May 15, 2021
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI … WHERE SHALL I GO ?
These are the countries which are close to my heart and in each one of them there are conflicts of one sort of another: all politicized, whether it is the…
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, 2021
TO STOP THIS DECLINE OF THE UNITED STATES, MORE PEOPLE HAVE TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED, COME FROM BEHIND ON SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS.: MICROCHIPS AND VACCINATIONS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/semiconductor-chip-shortage-60-minutes-2021-05-02/ 25 companies around the world made semi conductor chips before Covid 19. USA used to make 37% of the all the world's supply but now only 12 %. Intel…
Apr 15, 2021
OVER DIAGNOSIS AMONG AMERICAN HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS.. WHERE DID IT ORIGINATE ?
I am familiar with the health care systems in many parts of the world. The best, in my opinion, has been the one in FRANCE and the most chaotic is…
Apr 15, 2021
CUBAN SOLIDARITY, NORTH AMERICAN FRAGILITY AND JALALUDDIN RUMI ..
While at the beginning of the Pandemic in 2020 and the various types of isolation that were to follow, many people, including me, welcomed the isolation and lack of intrusion…
Apr 15, 2021
MARVELS OF TECHNOLOGY: THE FUTURE WHERE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEETS HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
This morning I received a message from an artist friend of mine from Teheran. and included was a song "I really love this song. I cant understand the meaning of…
Mar 15, 2021
CELEBRATION OF PESACH DURING COVID
We are a people of very long memory. We were slaves in Egypt in the 13th Century BCE. 3300 years ago. Jews/Israelites as slaves to the Pharoah of Egypt. Painting…
Mar 15, 2021
IKIGAI THE JAPANESE CONCEPT IN THE MODERN WORLD
When I began my journeys in the Americas, I was impressed with the wealth of literature available. At that time, I did not speak Spanish or Portugues, thus my world…
Mar 15, 2021
DOES BLOOD SUGAR GO UP AFTER EACH MEAL ? NOT NECESSARILY, DEPENDS UPON THE QUALITY OF FOOD AND PERHAPS THE MICROBIOME
While we were reading Medicine at the University, we are taught about the glucose excursions after a meal, in such a fashion. A powerpoint goes up and the teacher explains:…
Mar 15, 2021
THE MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC OVER THE CENTURIES AND THEIR APPARENT ORIGINS IN SOUND
My Mizrachi (Iraqi mother, Egyptian father, brought up in Kobe) brother and I used to travel and we had, among many other things, the love for the music of the…
Feb 15, 2021
QUEEN ESTHER OF IRAN AND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH002593515/NLI?_gl=1*e980uo*_ga*MTkxMTgzODc3LjE2MTM5ODY2NDM.*_ga_8P5PPG5E6Z*MTYxMzk4NjY0MS4xLjEuMTYxMzk4NzU5OC40OA..&_ga=2.221434904.1839173943.1613986646-191183877.1613986643#$FL160821220 The remembrance, the festival of PURIM is upon us. to me, the age old connection betw
Feb 15, 2021
THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL: COVID 19 INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE FALLING ALL OVER THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD IN THE AMERICAS
TODAY IS FEBRUARY 21, 2021 There has been a Dramatic drop in the number of cases of Covid 19 infections being diagnosed in the USA. Medical Scientists would give one…
Feb 15, 2021
I HAVE RECEIVED MY VACCINE.. SO THAT MY PATIENTS ARE SAFE..
I work for a special community and they were prioritized to receive vaccines for all the Health Care workers as well as all the members of the community. The Health…
Feb 15, 2021
BESAME MUCHO. THE ETERNAL BLISSFUL SONG… THE MOST POPULAR MEXICAN SONG EVER RECORDED.. EVEN THOUGH CUBANS CLAIM IT .. FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS
BESAME MUCHO CONSUELO VELASQUEZ. MEXICO 1940 This has to be one of the most popular Latin American Song ever written, recorded by numerous people over the course of decades. Bésame,…
Jan 15, 2021
NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FELT THIS IMPOTENT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
It was March 18, 2020 and I had packed my bags and ready to go to the airport to leave the USA. My sister and her husband begged me to…
Jan 15, 2021
DID YOU KNOW THAT BREAKFAST IS THE IMPORTANT MEAL WAS COINED BY A BACON COMPANY? IN THE USA
NEW YORK TIMES like BBC has interesting tidbits and well annotated social accounts very seldom found in more popular commercial news media. Who propagated the idea that Breakfast is the…
Jan 15, 2021
WHAT CAN WE DO NOW? NOW THAT 2021 IS UPON US AND STILL A FEW MONTHS TO GO BEFORE NORMALCY? RETURNS
WHAT CAN WE DO NOW ? By the middle of January 2021, I would have completed the course of vaccination against Covid 19 Apart from Israel, no other country would…
Jan 15, 2021
WORDS SOMETIMES CAN DAMAGE PRECIOUS THINGS
HOW PRECIOUS THINGS ARE DAMAGED BY MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS Words are the greatest source of misunderstanding. And especially when one is reading in another language. I have never added a moral…
Nov 15, 2020
AN EXPERIMENT ON MYSELF: HOW MUCH DOES MY BLOOD SUGAR RISE ? RICE BAD FOR YOU? DOES IT MATTER WHO COOKS FOR YOU ? QUALITY OF FOOD?
Australia which gave us some excellent Nutritional leaders and pioneering research in Nutrition, lately has ben sending cut and paste articles on Nutrition on various websites. As Harari would say…