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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Finding inspiration, motivation, and drive while in the midst of very challenging and difficult times is really not so easy, I have to say. That's how things have been lately in this off-grid jungle community where I've lived for most of the last 5.5 years, and they seem to be going farther in that direction with each passing day. I truly am doing my best, but damn, it's crazier than it's ever been here, by far.

While I have always loved several important aspects about this community, which is why I've remained here for so long, I've been pushed to the edge, and beyond, in the past few months, and especially in the last few weeks. Because of this, maintaining my usual solidly-regular Hive focus and schedule has also taken quite notable determination. Both on the world stage, and here in the jungle, it feels like things are about to explode and fall apart. I take it all, to the best of my ability, one day at a time.

As to how it's going to go here, I can't yet say. It's certainly not looking or feeling good, quite the opposite actually. It seems like the darkness is bubbling up everywhere, and man is it ugly. My heart is strong, but it hurts so much from all this. Finding and keeping my inner calm and peace takes next-level skill now. This appears to be true just about everywhere, worldwide.

I've got to be honest, I'm exhausted, and I feel a great deal of stress (negative stress, distress, as opposed to eustress, which is positive stress), so I don't know how much longer I can keep going like this. I've got to find my own center, my own solid ground on which to stand, and stay there, which is far easier said than done.

Clarity and courage to face the reality of things is essential, to shine a light on the darkness, and to stand strong for what is right. That's everyone's task in these times. I pray for myself, this community, and all of humanity. May we successfully surmount the challenges before us.

It's now just past 11:15AM, so a good time to end this post, so that I may get to my few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first strain and blend kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and then focus on some community tasks and land work. I already took a good batch of photos this morning, while the sun was shining, both for these posts, and for my entry in the Shadow Hunters Contest, thankfully. I deeply appreciate you all so very much! Until my Shadow Hunters entry shortly, and tomorrow's expression 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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