Apr 15, 2022
THE BARBER OF MIAMI
I had just arrived in Miami after a long trip from Cochin in Kerala India via Singapore and the long non stop flight from Singapore to New York and then…
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, 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…
Mar 15, 2022
KINGSTON, JAMAICA AND MADRAS INDIA ..WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON? THE HENRIQUES FAMILY
I have visited the teeming city of Madras (now called Chennai) on many occasions and had the pleasure of living in Kingston, Jamaica for a short while. While searching for…
Mar 15, 2022
WHAT ALL HAPPENS IN THE COURSE OF A DAY…AN UNUSUAL DAY IN AN UNUSUAL LIFE .. HUMILITY, GRATITUDE AND COMPASSION, SAY THE INDIGENOUS WISDOM
it has been an extraordinary day of euphoria: doing exactly what you want to do with your body, thoughts and mind. It began with a poem arriving from a friend…
Mar 15, 2022
ON THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, SPECIAL THOUGHTS FOR UKRAINE AND JE SUIS AUSSI UKRANIEN
It is a Friday night and as the sun was setting I got the table set to welcome Shabbat and joyously shout. Shabbat Shalom to all those who would hear…
Mar 15, 2022
I DONT CARE FOR TRAVEL LISTS BUT WHEN VARADERO BEACH IS ON IT, I CAN POUND MY CHEST
Top 10 Beaches in the World for 2022 Grace Bay Beach – Grace Bay , Turks and Caicos Varadero Beach – Varadero, Cuba Turquoise Bay – Exmouth, Australia Quarta Praia…
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…
Feb 15, 2022
AN INTERIM REPORT ON COVID TESTING IN SOME COUNTRIES so far nothing can hold a candle to LA PRADERA INTERNATIONAL CLINIC IN HAVANA CUBA .
After 18 months of corporal punishment in Miami during Covid 19 isolation (gaining 4 kg in weight and a bloated belly and intellectual decay), I decided to travel despite restrictions.…
Feb 15, 2022
A FRANGRANT ROSE AND ITS SPINE: LITTLE PRINCE AND HIS ROSE. A METAPHOR FOR MY LOVE FOR CUBA
I found this in the Net, and I will quote it fully including the quotes by Antoine Saint Exupery the author of The Little Prince. The Little Prince and The…
Feb 15, 2022
A LOVELY LUNCH: IT IS WITH THE HEART ONE SEES. ONE CAN LEARN TO SEE THE HEART WITH THE EYES
Things happen for a reason, say the American Indians. I find myself in La Habana, amidst the chaos of thousands of cuban emigrants arriving from Miami with their demeanour vastly…
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…
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
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST AT WORK: NATIONAL PARK
If you wish to lead an unconventional life, you have to plan to undertake unconventional path to your life including your family life, your career and your places of residence,…
Feb 15, 2022
AFTER A DAY IN THE PARK TAKING CARE OF ITS INDIGENOUS POPULATION, 30 MINUTES OF VIPASSANA AND ITS EFFECT ON THE BLOOD PRESSURE
When it is 10 pm in Miami, it is 6 30 am in Tehran and the city is waking up A friend of mine from there joins me in 30…
Feb 15, 2022
SHABBAT SHALOM ON THIS DAY WITH HEARTFELT THOUGHTS ABOUT UKRAINE AND ITS POPULATION
The sun was about to set on this Friday evening in Miami. What is like for people of Kyiv, Kharkhiv and Lviv and throughout the length and breadth of Ukraine?…
Feb 15, 2022
MOVEABLE FEAST OR A FEAST THAT MOVES? PARIS HAVANA AND CAMBODIA
Once you are Paris for a while, you begin to understand what Ernest Hemingway meant by MOVEABLE FEAST Many of the places described in this book still stand and I…
Feb 15, 2022
A SONG FROM UKRAINE, INSPIRING AGAINST THE INVADERS
I have been much absorbed by the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine. The silver lining is the resilience of the people, their optimism, their undiluted patriotism and the moral strength of…
Feb 15, 2022
WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
The 1942 movie CASABLANCA which was entirely filmed in studios in Los Angeles became a cult movie and to this day continues to be considered a special movie. I remember…