I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #578 - Healing a Broken Heart, and the In-Between Space - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, February 26, 2024

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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Those of you that have been following my journey in these posts know that I'm in the process of working to heal my broken heart, which has been far from an easy task. As I've been mentioning here and there, however, things are beginning to flow more in my life, but it's still something of a back-and-forth experience, neither fully this nor that yet. I feel basically between two very different worlds of experience, in other words.

Because I'm in an in-between, transitional place, I've been having many more experiences that are what I'd call atypical, or outside my norm. Since what I do on Hive is so thoroughly and deeply integrated into my daily life, this is causing a bit of turbulence in what I do on Hive. The more time that I spend with people, the less time I have for Hive. This experience was quite pronounced yesterday, when, because of sharing time with people more than usual, I fell behind on Hive. Presently I'm about a day behind on my notifications, which I don't like at all, and I've been working to catch up, but I've got a way to go still.

This in-between place feels like I'm right in the middle between impossible and possible, hopeless and hopeful, and broken and whole, with the experiences in my life oscillating back and forth between these opposites. Because of this, as you might guess, my days can be wildly different from one to the next in terms of how they feel to me, but overall it does seem that things are looking up and improving.

As I slowly begin to allocate more time to people, I have, as I've mentioned, found it necessary to move certain tasks on Hive around a bit. This week, for example, I'm going to try out doing my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Updates on Saturday evening instead. I don't know yet how this is going to go, or if I'm still going to be able to do what I need to do on Hive if I decide to go out with people on Sunday Funday excursions. As I tell people here on Hive all the time, though, life should always take precedence, so I perhaps need to listen to my own advice. We'll see how this goes.

Yesterday, Monday, was a more-atypical day, not only for a Monday, but for my days in general lately. I left the Flow House a little after 2PM, putting my focus first on taking photos for this post. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate for that very well, so I only got a handful of shots before clouds moved in once again. I decided to strain out kefir for my kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao blend, while I waited for the sun to return. After finishing the kefir, I dropped off a jar of my blend to Sperry.

Once I had that done, I returned to my photo-taking endeavor, at which point Iolanthe, Ano and Melekai's 11-year-old daughter, decided that she wanted to hang out with me, and to help me take photos. Io is very artistic, and she has a great eye for good photos, but she ended up taking almost a hundred photos with my phone, that I later had to go through, deleting most, and finding those that I wanted to use in these posts. After taking photos, I spent time with her jumping on the trampoline and swimming in the pool (green-water catchment tank). I really wasn't planning on going in the pool, but she was very convincing. By then it was beginning to get dark and cooler, so after playing in the pool with her for a while I went to take a shower, and then I attended the evening community logistics meeting from 6:30PM to 8:30PM. After the meeting, however, I didn't leave immediately, but rather ended up sharing a quite-long and enjoyable conversation with Nivah. Once we hugged each other and said 'good night', I headed back to the Flow House, to continue with catching up on my Hive notifications, which I did through most of the meeting as well.

I returned to the Flow House just after 9PM, to continue with catching up on notifcations, of which I had many. Due to my atypical-Monday experiences, I was not able to catch up fully on my notifications, only getting to within 14 hours of being fully up to date. I went to bed just about 12AM, and thankfully I did sleep well, waking up around 6:30AM, doing a round of token management, completing @benthomaswwd's @heartbeatonhive contest, catching up a bit more on notifications, and then getting out of bed just after 9AM to go make my superfood fire coffee, of which I gave Nivah a cup, as she loves it too.

It's now just after 12PM, so a great time to end this post, so that I can get to my afternoon round of essential Hive tasks, and hopefully more catching up on notifications, before leaving the Flow House in the later afternoon, to strain out kefir for my kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao blend, lead Sarah through the second practice session for my Energy Exercises, and then go to weed in the fenced garden with Sarah and a few other people. Since Iolanthe took so many photos yesterday on my phone, I don't have to take photos today, as I'll just use hers in this post's iteration tomorrow, as many were quite good. She's a budding artist. I deeply appreciate you all so very much! Until tomorrow! Forward, onward, and upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart. 

2.) Bring myself and my life back into balance, integration, and wholeness, and do regular integral practices. 

3.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again. 

4.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again. 

5.) Continue my work with Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, Bastyon, and other sovereignty-driven technologies, as well as learn relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute. 

6.) Get regular healing sessions with women flowing again. 

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power 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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