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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

One activity that I find myself doing quite often on Hive is assisting and helping our Hive newbies, both with advice, suggestions, and my perspectives, as well as support in terms of assets and resources. This is something that comes naturally to me, and I enjoy doing it. I want any newcomers with whom I interact to know and understand just how exceptional and special that Hive is, and the incredible potential and opportunities that exist on this badass, bodacious Blockchain.

I want newcomers to comprehend clearly that Hive is not get-rich-quick or just-make-a-buck, but rather wealth, in both assets and relationships, that is built and grown over time, with commitment and patience. I tell them to look at Hive, and what they do here, like a personal business, and that the more that they give to it, the more they will receive in return. I make sure that they know that the true value of Hive's assets is the people that make up the links of this People's Blockchain, and that the relationships that they make and grow here are just as valuable, even far more so, than any assets that they might acquire or generate.

In the 3 years, 2 months, and 10 days that I've been on the Blockchain, I have learned a great deal, and I've come to many very helpful and useful realizations at various points in my Hive journey. My desire and intention in offering my assistance and suggestions to newcomers is to help them to save the time that it took me to learn and understand various aspects of how Hive works, so that they can grow and progress more quickly than I did when I was a newbie. I tell them the things that I wish I had known.

I teach newbies that our individual success on the Blockchain is inherently linked together, that we need each to succeed here, that we rise by lifting others, and that their success is my success, and visa-versa. I want to help be the reason that a newcomer decides to stay on Hive, and to dig in deep, to explore and realize the astounding possibilities that await their passionate commitment and dedication.

I want to mention one particular Hive newcomer that I've been assisting lately, @okarun, who arrived on the Blockchain exactly one month ago today (December 3rd). I've shared several threaded conversations with him in his time here, and offered various ideas and suggestions, many of which he's implemented, and which have allowed him to grow his account a fair bit more quickly than is the usual. I also see him popping up everywhere, engaging and getting himself involved with various initiatives and communities, even appearing on the Ecency Leaderboard. The more I see him doing his best, and giving his all, the more inspired and motivated I am to assist him. He doesn't ask for handouts, he's grateful for what he does receive, as well as being generous with the assets and resources that he does have available, which is a beautiful way to flow on Hive. He's got a very bright future on Hive if he continues on his present path, and I'll do what I'm able to help make that possible. Excellent job, @okarun!

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, just after 2PM, putting my attention first on some photography for these posts, and then straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing. Once that was done, I ended up making food for Iolanthe and her brother Elohi down at Tutu's, and then after a short break up at the Flow House to do a little token management, I got my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food. My last task of the day was to chop and dump old and used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and to clean and tidy it up a bit. When I had that done, just before sunset, I took a shower, then I made myself some food in the Landing (mini spiced and seasoned beef patties, with pepper jack cheese, and honey mustard), and with food and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand, I headed back to the Flow House, to dive into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done on Hive just a little after 12:15AM, and after a little token management, I went to bed just after 12:30AM. I did thankfully sleep well (3 days in a row!), waking up just after 8AM, doing another round of token management, starting on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk the cow with Jo. As soon as I was done with milking, I returned 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 few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to first focus on photography (if the weather cooperates), and then community/land work. I may also go over to Lea's after wrapping things at GaiaYoga up, to help her set up her new phone. 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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.