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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
As of today, April 1st (the post date is for yesterday), I've been on the Big Island of Hawai'i, the whole time in Lower Puna on the far Eastern tip, for exactly 6 years. I never left the Island once I came, and I have no present plans to do so, for multiple reasons. Incredibly, for the vast majority of the past 6 years I've very gratefully been able to live naked and barefooted, close to earth and nature, which continues to this day. Living here has not been an easy journey for me at all, but I would not trade it for anything, as I've learned and grown immensely in the process, and I'm still living closer to how I most desire to live than ever before in my life, even with the very notable challenges. I couldn't even imagine going back to 'regular society'. Once you taste the Real, there's no going back.
I did quite a bit of SWAP.LTC trading yesterday, a little buying, but mostly selling, as the prices kept creeping up all day, with occasional dips. Even though there is less volume, I still far prefer to be trading on our own decentralized, internal exchange, than on any centralized platform, which I only use when absolutely necessary. Keeping a good balance of both SWAP.LTC and SWAP.HIVE allows me to take good advantage of both the jumps and the dips. At some point soon, likely once I've made 100% of the original deposit in profit, I'll branch out to other tokens, like SWAP.BTC, SWAP.DOGE, and SWAP.BCH.
I had a thought yesterday on the nature of investments in layer 1 compared to layer 2. Layer 1, which is directly connected to core Hive functioning, is developed by various people in the community, and as such, since development is more decentralized, there is more overall stability in layer 1, and therefore in the investments made there than in layer 2. Most layer 2 development seems to be more fueled by individuals working alone, which means that if an individual goes MIA, then the project s/he runs also goes offline. Since layer 2 is notably less stable than layer 1, it also holds to reason that investments made in layer 2 are also more risky, since they rely on individual people to allow them to function. This realization will definitely be informing how I invest moving forward.
One cool thing from yesterday was that I set out to finally get to the bottom of a very annoying and very persistent issue in Arch Linux, and after two attempts, I succeeded on the second. Basically I haven't been able to log into KDE Plasma desktop environment (my preferred one) for several months now, across two separate Arch Linux installations, after a particular update. I had an intuition to look into a particular idea about what may be causing it, and that idea is what allowed me to finally fix things. I get intuitive hits about everything, including technology. Needless to say, I felt a good deal of accomplishment at my success.
Although I had several tasks to get done yesterday, both on Hive, and here in the jungle, I was able to complete everything fairly quickly and easily, which is great. I devoted a good portion of the day to Hive, as usual, with my regular daily tasks to complete, catching up fully on notifications, along with writing and publishing two posts, April 1st HPUD - Hive Power Up Day - 17.9 HIVE Powered Up Today! and My 96th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: 2/3 Weekly Goals Exceeded, New Assets in Play, and the Question of DHEDGE. I was able to get my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update published just before 11:30PM, and I got to bed around 12AM. I wasn't able to sleep well, again (sigh), waking up just after 7:30AM, doing a round of token management, beginning on this post, and then getting out of bed around 8:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee.
It's now just before 11:45AM, and I'm in the Monday Leadership Council meeting, so it's an excellent time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, and after the meeting, giving Harmony a short session with focused work, strain out and blend kefir, and then land work. I deeply appreciate you all so very much! Until tomorrow! Forward, onward, and upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.