I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #604 - 2024 Life Goals Updated Again, and Another Very Close Call - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, March 23, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Last night I had a hair-raising close call, one that came so close to disaster that I laid in semi-shock afterward in my bed, incredibly grateful that I had successfully averted it. That's the second super-close call recently, the other being the branch that hit me hard on my outside-right eyebrow, coming within less than an inch of hitting my eye. I'll get back to my harrowing experience in a moment. First I want to talk about my 2024 Life Goals, that I originally created back in December, a little before New Year, and which I've revised, refined, and updated a few times now.

Last night, after my close brush with disaster, and unable to sleep, I did a third major update to my goals for this year. Back in December I started with 6 goals, then with the first major update I had 9, and with this last update I'm now up to 11. I also tweaked and reworded some of my goals, and reordered them, too, by levels of importance. As opposed to going over each one, which I do not have the motivation to do right now, I'll simply show the previous version right before the updated iteration.

Here's the previous expression.

Previous 2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart and embody a solid, healthy masculine. 

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

3.) Do regular integral practices again. 

4.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again. 

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

6.) 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. 

7.) Get regular deep, integral energy-body-tantric work healing sessions with women flowing again.

8.) 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, joy, playfulness, work, attraction, all-level connections, and relationships. 

9.) Make love with the women that I love every day.

And the newest updated version.

Updated 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. 

I've continued to tweak, refine, and update these goals as I've received clarity from working with them, which I actually like a lot better than just creating static goals and sticking with those. Yes, I am well aware that my goals for this year may raise a few eyebrows, but being authentic, real, genuine, open, honest, and transparent, is far more important to me than coddling people in their discomfort of different and diverse human expression. I want full fulfillment, not watered-down and diluted partial satisfaction. So yeah, I'm real and I'm raw in these posts, and that's probably only going to increase over time. Very thankfully I am making quite good progress on most of these updated goals, though of course, I can do even better, which is exactly what I hope, intend, and plan to do as this year continues to unfold.

Now back to my very close call last night. Yesterday was not a very inspiring or interesting day for me, with me feeling pretty shut down and withdrawn, which frustrated me. So I decided to get some energy flowing by starting a fire in the fire pit in front of the Flow House, which I had not used since around May or June of last year, due to my broken-hearted state. I'm a fire creature (astrologically and elementally), so starting, tending, and being around fires is something that I not only love deeply, but it's also something that's quite good for me. I still had wood sitting in bins up at the Flow House, so I didn't need to get any. I only collected a little cardboard and paper, to get the fire going. As the fire started and grew in heat and intensity, I slowly added in wood and bamboo over the next few hours, as I stated on my Hive tasks and catching up on notifications. I also burned a painting that my ex-girlfriend, Kai, had given me for my birthday, which I'd been meaning to do for a while.

When I was finally done on a Hive just before 8PM, I did some token management, scanned my X feed, then I went to bed just before 9PM, quite a bit earlier than usual. The fire still had a little life, but was mostly out by this point, which is why I felt safe going to sleep as it was. Just after 11:15PM, however, I bolted upright, wide awake, knowing that something was wrong, and just in the nick time, too. The plastic roll-up mat that I had laid out on the wooden deck of the Flow House, which is in in front of the fire pit, was on fire, along with the wood below it. Ridiculously gratefully I caught it while it was still small, and had not spread far. I had a 5-gallon bucket of water that catches rain off the roof, that I poured on the fire, both on the wooden deck, and in the fire pit. Lesson learned. Never, ever leave a fire burning if there is anything flammable anywhere near it.

The only other thing I did of any note yesterday was doing some clearing work with my machete, on the driveway near the Flow House, and around an avocado tree on a hill near Tutu's. I didn't even strain out and blend kefir, as I had 3 jars already ready to drink, so I held off for a day.

I'm leaving the property today, Sunday, but not for Sunday Funday, or to spend time doing fun things with people. I broke my phone's screen about a month ago, and while the screen still worked, water slowly began seeping into the cracks, causing pixels in parts of the screen to go black, and this continues to spread, so I'm getting a new phone at the Cricket store in Pāhoa before this one becomes completely unusable. I'll also be picking up some organic tobacco and hemp papers at the smoke shop, for the first time in over a year and a half. Harmony is getting some extra ganja for me, with which I'll be making a spliff blend. I'll see if I can keep it in balance. If not, I'll let it go again.

After my errands in town (I'm catching a ride with Bryan and Stefano), I'll be coming back to the jungle at GaiaYoga Gardens, to focus on my Hive Goals and Progress Update, which I did not have the motivation to do last night. I'm wondering if and when I will successfully move it to Saturday, as I've been saying that I want to do.

It's just past 8:45AM, so it's a marvelous time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, then make my superfood fire coffee, before heading to town around 11:30AM. I deeply appreciate you all so very much! Until my 95th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update tonight, and the next incarnation of this post 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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