May 15, 2018
A JEW IN QATAR AND OTHER STORIES
A JEW IN QATAR AND OTHER STORIES It is sunny outside nary a cloud but haze over the multiple modern buildings that surround this bay in Doha, Qatar. this is…
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, 2018
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO COLOMBO
I was in the Lounge, empty at that hour of the day and wanted to try the two wines on offer. I was busy taking photos of the wine and…
Sep 15, 2017
TRAVEL IS SUCH A SAD PLEASURE
Travel is Such a Sad Pleasure The above sentence brings back several sentiments, first of all, on this trip: La Habana-Miami-Los Indios-Doha-Casablanca-Doha-Siem Reap-Kuala Lumpur and now to Quiberon in France…
Feb 15, 2017
SADHGURU’S TEN TIPS FOR HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS
Like many other things, Philosophy also arrived by the back door in my life. Never took a course in Philosophy but sitting on the banks of the River Seine in…
Nov 15, 2016
THE JEWISH COCHIN: TWO MIZRACHI BROTHERS IN COCHIN NOVEMBER 2016
This is a pictorial essay of a recent visit to the JEWISH COUNTRY in the COCHIN area in Malabar/Kerala, INDIA. My brother Eliahu, was born in Bombay of Iraqi and…
Jul 15, 2016
NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM AND YOGIC PHILOSOPHY: HOW TO LIVE COMFORTABLY EACH DAY WITHOUT CONFLICT
I have been traveling continuously since 1993, when I left the flat in London on a journey to Malaysia, even though I had not lived anywhere permanently since 1986. What…
Jun 15, 2016
OMAN AIR: SERVICES ON THE GROUND AND IN THE LOUNGES AND AT AIRPORTS
IF YOU ARE NOT A FOODIE, YOU MIGHT FIND THE PHOTOS OF THE FOOD ITEMS A BIT TOO EXTRAVAGANT, PERHAPS YOU SHOULD SKIP THIS BLOG On 9th June I took…
Jan 15, 2016
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF 2016 WELCOME TO CUBA
Life is not about the regrets about the PAST nor about the anxieties of the FUTURE. As I sit here at the Admirals Club at Heathrow Airport in London, I…
Oct 15, 2015
ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE NEW SCIENCE
ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE NEW SCIENCE When you are with Indigenous people, you begin to understand intuitively, myth, history, symbolism. Claude Levi-Strauss recognized this 80 years ago when he worked…
Jun 15, 2015
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY I just had a wonderful trip on Etihad Airways, very content, despite it being 15 hours in length. It was good to observe…
Apr 15, 2015
MALAYALEE MEMORY
I wrote this in 2008! On my recent visit in March 2015, it was as true as it was before: The Malayalee Memory or is it everywhere they are In…
Mar 15, 2015
Visiting With Purpose Or Just Passing
VISITING WITH A PURPOSE OR JUST PASSING THROUGH I can recognize two types of Tourists: one group that is passing through, they didn’t come here because they have any special…
Nov 15, 2014
HOW TO LEAD AN INTERESTING LIFE: MOVIES AND MEMORY
There are some childhood memories, for me, the tropical torpor of the village of Kuala Belait, in Brunei, where wearing a newly acquired jacket which made me sweat heavily, I…
Jun 15, 2014
UPDATE FROM CAMBODIA.. DONE WITH MIXING WITH LOCALS, NEXT TIME NOVOTEL or RAFFLES
I am writing this from Joe to Go Cafe in the centre of the tourist area in Siem Reap, in the relative comfort of an early morning air conditioning, while…
Apr 15, 2014
DO THEY SERVE MATZOH ON AMERICAN AIRLINES? LAMENT FOR A MISSED SEDER BY A JEW WHO WANDERED A BIT TOO MUCH
One of the earliest lines of Spanish Poetry that made me want to learn the tongue of Cervantes, was, read on my way from school in Sweden to home in…
Mar 15, 2014
NAT IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT RANGOON, BURMA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF AN ENCOUNTER AT THE SYNGAGOUE IN RANGOON! Burma, or its modern name, Myanmar, had offered welcome to Iraqi…
Feb 15, 2014
TRAVEL THAT EVOKES THE SENSATION OF CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE
TRAVEL: THE EVOKED SENSATION OF CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE I have been extraordinarily lucky when it comes to travel. Starting at age 2 ½ that was not my decision, but seriously since…
Dec 15, 2013
OMAN IS A SPECIAL ARAB COUNTRY : RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A JEWISH TRAVELLER
WHY DO I TRAVEL TO OMAN WHY IS IT SO SPECIAL When I sent emails from Salalah, Oman on a recent stopover there, a good friend of mine asked: Why…