May 15, 2022
LOVELY TIME OF THE EVENING IN MIAMI BUT MIND IS LIMINAL
How quickly memories of a recent trip fades into the banality of everyday life even if you are surrounded by beauty. Travel is movement, every day life is stationary. My…
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.
May 15, 2022
MAQROLL EL GAVIERO JUDIO, YEHUDA K OF NO PERMANENT ADDRESS, THE LAST ONE SEAT 1 A FROM SINGAPORE TO JFK
When did Maqroll enter my life? When did Maqroll become me ? the always about to sink steamer Halcyon and the absent minded owner from the Levant Abdur Bashur and…
Apr 15, 2022
THE DIRTY DOZEN: THE CONUNDRUM OF PROFESSIONAL ADVICE VS PESTICIDES AND WHAT CAN YOU DO ?
E very two years, a watchdog group of Environmentalist, gain the data from the US Department of Agriculture and USDA and publish a list of vegetables and fruits which have…
Mar 15, 2022
SPRING 2022 HAS ARRIVED SO HAS NOWRUZ AND IMMENSE HAPPINESS IN OUR LIVES
It has been an extraordinary day.. My friends in Iran prepared and started celebrating NOWRUZ the Persian New year, remembering a time long when Zoroastrianism was the creed of the…
Mar 15, 2022
HOW DID I ENCOUNTER PABLO NERUDA AND ALVARO MUTIS ? IN NEW YORK OF COURSE
I have always identified myself as a Jewish Boy from Melbourne, even though I have lived in other places and other countries. Learning to speak Spanish, I am fairly proficient…
Feb 15, 2022
THE VALUE OF A DAY WELL SPENT; AMERICAN INDIANS. ADOPTED FAMILY. A TASTY PHO. AND ANAPANA MEDITATION BEFORE RETIRING
Today has been an unusually calm and content day without any form of conflict . One of those delightful days The responsible people were a friend visiting from Cayman Islands,…
Feb 15, 2022
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES TO ENRICH OUR LIVES.. THEY ARE WAITING FOR US EVERYWHERE ..
Went inside a supermarket Flavours of another America wafted towards the creaking doors warped with time and usage I wanted some incense, sugar which is not refined perhaps some coffee…
Jan 15, 2022
LANDS OF THE SAMI PEOPLE IN HE NORTH.. SWEDEN NORWAY FINLAND AND RUSSIA
I consider myself to be very fortunate to have visited the SAMI people. They are spread over the arctic in Norway and Sweden, Finland and Russia in a large contiguous…
Jan 15, 2022
IT IS RAINING IN PARADISE . BE HERE AND BE PRESENT
Delightful day at the National park among the Indigenous people. as always. Someone determined to chat, comes through the rain, clutching his dog He asks for a towel so that…
Dec 15, 2021
A GOOD DAY TO BE GRATEFUL, BE AWARE THAT YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING, DISTANCE FROM ATTACHMENT
I am at this large house by myself. Tranquil able to concentrate and to think. also realize who your friends are and who would be there for you Mr Carlos…
Dec 15, 2021
A WONDERFUL BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE WITHIN THE PANDEMIC: OZONE THERAPY. EXERCISE WITH NATIVE TRAINERS. VIPASSANA
Today has been a good day.. Was it the Ozone therapy that I received over the weekend or the wonderful meals? of the pleasure of talking to an Indian Elder?…
Nov 15, 2021
GIVE THANKS TO ALL THINGS USA HAS GIVEN TO YOU, WROTE MY FRIEND DR MARCOS MORDECHAI ON THIS DAY
Even though I have a very long association with USA and especially Miami, I have never considered living here nor was I forced to live here. That is, until Covid…
Nov 15, 2021
IN MYSTICISM, GENDER HAS NO ROLE . SADHGURU ON FULL MOON NIGHT 18.11.2021
SADHGURU the Indian mystic was in Dubai on the Full Moon night talking about Prana Vayu and this time about UDANA.. floating around, not allowing the composition of the body…
Nov 15, 2021
STRANGE TO BE DREAMING OF TRAVEL AND NOT BEING ABLE TO BOOK ANYTHING HA.. 2019 WAS SUCH A GOOD YEAR FOR TRAVEL PRE COVID
I felt that the year 2019 was an extraordinarily good year for travel . COUNTRIES VISITED IN 2019 MANY TIMES USA CUBA FRANCE MEXICO COLOMBIA BRASIL ARGENTINA URUGUAY CHILE EASTER…
Nov 15, 2021
MOROCCO IS NOT AN ARAB COUNTRY, IT IS A BERBER COUNTRY OCCUPIED BY ARABS WHO CAME FROM BAGHDAD AND THE EAST
Currently there is a. great fascination in the west for "occupied lands and peoples". A deep examination would reveal a group of people who do not have a wholistic understanding…
Nov 15, 2021
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS 2 NOV MEXICO, FOR MANY OTHERS THE DAY OF THE LIVING DEAD and PABLO NERUDA IN RANGOON
It had been raining, the day with the Indigenous people living in the Park has been emotional. Two colleagues needed help, one talked about her husband and the other one…
Oct 15, 2021
SYMBOLIC HEALING
In the West (and those developing countries influenced by it), healing systems of their culture is considered absolute and the others given the collective nomenclature: Complementary or alternative. The western…
Oct 15, 2021
THE DAY AFTER THE FULL MOON NIGHT
Photographs of the Full Moon kept on coming.. The full moon under a blue sky in the National Park where the indigenous people live The full moon was still visible…