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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

In the 3 years, 2 months, and 29 days (1,186 days total) that I've been active on the Blockchain, I've continued to go deeper the more that I've learned, to become more involved as I connect and grow relationships, and also to become more invested both in assets and loyalty, in this incredible Ecosystem the longer that I've been here. Hive truly is my digital, online home and business, that I ironically manage naked and off-grid in the jungles of far East Big Island, Hawai'i (I've mentioned that I bridge diverse worlds, no?).

Initially it was a solo journey on Hive, as I took in and learned how everything works, began the process of leveraging and growing my assets, and connecting and growing relationships with many in the Hive community. The relationships that we build here often lead to unexpected opportunities and new worlds of possibilities.

My deeper involvement with the We Are Alive Tribe came when Erik (@flaxz), asked me if I'd be interested in being the comment moderator for the @aliveandthriving daily posts, a position that I've held, and a job that I've done consistently, for two years now. I did my best to help keep the Alive Tribe alive during Erik's absence, and now with the leadership of the Tribe now being passed to the three remaining core members (Rosyel, Ben, and myself), a whole new dimension of both possibilities and responsibilities have come into play, as we work to rebuild, revitalize, and make the Alive Tribe even better than it was before.

That's not the only project in which I'm involved, of course. The wonderful friendship that I made with @borniet grew into the Weirdness Squared Squad and what we are now creating together with the MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) Meta-Project, that started with tipping bots, and is growing into so much more. I'm deeply excited for what @borniet and I will bring to the Hive community when MMB is fully up and running, as well as for the amazing potentials which may come to be with MMB and Alive Tribe collaboration.

Managing my time on Hive, and balancing it with my daily-life activities and tasks, has always been a bit challenging, and now that's going to another level again. I'm ready, willing, and able, however, to do what needs to be done, and I very much look forward to co-creating some really beautiful things for the Hive community with both of these projects. My desire and intention for where we decide to take the Alive Tribe, and for what @borniet and I are creating with the MMB Meta-Project, is to create and maintain very mutually beneficial dynamics for everyone involved in them, at every level, so that we can all grow on this glorious Blockchain, together.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, just a little before 2PM, giving my attention first to some more photography for these posts. That process got paused when I heard Iolanthe calling my name. She and her friend Ila were giving a recently-arrived couple, Jordan and Christina, a tour of the property, and when I found them they were up at the Flow House, looking out over the lava field. We got into some great conversations, with them very interested in GaiaYoga and my experiences of living here over the past 5.5+ years. We continued our conversation as we walked around to various points on the property, with Io and Ila finally peeling off to go do other things. Jordan and Christina were also naturists/nudists, so they happy got rid of their clothes for the rest of the tour. They also helped me to collect a wheelbarrow full of assorted foliage for cow-milking food, for which I was grateful, before it got too dark. After collecting cow food, we rinsed off at the showers, and then I directed them on how to get back to Tutu's, the main community building, where a white elephant gathering was to be held in the early evening. Once I bid my farewells to them, I snagged my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to write and publish My Entry for Reflection Hunters Contest: Round 198 - Sauna Reflections, to get into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done by 11:30PM, and after a quick round of token management, I went to bed around 11:45PM. I slept pretty well, waking up a bit later than usual, just after 8:30AM, doing another round of token management, starting on this post, and then going to milk the cow. Hans texted me to let me know that due to stuff coming up in his life, that he wouldn't be able to help me milk the cow any longer. While receiving this news was sad, I wasn't too concerned, as I've gotten pretty good at milking Daisy alone, which is what I did this morning, and what I'll likely be doing for the rest of the month. After milking, I headed back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1PM, so an excellent 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 focus on photography for these posts, straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and then cow-food collecting. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until the next edition 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.

If you'd like to send me a BTC Lighting Tip (made possible by the fantastic work of brianoflondon on @v4vapp), just scan the QR image below. 👇

Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.