Oct 15, 2009
Welcome to Tijuana.. thus sang ManuChao
WELCOME TO THE USA Global Entry Programme As I have to visit USA on a fairly regular basis,( 13 visits this year to Miami, our Other Cuba) I applied for…
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.
Oct 15, 2009
Hurrah for USA and of course, Hurrah for Australia!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pbt5_portrait-delizabeth-blackburn-biolo_creation Elizabeth Blackburn was raised in Tasmania and educated in Melbourne before going to Cambridge to get her PhD. She has been in the uSA since 1988. And she is…
Oct 15, 2009
A day in the life of an Endocrinologist
Walk over to the school in the morning and chat and check about 26 students. Mainly for their propensity for Insulin Resistance and future Type 2 Diabetes. In between other…
Sep 15, 2009
Thinking about Mahler on a Bright Sunny Day in Paris
Sitting on the steps of Opera Garnier, this afternoon, reading the excellent Biography of Gabo, and feeling elated and hopeful, I thought of Gustav Mahler, the austro hungarian jew who…
Sep 15, 2009
Journey to Friends Food and Other Loves Day 1
I thought the journey had begun well, when my coworker at the Indian Clinic informed me that there is enough time for us to drive to the nearest town, 25…
Sep 15, 2009
A gift from the Heart… The Winnebago way
Winnebago is a small village of american Indians along the river in the North Eastern corner of the State of Nebraska in the middle of the USA. I have been…
Sep 15, 2009
Sorry, I want to say to the Japanese Lady, in Marais, Paris
Corruption of Morality to other Human Beings Last night, around Midnight, was walking along Marais, a Hip neighbourhood of France, after a very satisfying dinner at Breizh Café, a Breton…
Sep 15, 2009
My Macondo, Mi Pueblocito Querido, BARACOA
Just few of the thousands of images of my life in Baracoa, Cuba: full of magic and mystery and sensuality and satisfaction, intellectual stimulation and divine friendships.. Yes A True…
Aug 15, 2009
Ah…Some Changes has to Occur
CUBA | MEDICINE Cuban cancer drug undergoes rare U.S. trial An `exciting' cancer drug developed in Cuba is being tested in the United States -- but it won't be sold…
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
Baracoa Mi Pueblocito Querido.. como Extrano!
Above Mari 1 in 2003. TEARS OF JOY FOR MY LITTLE TOWN, BARACOA IN CUBA Mi querido Sudha, quiero que sepas que aunque no te escribo mucho, porque se me…
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…
Aug 15, 2009
Parsimonious Purveyors of Your Pantry
Priests of the New Nutritionism: An American Tragedy Since when do we need these self appointed guardians of packaged food to supervise our eating? My Lunch today chicken kebab. salad.…
Jul 15, 2009
The Third Day of the Hocank Pow Wow July 26th 2009
The third day of the 143rd annual HomeComing Celebrations of the HoCank tribe coincided with the 56th anniversary of the Begining of the Cuban Revolution in 1953. It felt good..to…
Jul 15, 2009
The SweatLodge prayers for Little Froggie, MM, my sisters and loved ones..
The phone rang as soon as I entered the Blue House at the Reservation. Hey Doctor, we are going into the Sweat in about half an hour, would like you…
Jul 15, 2009
Last Saturday in Havana and this Saturday…
I am at the Quiberon peninsula, which may have been an island once upon a time but lying across from off shore islands inBrittany, this is a quiet place, to…
Jul 15, 2009
Happy Birthday America and Shabbat Shalom
I have made so many good friends who now live or have lived in the United States of America..some are forgotten and others remain close to my heart as the…
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…