I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #730 - Two Years of These Posts Today! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, July 27, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Today, July 28, is the two-year anniversary of the beginning of these daily posts, My Life Just Hit a Brick Wall at High Velocity, on the Cusp of My 50th Birthday: Mid Life Crisis 101 💔, that I initiated as a way to express and process my pain and grief after the breakup with my last girlfriend, Kai. Two years. I can't believe that the time has gone so quickly. These posts, which since there inception have mirrored the changes and shifts in myself and my life, transformed into my Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry posts upon my return to the jungle at GaiaYoga Gardens on October 11, 2022.

In the two years that I've been writing them, I've discussed a wide range of topics of interest to me, as well as using them just like a daily diary or journal, to express my thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Some days I've had a great deal to say, while on other days I've been challenged to say anything at all, though I've always written and published something each and every day. My hope is that those reading these daily posts have received something of value for their time and attention.

I love that I can write about anything I want in them, which varies quite a lot day to day, while at the same time maintaining a consistent, regular, and reliable daily format that is my very recognizable style or 'brand'. It was at the end of my relationship with Kai, and the beginning of these posts, that marked the actual start my absolute commitment, dedication, and tenacious determination, for Hive and my growth here, consistently every single day. I've said that all the love and dedication that I had for Kai was transferred to Hive at that time, and it remains true to this day.

As sad as it is to say, Kai was the last close, intimate relationship that I've had with a woman. For most of the past two years, I've been pretty solidly convinced that she represented my last intimate dance with women at all. Only in the past month or so have I felt a shift within myself that makes me think that my broken heart is finally healing, and that there may indeed be other, perhaps even deeper and more fulfilling relationships, to come. I feel open to that now. Yesterday, very curiously, interestingly, and unexpectedly, I connected and shared many lovely and sweet hours of conversation and laugher with Lizzie, a woman that moved to GaiaYoga Gardens more than two months ago, and with whom I've shared basically zero connection at all during the whole time she's been here. I also did a little energy/body work on her neck and shoulders for a bit, which she loved. She wants to receive more such work from me, and perhaps even a full session, very soon. We stayed talking in the Landing until just after 10PM, which means that I didn't get to my evening Hive tasks until after 10:30PM, way later than I had hoped. The one thing that I tell people here on Hive often is that, regardless of how amazing and worthwhile Hive is, that life should always take precedence, and last night I followed my own advice, and I deeply enjoyed it. Lizzie and I have plans to spend some time together again later today, doing something fun, which makes me smile, and is something to which I'm very much looking forward.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after getting my Hive tasks done, quite a bit later than usual, around 3:30PM. As is my present custom, I strained out and blended kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) first, and then I sharpened my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible tree leaves for cow-milking food. Once I was done with that I took a shower, in the middle of which Lizzie walked in, to return to cleaning our sad jungle bathtub. She asked me a question about the tub, which began our first actual conversation. After assisting her with that, I was planning on going to take photos for these posts, but instead ended up sharing wondeful conversation with Souzi and Lizzie in the Landing, over some ganja. Sperry joined us for a while, and then they finally left in the early evening, leaving Lizzie and I to continue our own very enjoyable conversation. After a glorious good-night hug, I finally collected my leftover jar of superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and headed back to the Flow House, to get into my Hive tasks, and catching up on my notifications, which as I mentioned above was much later than usual. Since I started so late, I was only able to get to within 18 hours of being fully caught up, before I had to make myself go to bed around 1:30AM. I woke up just after 6AM, still feeling like I needed more sleep, doing a round of token management, beginning on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee.

I spent a fair bit of time this morning troubleshooting why our solar electrical batteries drained completely down last night, necessitating turning on the generator for a short while. It's now just before 11:45AM, so a fantastic time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first strain out and blend kefir, hopefully take more photos for these posts, take photos for my entry in the Reflection Hunters Contest, and then to spend some more fun and sweet time with Lizzie. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until that post possibly later today, my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update probably tomorrow, and the next iteration of this post tomorrow! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart, reignite my heart sun, and embody a solid, healthy masculine, allowing my electric fire to shine bright, no matter what others, especially women, say or do. 

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

3.) Do regular (naked) integral practices again, alone or with others. 

4.) Dance regularly again.

5.) Work with natural entheogens (mushrooms, ganja, ayahuasca), with punctuated regularity, as a part of my healing process again. 

 6.) Get, and keep, regular deep, integral energy-body-tantric work healing sessions for women flowing again.

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

8.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again.

9.) 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, enjoyment, playfulness, work, fun, laughter, attraction, and all-level connections and relationships. 

10.) Make love with the woman, or the women, that I love, every day, as a sacred devotional practice. 

11.) 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. 

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 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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