I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1006 - HPUD Today, Buried In Hive Notifications, and a Busy Jungle Day - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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 6 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

It's a busy day for me today, with a few important things on my itinerary, one of which is to power up the HIVE that I've been accumulating and saving all month for the May HPUD, and then of course write and publish my post about it. It's looking like I'll have around 48 HIVE to add to my Hive Power this time around, which I'll do in the early evening, after I finish with the session that I'll also be giving today, and perhaps a little asset management. The session is scheduled for 1:30PM, so I've got to write and publish this post, share it on X and Bastyon, republish it on Blurt, do more asset management, and prepare the Flow House for the session, before then. So far so good, especially since I'm starting on this post so early (it's just after 9AM now), so I should be good in terms of time.

Hive really is more than a full-time job for me, and sometimes that can be really challenging to work into my daily jungle-community activities and tasks, but I do my best, I give it my all, and it usually works out pretty well, very thankfully. Just getting through and responding to my notifications every night (and sometimes in the morning too, when I'm really behind) takes several hours. There are times, however, when I receive so many notifications, that even my many hours devoted to the task is not sufficient. That's how it's been for the last two evening, with me buried 2-days deep in an unbelievable amount of them, and even after working at it most of the night, I didn't even come close to catching up either night. Ugh. Well, I just do what I can, and keep moving forward.

I know many of my fellow Hivers don't keep up on their notifications quite as diligently and consistently as I do, and there's a part of me that kind of wishes that I were like that too. That's not the case, however. The idea of letting comments, replies, or mentions, or my regular daily engagement, fall by the wayside or through the cracks, annoys the heck out of me, and just doesn't work for me at all. I'm kind of all or nothing, though I am finding more balance over time. Hive, and what I do here, is very important to me, and I treat it that way.

It seriously blows my mind the sheer quantity of notifications that I can sometime get on certain days, which has been the case over the last two evenings. I mean, I'm grateful for it, but yikes! I paused writing this to go take a short 15-minute walk down our jungle road, to move my body and clear my mind a little, getting another nice batch of photos in the process. Even though I put a little more time into responding to notifications this morning, it's still not looking hopeful that I'll be able to get through them all tonight again either. I'll just keep plugging along, though.

The more that I engage on Hive, the more notifications I get, which is a bit of a double-edged sword. I mean engaging with my fellow Hivers is something that I love, but it also very often takes quite a lot of time, especially when it's more than usual. I can't not respond to people, other than occasionally when no response is needed or warranted, so if I see comments, replies, or mentions from Hive peeps, I'll always get to them as soon as I'm able. Hive still enthralls me, and it's a lot of work at the same time. I do it happily, though, because I deeply love and believe in this Blockchain, regardless of the challenges, and in what I'm creating, building, and growing here, so I will do what I have to do, no matter what. It's wild to me how much Hive has become a part of me, and how much I've become part of Hive. I'm a diehard Hiver to the max.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, once I finished up my Hive tasks, just a little after 2:30PM, heading to Tutu's to do the dry-goods order first, and then right into collecting a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food after that. I had intended to take photos and strain and blend kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) first, but that's just not how it flowed. I didn't get any photos yesterday, and I got to straining and blending kefir after cow food and a shower. When I finished with kefir, I collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to dive (in an easeful sort of way) into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications, which as you already know, there were great gagglefuck of them, and I wasn't able to get through them before needing to stop just after 11:30PM, to do some asset management, write and publish My Entry for Shadow Hunters Community Contest/Show Me a Shadow: Round 371 - Tropical Vibe Shadows, check notifications on Blurt (thankfully I'm not buried there yet...lol!), and finally go to bed a little after 12:30PM. I woke up way too early, and still needing more sleeps, a bit after 5AM, and unable to sleep more, doing more asset management, starting on this post, spending some time working on catching up more on my notifications, getting out of bed around 7:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, and then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 11:45AM, so a magnificent time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before preparing for my session at 1:30PM. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my HPUD post 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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