I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #843 - Another Star for the DRIP Project, and a Beautiful Sunday Out - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, November 17, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I spent yesterday, Sunday, down on the coast again, for a second week in a row, this time with Harmony, Soozi, and Alex. This was Harmony's last Sunday Funday here before her flight back to the mainland for several months, so it was wonderful to be able to spend some time with her before she left. Although it was rainy again as we headed toward the coast, by the time we got there, the sun was beginning to dominate once again.

The beach (Kehena, our beloved local black-sand beach that has been clothing-optional since 1955) was beautiful as ever, though the ocean was quite a lot rougher than it has been lately. While I did go swimming, I didn't go out for long, or go far from the shore. I had a lot of fun playing in the waves as they crashed into the shore. The contrast between the warm sun on my skin, and the cool waves enveloping me, was strikingly exquisite.

We stayed at the beach until the sun moved behind the cliffs, around 4:30PM, then we packed up and relocated to the Lawn, which was its usual Sunday bustle of activity. I didn't dance too much this week, a little at both the beach and the Lawn, focusing more on some photography in the gorgeous early-evening light. Harmony did get a lot of dancing in, however. We stayed at the Lawn until it began to rain, at which point we packed up and made our way back to GaiaYoga.

One cool thing that I want to mention, on a slightly different topic, is a recent experience with the DRIP project. The other day I had noticed that I didn't receive the usual SWAP.HIVE and DRIP payouts for my staked DRIP. I was one of two people to communicate this on the DRIP Discord server, and after a short time, it was reported that a bug was discovered while they were experimenting with sending out SPS in the daily payouts, that it was fixed, and that payouts would be double the next day. That my friends, is how you handle issues that arise.

I've been appreciating the DRIP Project more and more, and for very good reason. There have been two payout issues in the time that I've owned DRIP, and both times were handled in an exemplary manner. They get another gold star from me!

After returning to GaiaYoga last night, I carried Soozi's drums to the Landing with Harmony, gave her a warm last hug (before she leaves the Island), made some guac toast with the guacamole that I had made the day before, and collected my jar of kefir from the fridge, before finally heading back to the Flow House to get back to my Hive tasks, and catching up on my notification, which I had started at the Lawn. I got everything done a little after 10:30PM, and after some token management, and a scan of my X feed, I went to bed just before 12PM. I woke up just after 7AM, still feeling like I needed more sleep, doing a round of token management, and writing and publishing My 129th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: 8,200 HP Surpassed, and Another Great Week of Growth, Even with Missed Goals post, and then heading to milk the cow with Jo(hanna). As soon as I was done milking, I made my way back to the Landing to make my superfood fire coffee, and then back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1PM, so a marvelous time to end this post, so that I may get to my other few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to first take more photos for these posts, strain and blend kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration of this post! 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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