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2 weeks 2 days ago
A hike in Northern California in the middle of the winter sounds very challenging and not really appealing... Guess what? That was an awesome forest-rain (cold) hike! I decided only on the same morning to join the girls (and Zeta) to this trip. Something attracted me to be outdoors (probably the fact that I haven't seen any mountain foothill covered with shiny green plants for ages...).
7 weeks 4 days ago
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit what might be the poorest place in the world. The devestation is beyond imagination and the death toll is increasing every day due to poor structure in the country of Haiti. A lot of people, countries and organizations are doing their best to aid and support. Like in any other disaster, whether we hear about it or not, there are good people's life on the edge, which CAN be saved. Just thinking about being able to help makes me feel good for a moment. Stories of delegations rescuing people from the ruins and videos of survivors give a bit of hope for the one who...
9 weeks 1 day ago
After enjoying the previous season's vegetables, I decided to plant some winter ones. This Saturday Cristele, my dear wife, went and bought few dozens of small winter plants and I planted them with my nephew in our roof garden, in a nightly operation.  It makes me feel good to work in my garden. It's kind of meditation for me, my time to get out of the house (10 seconds walk), leave the computer and grow stuff.  This season I got some good fertilizing materials from the compost bin and quality concentrated liquid. It is not an easy thing to start with composting your food, but with great...
11 weeks 3 days ago
Every year at this time I am really overwhelmed by the cultural richness here in the Bay Area. Within this richness I see a common thread of behavior derived from our unbreakable relation to the nature. But, how amazing it is to see (after delving just a bit into our history) that our own truth has a sister, brother and actually, entire families and peoples. We are all (whether aware of it or not) celebrating the light in the darkness and we all have specific customs how to disperse this lack of colors (and warmth), called darkness. I love Hanuka! and I love the idea of lighting up the...
17 weeks 3 days ago
What an amazing evening!!! Thank you for all of you who came and spread your best most positive energies. It is always a fun thing to be among people who direct their intentions on having fun and celebrating life. Celebration is our way to output our inner positive state in its most potency. As we saw this evening (and others), everyone has something to celebrate in their lives. With all this positiveness I would not have a choice but keep on bringing people together to practice this life celebration.
31 weeks 18 hours ago
The last One event was focused on the amazing and have to say funny, workshop we had lead by Ananda Wildflower. I have been hearing about Laughter Yoga for so long and was expecting for it to be similar to other workshops I experienced in my life to release stuck energies and open up your heart. Though this workshop was different in some ways. At first I was a bit shy with the fact that I will be laughing without anything funny to trigger the laugh, but standing, laying and sitting forcing yourself to laugh brought, eventually, a burst wave of laughter and feeling of elevation which I did...
36 weeks 1 day ago
Today I went to buy red worms for our compost bin.  One bag of 1,000 worms cost me nearly 30 bucks. The worms seem to be nice, though pretty shy...  I unpacked them into the ready-in-advance soil and of they went into a warm, dark and moisten world, the underground. I was told that red worms do not like bread, so I am currently doing a small test with the worms and feeding them few different types of vegetables and of course, a piece of bread.  As you can see from the pictures, it's a race against time (in worm terms). Enjoy the pictures :-)
36 weeks 3 days ago
This is a song I wrote about seeing your life as a celebration. It has a tune too and the guitar chords are shown on the right side of the text. Celebrating endless love Am Dm Is like drinking E  your favorite drink Am <!--break-->   Put your little hand in mine Am Dm and I will show you E  a beautiful trick Am   Celebrate your birthday twice Am F with friends & family E Am   Celebrate your  gift and joy Am F a complete body and soul    It's all in your head  C G (she said) the answer is easy  C D if you choose  C G to go...
50 weeks 1 day ago
What an exciting day!  I had the privilege to be the one to check out the campgrounds before our upcoming retreat.   The Willow Creek Rd campground is very dark, which is also very close to where the Russian River crosses Hwy 1.  This campground is inside the woods.  That said, there is a gorgeous stream running from the top of the mountain down the creek (Willow Creek) which is worth a visit.  From the campground I went north to the area of Bodega Bay and the Russian River, which was also very nice.  You can find images from the campsites there in the...
1 year 11 weeks ago
The holidays of light  "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." “The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.”  Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, chapter1. This is a very simple statement written by king Solomon, though extremely important to its era since the general perception back then and before, in the Pagan era, was completely different. <!--break--> The ancient people were mainly scared of the possibility that the sun will go down and will never come back again after disappearing below the southern horizon. They were so...