I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #519 - Forward, Onward, and Upward, Even in Pain - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i -Thursday, December 28, 2023

I live barefooted and naked, 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. 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I mentioned in my previous post, I lost my dear, sweet kitty friend early yesterday morning. Even though I grew up with many kinds of animals, she was the first 'pet' that I've had in many years. She was such a blessing and a joy in my life for the time that she was with me. I so deeply appreciate all the kind messages of care, love, and support that many of you left in comments to that post. I cried a lot reading and answering them. Thank you!

So here I am today, with quite a lot of pain, grief, and sadness in my broken heart, showing up on this Blockchain that I love and appreciate so much, to continue forward, for myself, and everyone else here. I still don't know how I'm aupposed to fully heal my heart when I seem to keep experiencing one heart-breaking experience after another. I'm strong, but bloody hell. Regardless of that, or anything, I promise you, my beloved Hive community, that I am here to stay, to continue creating and building, growing and saving, for me, and for all of you. I really do need to learn to let go of all the pain that I've been holding, from so many heart-breaking experiences, so that I am able totally heal my heart, as I pretty much just stay to myself in the jungle at the moment, which is definitely not using the many gifts the I have well.

I am looking forward to my next year on Hive, and it looks like I'll be starting it well! I claimed 3.661 HBD in interest this morning, brining my total now to 230.582 HBD in Savings, which surpassed my weekly goal! By New Year, after my #HPUD powerup, I should have around 5,975 HP, so I'll surpass 6,000 HP this coming week, which is another excellent milestone on my Hive journey. 10,000 HP, which is my goal for 2024, will not be far off, and will very likely be reached and surpassed long before the year is up. I also only have 0.194 points more until I reach 69 Reputation, which is also pretty great.

I plan to continue building, growing, and saving on Bastyon and Qortal going into the new year, and hopefully to begin doing the same on Koinos and Holochain soon, too. I want to create as much cross-blockchain synergy as I'm able, for the benefit of all of these sovereignty-driven blockchain ecosystems, Hive included.

Many of you have noticed that I am relentless with what I do on Hive. This is because see see clearly and feel strongly what is possible, for myself, and everyone here. The more and faster I grow here, the sooner I'll be able to help more people in greater ways, and to live off of what I've created. Even in heartbreak, sadness, grief, and pain, that is incredibly inspiring and motivating for me, and gives me the impetus to continue onward, for one and all!

I barely remember the times of when I did things yesterday. I know I left the Flow House, after finishing essential Hive tasks, just after 2:30PM. Because I used photos of my kitty friend in my good-bye post for her, I didn't use the photos that I had taken the day before, so they're getting used in this post today. I collected a wheelbarrow full of Melochia, Cecropia, and Falcataria leaves for cow-milking food, and then I did some paid work in Ano's nursery, up-potting mango saplings and weeding.

When I had work done I took a shower, strained out kefir for my kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao blend, made myself food, then I returned to the Flow House for my evening round of Hive tasks and catching up on notifications. I had a lot of notifications, and I also wasn't as efficient as I usually am, so I wasn't able to fully catch up last night, going to sleep just after 11PM when I was still 13 hours behind. I slept well, waking up at 7:30AM, doing a round of token management, and then working on catching up on notifications again, before getting out of bed around 9:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee. I'm still presently a day behind on Hive, which I'll do my best to rectify today.

It's now just after 1:15PM, so it's a good time to end this post, so that I may get go my afternoon round of essential Hive tasks, and to go take photos for tomorrow's iteration of this post and do land work, in the later afternoon. I deeply appreciate you all so very much! Until tomorrow! Forward, Onward, and Upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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