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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
While most holidays (and weekends) are usually pretty much the same as any other day for me, I've definitely been a very buzzy bee during the first two days of the New Year, with some things, like spending time with people, being a bit outside my norm. I originally had a session scheduled with Lea for yesterday, which we rescheduled for today, and instead I went over to her place to share a delicious New Year's meal that she prepared, some great conversation, and even a few rounds of a word game, which was all quite enjoyable. She even gave me a gift that she had made, much to my surprise and gratitude. I stayed over at Lea's until just a little after 7PM, and she kindly drove me back to GaiaYoga since it was raining (I would normally just have walked), which I very much appreciated. A lovely time it was indeed.
So today, after I finish this post, and my few other important Hive tasks, I'll be giving Lea her first full session, which she's been very much wanting for quite some time now. Since Lea already knows me well, and there is solid trust between us already, I feel very easeful about her session today, and I'm quite looking forward to it. Thankfully it's also a beautiful, sunny, warm day, so a great one for a session.
I had another tentative session scheduled with Riana for either tomorrow or Saturday, but with Lea's session needing to be moved to today, doing another session Friday would have been too challenging to fit into my busy schedule, so I was hoping to do Riana's session Saturday. Unfortunately that didn't work for Riana, so it's looking like her session will need to be rescheduled for next week. Because of the session that I thought that I was doing with Riana on Friday or Saturday, I also pushed Emily's session (she wanted one today) to next week, though I'm not sure yet if it will work with her schedule. We shall see.
On the Alive Tribe front, I was hoping to make an official announcement post on the @alive.chat account, of the restart of the community engagement activities, yesterday, but that sadly did not happen, as I was just juggling too many things in my day. Finding the time to format and write that post hasn't been so easy over the last few days, but I shall endeavor to get that done as soon as I'm able, hopefully within the next day or two.
Aside from the @alive.chat official announcement post, I also need to write my Shadow Hunters Contest entry today, and my Reflection Hunters entry post either tomorrow or Saturday, along with these daily posts, so yeah, time is the thing. I'm pretty bloody quick and efficient, but that's quite a few posts to write over the next few days. As in everything, always, I shall do my absolute best.
Yesterday, New Year's Wednesday, I left the Flow House around 1PM, to go collect a wheelbarrow full of assorted foliage for cow milking-food, to take a round of photos for these posts, strain and blend kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and then to head over to Lea's for our shared meal and time. After Lea dropped me off back at GaiaYoga around 7:15PM, I went to the Landing to get my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then back to the Flow House, to get into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications, a fair bit later than usual. Since I started so late, and because I had a lot of notifications, I wasn't able get through them all before I had to stop to go to bed around 12:45AM, way too late. I woke up about 8:30AM, still feeling like I needed more sleep, doing a round of token management, starting on this post, and then going to make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk Daisy with Sol, which went smoothly. After milking I returned to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12:15PM, so an excellent time to end this post, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive tasks, before preparing for Lea's session at 1:30PM. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my entry for the Shadow Hunters Contest later this evening, and the next version of this post tomorrow! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
2025 Life Goals
1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.
2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.
3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.
4.) 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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