I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #702 - Photography Full Circle, Ready for HPUD, and DRIP APR Change - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, June 29, 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 is going to be quite a busy Hive Sunday indeed, with at least 4 posts to write! As I've mentioned a few times in these posts, it was Hive that originally first got me into photography, and turned me into the passionate photographer that I am today. It all started with entering various photo contests, the most significant being the Shadow Hunters and the Reflection Hunters Contests. After a holiday break for the contests two years ago, and my own rapidly-increasing activity, engagement, daily tasks to complete, and just keeping up with my notifications, I never got back into the swing of participating in them. I have been getting nudges, however, both internally (from my own desire) and externally (from people wanting me to get myself involved again), to get back into these wondeful photo contests regularly again.

So today will the first time in about two years that I'll be submitting my entries in both contests once again. While getting beautiful shadow shots is easy here in the jungle, finding good reflection photos is far more challenging, and requires quite a bit more creativity. The new round of the Shadow Hunters Contest makes it's appearance on Friday, with the Reflection Hunters Contest following the next day, on Saturday. I already took some photos for both contests earlier this morning, so we'll see how I do! So it would seem that I've come full circle with my Hive photography, returning to where I began!

Because today is the last day of June, and due to my location in the world, after 2PM this sunny Sunday I'll also be powering up around 20 HIVE for the July 1st HPUD. What's so cool about the HIVE that I power up each month now is that all of it comes from passive income, and rewards from me just being as active as I am on Ecency. I realized yesterday that I forgot to take my powerup today into account when I made my weekly goals in my 108th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update last week, so I'll be way over my HP goal this time around. I can't believe that I forgot, but things like that do happen occasionally. Are you ready for HPUD? Speaking of my Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update, yeah, I've got to write that too, but with 3 posts to write today, I'll most likely get it done tomorrow morning.

On July 1st (after 2PM today my time) the 149% APR for DRIP staking rewards will be changing to 1%, which is why I chose to seize the opportunity and buy a large quantity of DRIP last week, to grow my holding as much as possible before the APR change. I still have 2,158.414 DRIP staked on my @tydyn.rain account, with all SWAP.HIVE made there used to buy more DRIP. That has been combined with the daily DRIP payouts to send to this account to stake. So in addition to the DRIP staked on my other account, I now also have 63.698 DRIP staked on this account, for a grand total of 2,222.112 DRIP. Not bad at all, especially considering that the daily SWAP.HIVE payouts will continue to rise moving forward. With my giant income-token purchase of BXT, DRIP, and INCOME, I now have a fair bit more daily liquidity in both HIVE and SWAP.HIVE, to buy more solid income tokens, to add to diesel/liquidity pools, to power up, and to use for trading on Hive engine, which will have the effect of accelerating my growth even more. That's pretty nifty indeed!

Yesterday, Saturday, after finishing up my morning-afternoon Hive tasks just about 2PM, I gave Melekai a session. We started about 2:30PM, and we got done around 5:30PM, so a reasonably short session (for me, anyway!). It was a good session, with her leaving happy and grateful, which is always my greatest desire and intention. After Melekai's session, I went straight into collecting a wheelbarrow full of Cecrpoia and Melochia leaves for cow-milking food. Once that was done, I took a shower, collected my leftover quart jar of superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to jump into my evening round of Hive tasks, and catching up on my notifications. I finished catching up by just before 10PM, and I spent the rest of the evening posting and engaging on Waves, before finally going to bed a little after 12:30AM. Unfortunately I did not sleep well at all, starting on some token management on Hive around 4:30AM, then trying unsuccessfully to sleep again around 5:30AM, getting out of bed finally just a bit after 8:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee.

It's now just before 1PM, so a great time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, start on my posts for the Shadow Hunters and Reflection Hunters Contests, then leave the Flow House later in the afternoon to strain out and blend kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and take more photos for these posts, then returning to the Flow House to power up my HIVE and write my HPUD post, before diving into my usual evening Hive tasks, and catching up on notifications. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my Shadow Hunters and Reflection Hunters posts, my Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update post, 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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