PRE-DIABETES
YOGA LIFESTYLE: CHOLESTEROL.WEIGHT REDUCTION.PRE-DIABETES Get the <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/ultimate-web-translator-with-flags">ultimate web translator with flags</a> widget and many other <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/"&a
Jul 15, 2011
HAPPY JULY FOURTH DEAR FRIENDS IN AMERICA: FROM MALAYSIA
My brother, like many good jewish men, sells shmatta but the quality of goods he sells, I cant afford to buy! so I am always happy when he gives me…