Aug 15, 2010
Where is Dr Aung Khant?
After this wonderful trip to KL and Myanmar, and a nice flight back to Paris from KL, I want to put down the days of love and affection and fearlessness…
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.
Aug 15, 2010
Good Bye.. to my favourite Part of Asia
""> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false A FAREWELL TO KL AND POINTS BEYOND… It is a strange sensation going to a country, knowing that…
Jul 15, 2010
Yet another Adios
Get Your Own Map View Larger Map Another lover of Cuba, the great Poet Pablo Neruda.. had written Se sabe que el que vuelve no se fue, y asi la…
Jul 15, 2010
LX 64 ZRH MIA AI 340-300 8 july 2010
Today waking up to a gorgeous morning here in Paris, I was overcome with the sweet sensation of SAUDADE.. That same sensation that I had known, even since I became…
Jun 15, 2010
I love visiting USA but the Food?
Comparing to the food on Sunday Lunch in Miami (pictures below) to the simple dinner on Monday Night in Paris (photos attached, ) makes me realize that the quality and…
Jun 15, 2010
La Casualidad no es tan Casual BY CHANCE?
Chance, Casualidad..we often wonder. . Does chance exist? or is it accidental and a fragment of ones imagination? We can always go to the Philosophers, the indigenous ones with thousands…
Jun 15, 2010
Miami, the future Capital of the Americas.. Champagne and Asian Fusion Food!
Filipino Chinese Chef, Peruvian Student from Lima, LAN Pan Asian Restaurant It is time to celebrate, dear friends! What ingredients do we need? Good News! Of course, lately we have…
Jun 15, 2010
Saturday Afternoon in South Miami
Visit to a Catholic Church to say Thanks.. American Indians always say that people pray and when they are rewarded, they forget to thank the people responsible for it. After…
Jun 15, 2010
CDG TO ZRH TO MIA 9 JUIN 2010
A fascination with new possibilitis shanghai.. no interest when you say that to me, despite the Expo. But mention Sao Paolo or Tokyo, my heart just jumps.. just to see…
Jun 15, 2010
Antiquities from the Kingdom of Gandhara
Gandhara was a kingdom which flourished from the 1st to the 6th centuries of the common era near the present day Peshawar (sanskrit name Purushapura mentioned in the chinese chronicles…
May 15, 2010
MAYA ST CYR daughter of my friends you make us all proud
Maya St Cyr HoCank/Umonhon Indian 17 years old was among the 100 graduates who received their diplomas recently at the Boys Town School in Omaha, Her inspiring story was featured…
May 15, 2010
The Magical Surrealism of being with INDIOS, the natives of America
I am virtually in the middle of nowhere and it would be difficult for someone does not understand the silence of space, or if you live in a country where…
May 15, 2010
Memories of a Collective Past.. weekend in Normandie
We who are from the New World, with an easy going lifestyle and an outward friendliness, find ourselves so comfortable in other new world countries.. for e,g., I am an…
May 15, 2010
ETADAKIMASAI… looking to eat japanese food in paris
Since arriving in Paris from Cuba a few days ago, I have been discovering Paris using the Bus System, I have nearly mastered the major routes. Yesterday, I wanted to…
May 15, 2010
One Week of ETHNIC eating in Paris
It is a pleasure to contemplate about eating in Paris. The choices are so great that one has the pleasure of thinking about it and choosing. There is no anxiety…
Apr 15, 2010
The Indus Valley Civilization
The Archeological ruins of Moenjodaro located on the right bank of the Indus River, around 400 kilometers north of Karachi, in Pakistan's Sindh Province, bears witness to one of the…
Mar 15, 2010
Tristes Tropiques.. 30 Hours in Miami Part B
I sat with my sister for hours, chatting and catching up on common news. Since her treatment began in July 2009, I have tried to be here at appropriate moments…
Feb 15, 2010
Come Snow or Long Layovers at Airports, Los Indios! here I am
A few weeks away from the Indians (native people of the Americas), I begin to feel their physical absence. Fortunately, I have a reason to go back to see them,…