Aviad's blog

Dispersing the darkness - Bring the light ON!

Wed, 05/19/2010 - 14:46 — Aviad

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.

Kid-Safe Chemicals Act: 10 Americans

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 00:45 — Aviad

A must video!

Check out their website, they have awesome advices and ways to contribute: http://www.ewg.org/

Steep Ravine Trail Stinson Beach Trailhead

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 18:52 — Aviad

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...).

Support Haiti's helpers

Sun, 01/17/2010 - 19:41 — Aviad

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.

Winter Garden

Thu, 01/07/2010 - 00:31 — Aviad

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 bloggers like Compost Guy (who blogs on AltGlobe), I can say that I know now, after following up with his blog, some things about composting.

Celebrating life with friends

Mon, 11/09/2009 - 13:08 — Aviad

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.

Laughing yoga experience

Thu, 08/06/2009 - 10:14 — Aviad

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.

My first compost bin

Wed, 07/01/2009 - 18:21 — Aviad

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 currentlydoing 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 :-)

Celebrating Endless Love

Mon, 06/29/2009 - 14:38 — Aviad

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

Checking Campgrounds in California

Wed, 03/25/2009 - 23:49 — Aviad

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.