Apr 15, 2019
World is angry and stressed, Gallup report says . from the BBC
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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.
Apr 15, 2019
HAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY TO MY LATEST PASSPORT .. TIME TO RENEW
I began travelling alone earlier in life than most people. I had always had the travel sensation imbedded in my heart even when I was in school. I began travelling…
Apr 15, 2019
DINING EXPERIENCE WITH REFUGEES…. IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
As a traveller I am looking for different experiences in countries that i visit and also looking for technology APPS to make it easier. Malaysia is a country close to…
Apr 15, 2019
VITAMIN AND MINERALS SUPPLEMENTED TAKEN INDISCRIMINATELY MAY HARM YOU
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Apr 15, 2019
PAIN IS INEVITABLE, SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or…
Apr 15, 2019
APRIL IN MIAMI . FRIENDS WORK NATURE FOOD . PROPORTIONATELY
My american indian teachers taught me that you should spend only 25 % of your time at WORK again in the USA . WORK is definited so characteristically commercially: You…
Mar 15, 2019
ET TU, FRANCE…FASCISTS ISLAMISTS AND ANTISEMITISM
WHEN A BLACK RAPPER AND A FASCIST SHARE A TABLE TO DENOUNCE THE JEWS AS WELL AS THE ISLAMISTS HIJACKING POPULAR PROTEST THE YELLOW VESTS...ANTI SEMITISM IS WELL AND ALIVE…
Mar 15, 2019
QATAR AIRWAYS IS THE BEST AIRLINE IN THE WORLD . PARIS TO DOHA
QATAR AIRWAYS Paris CDG Terminal 1 Thanks to agents Nachette and Belinda Lounge access before boarding. Leaving France For the next six hours, cared for by QR staff while pondering…
Mar 15, 2019
DOUBLE TREE KUALA LUMPUR . WHAT A LOVELY PLACE TO COME HOME TO ..
It seems an apt commentary of a lifestyle of a traveller that you become familiar with ambiance attached to transient places in your life: in this case the Executive Lounge…
Mar 15, 2019
SIEM REAP DESPITE ITS GROTESQUE GROWTH WILL REMAIN A VILLAGE IN MY MEMORIES
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2019/03/siem-reap-despite-its-grotesque-growth.html
Mar 15, 2019
KERALA FOLLOWS ME AROUND… LATELY MEETING SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS IN MY TRAVELS
Kerala follows me around ...? I do not travel to INDIA but paradoxically enough once every two months, Manolo the driver from Bristows Bungalow, the only hotel facing the ocean…
Mar 15, 2019
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM RANGOON./YANGON
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM RANGOON/YANGON, BURMA/MYANMAR My burmese name is Aung Khant and my father would have called this city where I am now Rangoon and the country with which he…
Mar 15, 2019
LOOKING FOR CHE IN RANGOON AUNG KYAW KYAW THE PAINTER
Walking around like I did this morning to the amazing cultural amalgam of anawrahta street, aptly named india town but you can find genes from all over the world, mingling…
Mar 15, 2019
PABLO NERUDA AND RANGOON … E MEU SAUDADE PRA MINHA JOSIE BLISS
Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize winning poet of Chile but celebrated throughout Latin America, was already famous in his country, at an young age. As was customary, he was rewarded…
Mar 15, 2019
THE TOLERANT MULTICULTURALISM OF YANGON MYANMAR
Rangoon 2019 Pablo Neruda was posted as Chilean Consul to Burma in 1927 Neruda wrote evocatively of Myanmar’s bustling, multiethnic colonial capital: “The street became my religion. The Burmese street,…
Mar 15, 2019
A MESSAGE ARRIVED FROM MY UMONHON INDIAN BROTHER
and gratefully received I am in Rangoon/Yangon; Birmanie/Myanmar.. here is his message Good morning brother! Off to work this morning and the sunrise is a beautiful purple and pink color.…
Mar 15, 2019
A TRADITIONAL MYANMAR MEAL.. ENJOYED IN THE COMPANY OF MY BURMESE FRIENDS
During my three day stay here in Yangon, I had been offered all sorts of Asian meals. I enjoy Asian food, particularly if they have a local twist to it.…
Mar 15, 2019
THE MAGNIFICENT SCHWEDAGON PAGODA OF YANGON IN MYANMAR
If you visited just one site in all of Myanmar, it has to be the magnificent Shwedagon Pagoda. Each visit reveals something else of the mystery of this ancient and…