I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #805 - Hive Has Expanded My Horizons - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, October 10, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Since I arrived in the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem 3 years and 18 days ago (1,114 days total), the horizons of my interests and passions have been immensely expended. In my multitudinous conversations with Hivers over that time, I've seen that this is true for many of you as well. There is something very special about Hive that gently nudges us to explore outside our comfort zones, and to unfold and develop different aspects of our beings.

Before Hive, taking photos was an occasional activity for me, with no great interest to inspire or motivate it. It was the various photography contests across numerous Hive communities that originally got me into taking photos in any sort of regular fashion, and the more that I did it, the more I came to appreciate and love it. As time went on, I even started to become pretty good at photography, as I developed an eye for what made a good shot. Today, more than 3 years later, photography has become one of my great loves, which I now practice very regularly, usually taking at least a dozen or more photos every day.

Investing and finance is another area in which I had very little interest before discovering Hive, partly because I rarely had sufficient assets to invest, and because I was acutely aware that fiat currencies, which are all based on debt, are a very effective means of enslaving and controlling population, so I wanted as little to do with them as I possibly could. That all changed when I realized that Hive assets were not based on debt, but rather on our human value, and that because I owned and controlled the keys to my account, the assets that I had in my wallet were truly mine, that I could use however I wanted. The fact that Hive is a compounding interest and exponential growth machine, with innumerable ways to generate and leverage assets against each other for ever-greater growth, also made me become a very passionate trader, investor, and financial explorer, who is always seeking to utilize every asset that I have available to the best of my ability.

Engagement is something else that I did sparingly before Hive, and even in my first several months here, it was a rather sporadic practice. Because engagement with my fellow Hivers is strongly incentivized, I began to put more focus on it, and slowly over time, I began to increase and ramp it up, until today I am one of the strongest and most active engagers on the Blockchain. The contrast between how it was when I first got here to now is as stark as night and day.

Hive also clarified in my mind the incredible importance, and benefit, of assisting, helping, and supporting each other, given that we need each other to succeed here, and that nobody can do it alone. As I say all the time, on Hive we rise by lifting others, others' success is directly connected with our own, and that together we thrive. As my perspective on this solidified, I came to realize and understand that everything that I do on Hive, or in my life, should always be aligned and done based on the principle of Maximum Mutual Benefit (MMB). That is the foundation upon which my meta-project with @borniet is now being built. In truth, I've changed and grown so much during my time on Hive, and a good bit of it is exactly because of my experiences on this glorious and exceptional Blockchain, and feel like I'm just getting started.

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after wrapping up my Hive tasks, putting my focus first on something quite unexpected, milling the cow. Usually it is done in the morning, but because there was a failure in communication, and I was not told that I needed to milk, I ended up doing it in the early afternoon with Cameron. Once milking was done, I returned to the Flow House for a little while longer to relax, and then I went to the Landing to make myself some food, one of my badass cheeseburgers. Once I had eaten, I collected a wheelbarrow full of Melochia leaves for cow-milking food, to make sure that it was done right, so that Daisy the cow would have food that she actually liked (she's much more mellow and happy during miking when she does). After that was done, I took a shower, then put some time into photography for these posts, and for my entry in the Reflection Hunters Contest. The last task that I did in the day was to help Melekai carry a table from Ano's studio (that is still under construction), up to the space that she's been preparing for herself at the Kuti. With that accomplished, I collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and made my way back to the Flow House to write and publish My Entry for Shadow Hunters Community Contest/Show Me a Shadow: Round 342 - Palm Shadows on Banana Leaves, and then get to my usual evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done on Hive around 9PM, and I spent a while more engaging and posting on Waves, and Ecency proper, tracking events on my X feed, doing a little more token management, and then going to bed around 10:45PM. Unfortunately I woke up around 4AM, and unable to sleep, I got up for about an hour and a half to do some token management, and scan my X feed again, before another partially-successful attempt at sleep. I woke up again around 8:30AM, definitely feeling like I still needed more sleep, starting another round of token management, beginning on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk the cow again, this time alone. It was my first time milking the cow alone, and thankfully it went smoothly. Once I had finished that, I took a shower, and returned to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1PM, so a good time to end this post, so that I can get to my few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first take more photos for these posts, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my entry for the Reflection Hunters Contest later today, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.