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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Although it was a little behind schedule, I reached and surpassed 8,400 Hive Power yesterday afternoon, much to my satisfaction, now on to 8,500 HP. I've definitely noticed that when the fiat value of HIVE goes up, the APR for HP goes down, which means slower growth. Although I didn't reach my weekly goal of 8,400 HP before the end of the week, I did get very close. Hopefully I'll reach 8,500 by some time next week.

Since I never plan on powering down my Hive Power, it's pretty cool to know that any new high that I continue to reach here is the lowest amount of HP that I'll ever have. It's only going higher. My Hive account is finally coming to a place where my growth is beginning to accelerate notably, and not just in terms of Hive Power. The magic of compounding interest and exponential growth is a glorious thing indeed!

So the cow conundrum that I've mentioned a few times in my previous posts has finally been resolved, super thankfully. If it didn't get resolved, then I would have had to milk our cow, Daisy, alone every day for the whole rest of December, and I also wouldn't have been able to offer bodywork at Melekai's women's retreat. I'm deeply grateful that I'll be having assistance.

Kevin, who used to live here at GaiaYoga for a time, agreed to milk Daisy on the 18th and 19th, which will allow me to be a part of Melekai's women's retreat (as usual, I'm the only man that will be present, or who was invited). Also, a fellow who lives on our jungle road, Hans, is willing and able to help me milk for the rest of the month, which is excellent. He'll be coming over tomorrow morning for his trial run. Thankfully he's milked cows before, he just needs a refresher on the process.

Melekai's women's retreat is on the 17th (I'll be milking in the morning before I leave), 18th, and 19th, and will be held on a gorgeous property up on the Hamakua coast. This will be the first time in a few years where I'll be off-property for an extended period of time, so I'm going over everything that I need to do, or bring, before I leave. I'm sure that I'll be getting lots of beautiful photos while I'm there. I'll also be able to remain naked during my time there, for which I'm also deeply grateful. Most of the women attending already know and are comfortable with me, so things should flow nicely. This will be quite an adventure!

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after wrapping up my Hive tasks, around 2:45PM, later than usual, putting my focus first on photography for these posts, and then a little sunbathing on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn. When the sun disappeared behind clouds, I prepared some fresh-caught tuna stakes in the Landing, marinating them in lemon juice, black pepper, sea salt, dill, and garlic, and putting them in the fridge until later. After the fish was marinating, I returned to the Flow House for a short bit, to do some token management, and then I chopped and dumped used coconuts, and cleaned around the upper coco bar. With that done, collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted foliage for cow-milking food, which I finished just before sunset. After cow food, I took a shower, then I cooked up the tuna that I had been marinating in the fridge. With my food, and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand (or hands, as the case may be), I made my way back to the Flow House, to enjoy my food, and to get into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. Given that I wasn't able to get through all my notifications the night before, and that I had a lot more from last night, I got done a little after 12AM, and after some token management, I went to bed a bit after 12:15AM. I wish I could say that I slept well, but alas, that was not the care. I woke up just after 8:30AM, later than usual, definitely still needing more sleep, doing a round of token management, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk the cow with Jo. Once I was done with milking, I returned to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1PM, so a very good 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 take more photos for these posts, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until 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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