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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I just learned today, much to my chagrin, that the 1UP Cartel has shut down their curation and token-distribution services. I don't know how I missed it, but all services have been shut down since July 23rd, with all token delegators being asked to remove their delegations. That's another pretty big hit to my layer-2 income sources, as I've made use of the Cartel curation accounts pretty much since I arrived on the Blockchain over 3 years ago. I undelegated all my tokens just now, and when the process is complete, it will be time to reallocate these assets.

1UP Cartel Curation Accounts

@beatcz-curator
@bee-curator
@ccc-curator 
@cent-curator 
@cine-curator 
@ctp-curator 
@fun-curator 
@leo-curator 
@meme-curator 
@monster-curator 
@neoxag-curator 
@oneup-curator 
@pal-curator 
@pimp-curator 
@pob-curator 
@stem-curator 
@thg-curator 
@vibes-curator 
@vyb-curator
@weed-curator 

While this is very sad news, it's been a rather common thing on Hive as of late, with multiple layer-2 projects failing. I just adapt and flow with it all the best the I'm able.

Many of these tokens that are being undelegated from the Cartel accounts can be redelegated to the various curation accounts for the LOLZ project, thankfully. This will at least give me a nice boost to my daily LOLZ income, and as such, my placement in the LOLZ richlist, which will provide greater dividends.

For BEE and POB, I'll redelegate to @bee.voter and @pob.voter respectively, both of which pay out weekly in HIVE, so this should also give me a nice boost to my monthly HPUD powerups. This will help me in reaching my year-end goal of 10,000 HP, which would be a very good thing indeed.

The end of the Cartel services exemplifies why it is so important to not depend or rely on only one service, income token, or project, to grow and reach goals. Redundancy is essential on Hive, as it is in life. The end of this service is akin to when the DHEDGE project ended, another that I used and relied on heavily. I always find a way to reallocate my assets to keep growth moving along, however.

Because of my desire for greater backup redundancy, and to make use of my assets in the best possible way, I'm always on the lookout for new services that allow me to do so. If anyone reading this is aware of other curation services, or projects that accept layer-2 delegations, and provide benefits for doing so, I'd love to hear about them.

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House around 2PM, after finishing up my Hive tasks, heading to do a little sunbathing on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn first. I wasn't feeling well yesterday, in large part because I was so sleep-deprived, and laying in the sun usually helps me feel better, as it did yesterday too. After sunning for a while, I took a hot shower, then I made my way to the Landing to strain and blend kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao). With that done, I put my focus on some photography for these posts. I had to split it up in the day a bit, since the sun was playing hide-and-seek behind the clouds quite a lot. I was able to get enough photos for 2 days of posts, which is always my goal. Once I had gotten a nice batch of photos, I collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food. Once I had that done, I took another shower, then headed to the Landing to make myself some food. As soon as I was done preparing that, I returned to the Flow House to get into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I was able to get everything done by around 11:30PM, and after some token management, I went to bed just before 12AM. Super thankfully I slept very well, waking up around 7:30AM, doing another round of token management, starting on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk the cow. Jo(hanna) wasn't feeling well, so I ended up milking with Alex (a new fellow at GaiaYoga), which went smoothly. As soon as I was done with milking, I headed back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12:30PM, 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, some for my entry in the Shadow Hunters Contest, and then community/land work. I have a few personal tasks to get done today, too, like taking my massage table up to the Kuti for Harmony's session tomorrow, and to do a load of session laundry (sheets and pillow cases). I also need to plant 2 banyan tress out in the jungle that are sitting up at the Kuti. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my entry for the Shadow Hunters Contest later today, and the next version 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.