I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #592 - Living on the Edge, and Brewing Excitement - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, March 11, 2024

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 5 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I feel so much excitement this morning that it's a bit of a challenge to even know where to begin talking about it. Before I make an attempt at that, however, I want to mention the hair-raising Hive experience that I had yesterday. It was around 1:45PM, very close to the 2PM cut-off point where Hive's UTC time changes from one day to the next, and when I went to publish my post via PeakD on my phone, I got a 'network error'. Concerned, especially because I was so close to 2PM, I tried publishing via PeakD on my laptop, and I received the same error (they were on different networks). Growing more concerned, I copied my post to both PeakD Beta and Ecency, on both my phone and my computer, and I kept getting the same error until it finally successfully posted via Ecency on my laptop, with about 5 minutes to spare. When I went to check the post on my profile (Blog and All Posts), I was horrified to see that my post published 3 times. So two of those error messages that I received were not accurate. Doh. I deleted one of the posts before anyone commented or voted on it, but people are fast, as I received both votes and comments on one of the duplicate posts. It was for that reason that I didn't delete it. In my almost 2.5 years on Hive, this has never happened, and I seriously hope that it doesn't happen again. I came within minutes of failing to continue with my over two-year daily posting streak. Whew!

Now on to the topics that I wanted to discuss today, excitement and living on the edge! So in healing my broken heart, I am coming alive again, but this jungle community where I live is also coming back to life, too, with many more people here, and many more diverse community activities and events being planned and shared, in which I have also begun to participate more. This morning in the Landing, as I prepared my superfood fire coffee, I shared a very exciting, inspiring, and motivating conversation with Neva on the power of exploring, experimenting, and tinkering, and creating safe space for ourselves and others to be able to do so easefully. In pretty much any context, the magic sweet spot of maximum learning, healing, and growth, for ourselves, as well as the container to hold for others, is right at the edge, or slightly beyond, our comfort zones, where we can say, 'yes, I'm uncomfortable, but I feel safe, and I'm OK'.

In our conversation we shared our personal experiences with this idea, and excitement at its potential in stimulation growth and development, both individually and collectively, in our jungle community. I shared several experiences that I had with leading groups of people through various exercises that gently challenged them, and the seeming magic and miracles that often arose from this practice. We also shared many possible ideas for community workshop or practice events, that one or other of us had found potent and useful, as well as bubbling excitement about the idea of possibly collaborating and holding events and workshops like that here on a regular basis. Possibilities such as naked yoga and integral practices, tribal resonance workshops (to help nurture trust, connection, and intimacy between individuals and the group), naked body-painting parties (my favorite birthday parties by far were those), group body-energy-tantric work events, among others were brought up and discussed, with both of us feeling, again, deeply excited for what we could create and bring to this jungle community. We will very likely be collaborating at some point soon to ground these ideas into future community events. Yahooey!

This concept of living, working, and playing, at the edge is one that has always been of paramount significance to me because, as I've expresed here many times, I'm an in-betweener, a bridger and uniter of worlds, who has lived on the edge of pretty much everything, across all domains, all my life. The edge is a very powerful and magical place, one where worlds are born, and lives are transformed. As I've lived, explored, experimented, and tinkered at the edge of what I know, I've learned and grown in ways that I can barely describe. This is how I know how to do so many things, and well, across so many different and diverse realms and domains, and also why I choose to live where and how I do. Yes, the in-between places are exceedingly exciting points of creation, that bring us most alive, at the very leading edge of our life energy's thrust into the unknown, birthing whole new worlds as we go.

It's been rainy and densely cloudy for three days now, with actual sun only poking through a bit today, which does not make for very inspiring land work or photography. Yesterday, being Monday, had two long meetings for me to attend, the Leadership Council meeting from 10:30AM to 12:30PM, and the even-longer logistics meeting from 6:30PM to 9PM. As such, and with the rain, I didn't do any land work, or take photos for that matter. I strained out kefir for my kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao blend, I got in communication with Marty, the fellow who manages our internet connection, to resolve an issue with installing a new SIM card in our mobile-network router, and I made another batch of my spicy seasoned popcorn for people in the logistics meeting, as well as some food for myself, before the meeting started.

After the longer-than-usual Logistics meeting, I went back to the Flow House with Eyeza, to sit down and talk with her about the details of the container and framework of her session on Wednesday, sharing some organic tobacco mixed with peppermint as we talked. After she left around 10PM, I focused on catching up on my Hive notifications. Since I started so late, and I had quite a lot, I was only able to get to within 14 hours of being fully caught up. I did a quick round of token management, then I went to bed finally, later than hoped, around 1AM. While I did get some sleep, it wasn't enough, again, and I still felt a bit tired in the morning. I started another round of token management around 7:30AM, then I got out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, which is when I got into the above-mentioned conversation with Neva.

It's now close to 12PM, so it's a marvelous time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, before preparing for my session with Souzi, which is scheduled for 1PM. I deeply appreciate you all so very much! Until tomorrow! Forward, onward, and upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart and embody a solid, healthy masculine. 

2.) Bring myself and my life back into balance, integration, and wholeness. 

3.) Do regular integral practices again. 

4.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again. 

5.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again. 

6.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon. 

7.) Get regular deep, integral energy-body-tantric work healing sessions with women flowing again.

8.) Live as an integral part of a juicy heart-resonant soul tribe community, with deep, coherent, mutual and shared passion, purpose, mission, love, warmth, care, sweetness, reverence, respect, aliveness, admiration, excitement, joy, playfulness, work, attraction, all-level connections, and relationships. 

9.) Make love with the women that I love every day.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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