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 don't know what it is about today, but all at the same time multiple things that I need to work just didn't. While we were able to resolve the issue with the generator yesterday, and get it working again so that it could charge the batteries for our solar electrical system to get through the night, when I went to start it again this morning, since it's still densely cloudy with no sun, it would not start yet again. So we're basically back to the same place that we were yesterday, with the need to open the engine again and clean the carburator, as it keeps getting clogged apparently. This is not exactly how I had wanted to spend my Sunday.

On top of that, while my Qortal node was working fine for most of the evening, this morning it has been unable to connect well with other peers. Thankfully at least I was able to have it online and minting through the last payout windows. I'm still working on this as well while I write this post. The Qortal network has had some immense challenges over the past almost 2 weeks now, and although things are being resolved, and are far better than they were just a short time ago, they are still not where they need to be yet. Even the Arch Linux installation on which I'm running it seems to be having some annoying issues, which is causing me to have to focus on it at a time when I don't have time. Very not fun.

Even when I was attempting to upload photos for this post through PeakD, it kept failing over and over again, on both the release and the beta sites. It took a hell of a lot of determination and time to get these 13 imagines uploaded successfully. I also started later than usual today, so I have very little time before this post needs to be published, so I'm in a race against time, and at the worst possible time with so many things going awry.

I'm generally pretty good under pressure, but when too many things go wrong at the same time, it is exceedingly stressful to say the least. It's just so wild that various important things that usually work fine, are so not working now. This has certainly not been a mellow relaxing Sunday so far.

Even through all the chaos, with much focus and effort, I am getting through all the nonsense, and getting things done, even if way more innefficiently and slowly than usual. Keeping myself calm and relaxed through it all is not easy at all, because there are various things that need to get done by a certain time, both on Hive and here in this jungle community. I'm doing my absolute best, though, as I always do, and very thankfully it seems that things are slowly smoothing out and flowing more again, which is a very good thing. One step at a time.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, just a little after 1PM, heading to Powersharing first to check on the status of the generator. Ano and Alex had already started working on it, and were finishing up by the time I arrived. They were able to get it working again, which allowed us to charge the batteries so that they would keep the system running though the night. Of course, as mentioned above, it is no longer working yet again, and on another cloudy day, so working to get it functional again will be my top priority when I'm done with this post, and my other Hive tasks. Even though it was raining all day yesterday, I was able (with the help of an umbrella) to take more photos for these posts, and for my entry in the Reflection Hunters Contest. I strained and blended kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow milking food as well, before it started to get dark. When I got everything that I needed done, I took a shower, made myself some food in the Landing, collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, then I headed back to the Flow House to get into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I finished everything on Hive by just after 10PM, and after some token management, and a scan of my X feed, I went to bed around 11:30PM. I did sleep well, super thankfully, waking up around 8:30AM to Iolanthe coming up to the Flow House to ask about the internet, as it apparently hadn't been working for a bit (not surprising with how low the batteries were, as the electrical system had crashed in the early morning again). She was bored and wanted to hang out, so I delayed my usual morning Hive tasks for a little while. She showed me her Halloween costume, and decided that she wanted to dye my little ponytail blue and purple (with a water-based dye, so it would easily wash out), to which I agreed. When she was done with that, I went to Tutu's with her, then I left her there and returned to the Landing, to prepare my superfood fire coffee (although I didn't blend it yet because I had to wait for the battery charge to go up a bit more). As soon as I had that done, I went to milk the cow with Jo(hanna), a little later than usual. When I was done milking, I made my way to the Landing again to blend my superfood fire coffee, and then I returned to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1PM, so a great time to end this post, so that I can get to my few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to take more photos for these posts, hopefully fix the generator, and then collect cow food. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update tomorrow morning, and the next version of this post tomorrow afternoon! 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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