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…
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, 2016
WELCOME HOME AT THE UMONHON NATION: SHABBAT SHALOM FROM THE INDIAN COUNTRY
I am proud to be a Consultant Endocrinologist to the UmonHon Nation in the USA. Dutifully I appear at the appointed dates, as previously arranged with the Health Programme that…
Oct 15, 2016
THE TEDIOUS ITINERARY OF A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO THE INDIANS
The tedious itinerary of a Physician Anthropologist Most of you will have absolutely no interest in this itinerary, I am putting this down on paper because I am so confused,…
Oct 15, 2016
EAT TO MAKE YOUR DNA HAPPY: ANOTHER INNOVATION FROM DR GORDON BRUCE WALLACE OF WANTIRNA SOUTH IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
COOK FOR YOUR DNA My good friend Gordon with his wife recently visited La Habana, my current home. We had known each other since our days as Junior Doctors at…
Sep 15, 2016
A TOUR GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO HAVANA, CUBA
Gordon and Gaye, two friends from Melbourne wanted to add La Habana to their itinerary of a tour to South America. We had been friends for a long time, having…
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
MINDFULNESS VS MINDLESSNESS IN MASS TOURISM
MINDFULNESS VS MINDLESSNESS IN TOURISM Two tourist spots and two different forms of extraction of your dollar. At the end of the day we are just dollar signs to the…
Jun 15, 2016
HAPPINESS OF BEING IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
I am at the Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, at the Lounge at 34th floor, looking at the setting sun colouring the city being slowly lit up underneath me.…
May 15, 2016
2 NDNZ AND A CUBANO IN MALAYSIA DAY 1
ABB is a Nurse Educator and Administator with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, is seen here with her husband MBB, who is an Emergency Medical Technician who would join the…
May 15, 2016
JE SUIS UMONHON: I am an Omaha. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ADOPTED INTO OMAHA TRIBE
I have had a long association with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. In fact when I go there on my monthly visits, I live in a house within the reservation.…
May 15, 2016
WELCOME TO FORT COCHIN: YOU HAVE INHERITED A LONG HISTORY OF WELCOME TO VOYAGERS
Arrival in Fort Cochin For a country that prides itself in IT, the public offering of IT is very poor, much poorer than a country like Cambodia. An international airport…
May 15, 2016
ONE REFUGEE TO ANOTHER.. ON THIS HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF SYKES-PICOT MAP
ONE REFUGEE TO ANOTHER... AN EYE OPENER IN HISTORY OR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF SYKES-PICOT MAP I am a Jew, and firmly rooted in the Middle East, not only the history…
May 15, 2016
MEDICAL WISDOM FROM CUBA: AN EGALITARIAN APPROACH TO WHAT IS GOOD FOR SOCIETY
MEDICAL WISDOM FROM CUBA: AN EGALITARIAN APPROACH TO WHAT IS GOOD FOR SOCIETY The other day I was having lunch with the Senior Professor of Endocrinology and a Consultant Psychologist…
Apr 15, 2016
Ambiguity Sadhguru And My Travel Plans
AMBIGUITY, SADHGURU AND MY TRAVEL PLANS FOR THE NEXT 8 WEEKS When I woke up this morning, my good friend MC from KL had sent a discourse about Planning your…
Mar 15, 2016
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN MALACCA: LE YIN AND AMIN
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN MALACCA: LE YIN AND AMIN I have been a frequent visitor to Malacca, the historic town in the peninsular Malaysia which has a parallel history to Fort…
Feb 15, 2016
MICROBIOME TELLS YOU WHAT YOU ARE AND EAT ACCORDINGLY
Microbiome as a word had not been coined, when I became aware of something mysterious in the workings of our food and body. Being a student at that time, my…
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…
Jan 15, 2016
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 FROM THE WILD COAST OF QUIBERON IN BRITTANY, FRANCE
Walking along the windswept coast of this village which has become a tourist destination for the French, I couldnt but think of the poems of Pablo Neruda who had described…