Mar 15, 2013
SEARCHING FOR SEDER IN BRUSSELS
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Searching for Seder in Brussels I used to be very active in Jewish Student affairs when I was at school as well…
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, 2013
A WANDERING JEW’S PESACH: SO HAPPY TO CELEBRATE, SO HAPPY TO REMEMBER
This evening, all over the world, Jewish People of all hues, nationalities, religious beliefs will celebrate PESACH.. Over the course of years, I have been lucky to celebrate Passover Seder…
Mar 15, 2013
EUROPEAN AUSSIE TOURISTS SEEN AS BEGGARS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE EUROPEAN/AMERICAN/AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO ASIA SEEN AS BEGGARS Last year an astonishing one billion (nearly one out six humans on this planet) took…
Mar 15, 2013
AMERICA IS THE FUTURE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE AMERICA IS THE FUTURE* *APPLICABLE TO AUSTRALIA, CANADA AND NZ TO A LESSER DEGREE Why do I think so? After many years…
Mar 15, 2013
UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS OF SPIRITUALITY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE All who wander are not lost. It is a line rather well known among Travellers, it is from a poem (once again…
Mar 15, 2013
FOOD AS MEDICINE, NOT JUST SUSTENANCE
When you talk to many of the western trained doctors or nutritionists, they tend to reduce food into Medical Nutritional Therapy as if eating is a form of Therapy for…
Feb 15, 2013
IT IS WITH THE HEART THAT ONE SEES
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Long before these sentiments became known through the words of St Exupery, the sentiments had been known to the Indians. On…
Feb 15, 2013
THE NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS IN REMOTE MEXICO: KONG HEE FATT CHOY , CHUC MUNG NAM MOI
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE KONG HEE FATT CHOY, CHUC MUNG NAM MOI AND WHO ELSE IS CELEBRATING THEIR NEW YEAR. If you think that Indian tribes…
Jan 15, 2013
SIGN OF THE TIMES IN EUROPEAN CITIES
Walking along this pleasant city, I was amazed at the similarities (at least superficially) that meets a visitor to the central part of the city. Retired moslem women from Maghreb,…
Jan 15, 2013
PATIENT CENTERED PEER EDUCATION: AMONG THE KICKAPOO/KIKAPU OF TEXAS/MEXICO
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PATIENT CENTERED PEER EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE…AMONG THE KICKAPOO/KIKAPU OF TEXAS/MEXICO The 10-seater van was fairly new, had Mexican License plates. Mena…
Jan 15, 2013
A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST TRIP REPORT: ONE-WEEK IN AMERICA I was still a student in Australia when I…
Jan 15, 2013
LIFESTYLE AND CANCER: TO GAIN RESPECT, YOU GIVE RESPECT
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LIFESTYLE AND CANCER While the MORTALITY (death) from cancer has declined in the USA (Treatment and Early diagnosis), the incidence (new cases,…
Jan 15, 2013
RITUALS AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LIMINALITY : JANUARY 2013
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It was on the first few days of a fresh New Year in la Habana, when someone introduced me to Augusto Monterroso…
Jan 15, 2013
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: NOSTALGIA FOR NAMIBIA
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: NOSTALGIA FOR NAMIBIA When I was reading Anthropology at London, had a chance to visit the San people of…
Jan 15, 2013
THE YEAR 2013 HAS BEGUN WELL
There are always some Constant Stars in my skies: American Indians Cuba Family in Miami The new star for 2012 was certainly PJ and Indonesia. Malaysia, Myanmar, India and Iran…
Dec 15, 2012
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN PARIS OF JAWA: BANDOENG
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN PARIS OF JAWA AND MEMORIES OF THE MAGIC OF BANDOENG On a good day, without the perennial traffic jams…
Dec 15, 2012
THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL TIME
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL TIME The greatest gift that I can give to my friends is TIME. That is why I…
Dec 15, 2012
GRATITUDE TOWARDS MY TEACHERS
GRATITUDE TOWARDS MY TEACHERS American Indians, as always Lately, MC in KL, PKJ in Bogor When the student is ready, a teacher would appear. Instead of roaming around the world…