Dec 15, 2012
THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL TIME
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL TIME The greatest gift that I can give to my friends is TIME. That is why I…
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.
Dec 15, 2012
INDONESIANS IN PARIS
I am used to meeting visitors in various parts of the world, but today was an unique experience for me in that I was waiting for a group of Indonesians…
Dec 15, 2012
HOLLOW BONE AND CREATION : THE AMERICAN INDIAN BELIEF
"From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things: the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds,…
Dec 15, 2012
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN PARIS OF JAWA: BANDOENG
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN PARIS OF JAWA AND MEMORIES OF THE MAGIC OF BANDOENG On a good day, without the perennial traffic jams…
Dec 15, 2012
THE PREVENTION OF DIABETES, HYPERTENSION AND OBESITY IN INDONESIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE PREVENTION OF DIABETES, HYPERTENSION AND OBESITY IN INDONESIA: THE SENTUL HEALTHY HAPPY LIVING Indonesia shares two major characteristics with its neighbours…
Dec 15, 2012
PEER TO PEER EDUCATION IN DIABETES: MOPOTSYO OF CAMBODIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE In Praise of Peer to Peer Education Network in Cambodia and its director Maurits van Pelt ( on the third month of…
Dec 15, 2012
WHEREVER I AM, MY HEART IS ALWAYS IN CUBA FELIZ ANO 2013
During the course of a calendar year, I get to celebrate many NEW YEAR celebrations, either directly or indirectly: The most important for us at a personal level is the…
Nov 15, 2012
YOGIC PHILOSOPHY IN CECILIA MEIRELES POETRY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE YOGIC PHILOSOPHY IN THE POETRY OF CECILIA MEIRELES The Young poet of Cote Sauvage, one day said to me: The waves are…
Nov 15, 2012
HAVANA TO MIAMI: IN 39 MINUTES YOU CAN BE IN ANOTHER PLANET
AA 9471 HAV-MIA 39 Minutes 15 minutes after leaving Havana, our aircraft was already over the Marathon Bridge, by 30 minutes we had entered the Everglades National park, descending into…
Nov 15, 2012
A Morning in La Habana, Cuba: My Walk around my Neighbourhood
I have Pak Joe to thank for.. For the past three months, starting on August 3rd, I have tried to walk most of the mornings, except the days I am…
Nov 15, 2012
MALAYSIA IN CUBA, THANK YOU AMBASSADOR JOJIE SAMUEL
MALAYSIA IN CUBA I have been very lucky to meet some excellent people in Malaysia, the best among them being MCY whom I had met serendipitously in 2008. She introduced…
Nov 15, 2012
TRADITIONAL SOUP OF THE KIKAPU
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PUMPKIN SOUP WITH CHICKEN: A TRADITIONAL MEAL OF THE KIKAPU My Kikapu sister brings big sized squash from Mexico and with the…
Nov 15, 2012
JEWS AND OBAMA AND HIS RE ELECTION
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PROUD OF BEING JEWISH AFTER THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS One of the contradictions in American Politics is the way the Jews vote. In…
Nov 15, 2012
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: SPEND TIME WITH FRIENDS, IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR MIND, BODY AND SOUL
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INVEST IN FRIENDSHIPS, IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH Looking at the habits of healthy and happy people, all over the world,…
Nov 15, 2012
A DIPLOMAT GOES HOME TO CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A DIPLOMAT GOES HOME TO CUBA I was the first one to board the short AA flight to Havana in Miami. As…
Nov 15, 2012
POOR IN BRAZIL HAVE BETTER DIABETES CARE THAN THE RICH IN USA
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I have never been a great fan of “Guidelines” issued by Professional Medical Bodies, especially for Chronic Diseases where a substantial…
Oct 15, 2012
You Will Meet WAKONDA on the road..
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It was a crispy cold late afternoon, not that biting cold of the wind from the Antarctica but the caressing kind of…
Oct 15, 2012
2.10.12 PALINDROME MALAYALAM
If I had not any connections with Cochin in India, I might not have known early enough what a Palindrome was nor heard of the language of the region, Malayalam,…