I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1070 - My Entire Life Has Been The Path Less Traveled - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, July 2, 2025

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 6 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

The entire extent of my almost 53 years on earth could be summed up with the phrase 'the path less traveled', and that holds true for every domain of my life. Feeling and being so different from the vast majority of people that I knew caused me a lot of distress and pain as a child, because I desperately wanted to fit in with those around me. Although I have shared beautiful connections and relationships with people at different times in my life, for the most part it's been quite a lonely path that I've walked.

This seems to come down to both an innate difference, and one that has grown over time as I've explored, learned, and developed as a human. That last part is a bugger indeed, because as more has come into my awareness over the years, and the more I've explored, researched, reconciled, and integrated my perspective and understanding, the more challenging it's become to share meaningful conversations with people, as from my experience most people's perspectives are simply far more limited, without sufficient awareness, or much depth of real understanding. That's more true today than ever, sadly, and as such, difference and aloneness have become like bookends to my life.

Through my life I've noticed that most people seemed less aware in many ways, and that they apparently didn't share my deep desire and need to know and understand what is real and true about everything (and I do mean everything!), so they just didn't explore, experiment, and research as deeply and as extensively as I did. That's why sharing truly meaningful and engaging conversions with the people around me has become increasingly challenging. The more I've come to know and understand, the more alone I've become. As it stands now, I spend 95-99% of my time alone. Interestingly, I'm hugely more social on Hive than anywhere else, though even here it can be challenging for me at times.

I've also found many people to be locked into their particular perspectives, seemingly unwilling to explore beyond it. In my own life, I've shifted my perspective so many times, as I've become more aware, and as I've come to understand and know more. I'm constantly exploring, reconciling, and integrating new perspectives into my own, which for most people seems not to be the case.

I was looking for what I call my soul tribe, and for true feminine partnership, for most of my life, however in the last few years I've mostly let go of even those, which were so important to me. There is certainly still pain around that. Now I'm simply purpose-driven, focusing on what is most inspiring, exciting, and meaningful for me, which for me is authentically assisting and helping people in myriad ways, and creating beauty in many contexts. This gives me some sense of satisfaction as I go about my usually lonely days, for which I'm truly deeply grateful. My life is not easy, but I work with what I've got, and I do the best that I'm able.

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up my Hive tasks by around 1PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session started a little late, and we wrapped it up by a little after 5:30PM, after which I stopped by the Landing to collect some leftover food, and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then I made my way back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. Although I wasn't able to catch up fully the night before, because I got sleepy, I was thankfully able to get through everything last night by around 10:30PM, and after some asset management, and a scan of my X feed, I went to bed a bit before 12PM. I woke up quite early again, around 5AM, having slept reasonably well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 11:45AM, so a fantastic time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to jump into some photography for my posts first, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's incarnation of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

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

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) 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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