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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
I want to express how incredibly grateful that I am to be working with the exceptional group of people in the Alive Tribe Core Team, Ben (@benthomaswwd), Rosyel (@iamraincrystal), Bjorn (@borniet), and Nathalie (@nathalie-s), as well as the wonderful fellows in Greater Alive Tribe Team, Wilson (@cursephantom), Hafiz (@hafiz34), and @edgerik, because it is an absolute honor, pleasure, and privilege to me. I also have the double joy of creating and developing the MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) (Meta-)Project with my Bjorn, who I consider a dear friend. I've honestly never worked with a group of people in such an easeful, fun, efficient, effective, and exciting way. It truly amazes me every day.
What makes this true, you might ask? Well, the simplest way that I can put it is that we all share the same vision, purpose, mission, intention, and goal on Hive and for the Alive Tribe, and because we have absolute trust in each other. There is also rock-solid commitment and dedication on everyone's part. That is huge, and quite rare, from what I've seen and experienced. As such, we're mighty excited for what we'll be able to create together. It brings tears to my eyes as I write this, just thinking about it. This easeful work flow is exactly the reason that we've been able to accomplish so much in the We Are Alive Tribe in the short time that we've been at the helm.
I have absolute faith in our project(s), because I believe in our team completely. Everything that I do on Hive, in the Alive Tribe, and in our MMB Project, is so that we all can thrive, and I know that this is true for everyone in the Core and Greater Alive Team. Each of us also seems to have abilities, capabilities, and skills that complement each other, which is utterly extraordinary.
Since we moved into the leadership roles that we now hold just after the middle of December, we've been able to get the @alive.chat challenges up and running again, the ALIVE tipping bot working once again, get the @heartbeatonhive daily curation and contest rolling again, get @thelevelupgame started, Ben also got his weekly Alive Tribe and Actifit curation going, and now we're about to restart the daily dividend payouts for ALIVE holders and stakers, as well as beginning to pay those in the Greater Alive Tribe Team who host/co-host Alive Tribe activities weekly in ALIVEM as a 'thank you' for their service (just so the community is aware, I suggested that Ben be paid in ALIVEM as well, since he runs the @heartbeatonhive daily contest, and @thelevelupgame, but he declined, saying that he was happy for it all to go to the tribe). That's pretty bloody good for just under 2 months! Guess what, we're just getting started! That's how we intend for the whole year to be!
We plan to make the We Are Alive Tribe one of the most active, engaging, fun, meaningful, financially-rewarding, and mutually-beneficial community on the Blockchain. If that sounds good to you, and you want to be a part of making it real, let's talk, and we'll make it happen, together!
Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, once I had finshed my Hive tasks, around 2:30PM, and I had intended to take photos for these posts first, and strain and blend kefir, but I wasn't feeling well (which is very rare), so I went to sunbathe on the trampoline on the Peanut Lawn for a while instead, which helped immensely. Since I wasn't able to get almost any photos taken over the past two day, it's essential that I take a good batch today, to cover tomorrow's post, and hopefully the one after that as well. After sunbathing, I got my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food. I finished that just before sunset, and while I had wanted to get into my original nursery again to continue sifting soil, there was not sufficient time, so I took a shower, stopped by the Landing to pick up my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and some food (pasta and ground beef) that Lizzie (who just returned to GaiaYoga) had left for me, and then I made my way back to the Flow House, to get into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done by a little after 10:30PM, and after some token management, and a scan of my X feed, I went to bed around 12AM. I woke up first just after 4:30AM, and unable to sleep due to excitement, I sent Bjorn a clarifying message about the payout script, and did some token management on my own account and on @aliveandthriving, before making another partially successful attempt at sleep. I woke up again around 8AM, still feeling that I needed a little more sleep, doing more token management, starting on this post, and then getting out of bed around 8:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee, and slightly later, to go milk Daisy with Jo. When we had that done, 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 and foremost focus on photography for these posts, straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), and then community/land work. 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.
