Thursday, October 30, 2014

Tweet: It is not just about global warming. It is what's on http://ctt.ec/eM0aE+Just click the bird!

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Create Your Own Road Signs... Written by: Attila Farkas Your environment is what you look at, breathe in, touch, consume as food, drink as a form of a liquid, absorb in the form of radio or microwaves and other forms of natural or man-made energy. Everything around you is interacting with 37 trillion cells that make up your body. Your entire being is either nurtured or tortured by your surroundings and this is where the true meaning of living comes from. A living is an expression of your being and a reflection of your environment. If your environment is pure and supporting your basic needs, such as clean air, water, and food than that reflection are going to be a healthy biological entity. If your environment is saturated with trillions of man-made substances, that reflection is going to be distorted, damaging, and genetically unstable. Our natural environment is the result of millions of years of progression, creating an interdependent, complex web of life. This biological system has an all-encompassing intelligence that we can learn from, or it will teach us many painful lessons. The old business models had taught us that it is acceptable to ignore these lessons. The first rule of business is to generate profit. Profit is not associated with basic human needs and a healthy ecosystem. Profit is associated with anything that is shiny, has built-in computer chips, can be purchased in a store, or order online with a credit card. It doesn’t matter that during these interactions we humans produce enough toxins, visible and invisible pollutants and disruptors that they can clog up the intricate roadways that form the web of life. These roadways and channels were clean and life-supporting only a thousand years ago. We have to find ways to model healthy, natural interactions between humans and the environment and integrate this change into our modern society. Profit should be associated with the benefit of preserving the genetic building blocks of humanity and stop disintegrating it with the by-products of greed, ignorance and worshipping the artificial world. We have to provide our kids with the cleanest air, water, and natural food that is available. If you can do that, then you are doing something right. If acquiring these basic needs seem impossible then roll your sleeves up, because we have a lot of work and a long road ahead of us. The good news is that you can create your own road signs and put them up on your journey, so future generations can follow along with on your path. My question is: What is your first road sign? Thank you for traveling with me... www.enviroartist.com

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Friday, November 22, 2013

Drinking Buckley’s with a Smile on my Face.
Written by: Attila Farkas



I have decided to drink my portion of Buckley’s without making a face. My son, Peter was standing in front of me with a big smile on his face, ready to enjoy my misery after I drink down the liquid and turn my face into a fist. You are allowed to make any kind of facial expression when you drink liquid Buckley’s. It tastes awful and it shows. OK, the exact advertisement says: It tastes awful and it works. I've had the flu or the man-cold for two weeks now and I still haven’t missed a day of work. I am a computer instructor and I teach twelve adult ladies who are extremely satisfied with the progress we are making and I can’t disappoint them. I can’t take a day or two off and allow substitute instructors to take over my class and break the cycle of awesomeness. I am taking my vitamins, drinking hot tea with honey and Buckley’s from a shot-glass. My son is standing in front of me grinning from ear to ear because he has permission from Buckley’s to laugh in my face. I consider myself a tough guy. I have practiced Kyokushin karate for over a decade and developed a high tolerance for pain. He is thirteen and he used to ask me if I would cry if a mountain lion would bite me, or someone punched me in the face or stepped into broken glass, stabbed with a knife and other imaginary misfortunes. He just wants to know if it’s OK for a real man to cry from pain. My answer is always the same. No, I wouldn't cry. When you cry, you have tears in your eyes, they blur your vision and you lose the fight. I remember two recent episodes when I was tested by two accidents to see if I am a real tough guy or not and he witnessed both. The first one was in North Carolina on the first day of our family vacation. We were enjoying the shallow waters of the low tide behind our cottage that we rented for the week. Our kids were running after small fish in the knee deep water, I was looking for signs of clams that I wanted to collect for clam chowder. It was around noon when my wife yelled out with her outside voice letting us know that we should get inside for lunch. Everyone heard and we made our way in from the water when something unexpected happened...
As I was walking in the water and reached the wooden steps that lead up to the pier a crab has attacked my toes on my left leg. Just from pure reflex and without thinking I jumped away, right into a bed of dried-up oysters. They were sticking out from the bottom of the peaceful lagoon, like a dozen razor sharp knives. My right foot landed in the middle of them and bottom of my foot was stabbed in a half a dozen places. As I jumped away again I didn't even make a sound. I carefully hopped up on the wooden steps and examined my wounds. Blood was pouring out from several of the deepest wounds and yet I remained silent. I had washed out the wounds in the ocean water, and then carefully hopped into the house; put a large band-aid on it and a few hours later went fishing from shore.
The second time I demonstrated how to handle pain was during pike fishing when a spinner bait treble hook got stuck in my leg and I was able to rip it out without any damage to my leg and also without a sound. In my son’s eyes I had proved to be a tough guy and yet drinking a dose of Buckley’s gives me the shivers, makes my face into a cartoon of Grinch and start moving like a two-year-old just before a full blown hissy fit. It was time to show off again. As I drank the next dose of Buckley’s I decided to play a joke on my son. I was not sure if I am going to able to pull it off but it was worth a try. As soon as I drank it, I started smiling and said that it tastes really good now; maybe it changes after a couple of days.
“Really?” Peter has asked with wide eyes. He kept checking my face for any sign of trauma. I kept smiling and was really proud of my new invention.
“It really doesn't taste that bad anymore?” he asked again, probing for any revealing signs of conflict in body language.
“No it tastes the same,” I said.
“Then how come you are not shaking and dancing and making faces. You are smiling.” He observed.
“I decided,” I said and the newest lesson was over. I hope he’ll remember it when he needs to...

Just in case you are wondering, I am not sponsored by Buckley’s. Not yet.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

salmon fishing in Canada

http://www.youtube.com/v/271KCsYUkJM?version=3&autohide=1&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=8fGGkKOJj35SangFPC-sqw&autohide=1&showinfo=1&feature=share

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Lake Simcoe double header perch and bass

http://www.youtube.com/v/mvLrFC0Da7g?version=3&autohide=1&feature=share&autohide=1&showinfo=1&attribution_tag=tzb0F2GRqN2pe5sWFlj5WA&autoplay=1

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Are you clean and civilized or dirty and not sanitized?

Written by: Attila Farkas

Fishing, blogging, tweeting, texting and your FaceBook status.
You can’t text the fish about the bait you are about to use. What to do, what to do??? You have to put your phone in your pocket and use your fingers for something that you are not accustomed to doing. You have to put the worm on the hook yourself and wipe off your fingers before you pick up your phone to take a picture of the worm and post it on FaceBook as your status. If you tweet about the event you will scare your worm and cause unnecessary stress; worms don’t like birds. The whole thing seems barbaric and dirty. Why can’t someone invent a worm with a built-in hook? I am sure that genetic engineers are working on the problem. When was the last time you touched organic soil with your fingers during gardening and felt good about it? What??? Getting dirty?
Your ancestors have worked the land with their bare hands and through the soil, their skin absorbed trace elements that can help the immune system fight disease, help your endocrine system function efficiently and these same trace elements can also improve your overall health. Some of them are available only through interaction with organic soil and this is when your problem comes in...
You get up in the morning and get into your shower(box), after you are done get something out from your fridge for breakfast(box), maybe some cereal(box), pick up your phone to check your emails(box), turn the TV on to check the news(box), get into your car to get to work(box), maybe take the train(box), once you get to your building take the elevator(box), open the door to your office(box), sit down to your computer(box), start working and wonder why you are stressed out...

Please do something for yourself that does not include a box.

Happy gardening and fishing!
Cheers,

Attila

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Our best salmon fishing video to date: