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 had quite an interesting and cool surprise yesterday when I saw my liquid HIVE balance jump by 16. At first I thought that I had perhaps won a contest, but alas, that was not the case. When I checked my layer-1 transaction history and my notifications, I saw that @reachdreams had sent me the HIVE as a part of an initiative called HIVE Advent, that was started by @bozz, to build a chain of good will and trust by sending 25 HIVE to one chosen Hiver, who then keeps 1 HIVE, and sends the rest along to another dear Hiver, and publishes a post about it, and on and on, until Christmas is reached, and the last Hiver gets the last HIVE.

Since I needed to publish a post about receiving and sending the HIVE along, and I don't have time today to write another longer post aside from this one, I decided to just do it here in my daily post. I love Hive traditions like this, and I didn't want to break the chain, so I'm happy to participate.

Since this is my daily post, I published in the Alive and Thriving community, though @reachdreams put his in the Ecency community, which is a good choice I'd say for those who are wondering where to publish their HIVE Advent post once they are chosen. I think that the community in which the post is published is less important than making sure to use the #HiveAdvent tag. Also put HIVE Advent Calendar Day ## in the title of your post, with the ## being consecutive numbers (today it was 14, and tomorrow's will be 15).

The other important thing to keep in mind is that the Hiver that you choose to send along the HIVE, after you keep one, must be someone who will be sufficiently active from the time s/he is sent the HIVE, to when s/he sends it off to the next luckily Hiver, and write his/her own post about it. This should also be an individual that you trust to keep the chain of good will going until Christmas day.

Thank you ever so much for trusting and choosing me, @reachdreams, I'm deeply grateful. The Hiver to whom I choose to send along the 15 HIVE is @okarun. It's now up to you, my friend, to create another link in this chain good will, trust, and fun! Choose someone that you trust, and who will be active and able to participate to send the HIVE on its way, after you keep one for yourself. Have fun!

Here are the rules from @bozz :

• Religion doesn't matter. It doesn't even matter if you celebrate Christmas, this is just something fun I wanted to do.

• Don't be a dick and keep all the HIVE for yourself. The idea is for you to keep one HIVE and then pass the rest on. Be sure you can trust the person you send this to before you send the HIVE.

• Try to wait a day before you send along the remaining HIVE. The idea is that by the time we reach Christmas we are at 1 HIVE left and the last person keeps that. If we blow through all the HIVE before we get to December 5th, that is going to be kind of lame. I mean, if it happens it happens, but let's try to keep it from happening.

• When you send the HIVE please put hive advent in the memo field.

• I don't want to mess up anyone's posting schedule, but try to write a post about when you send the HIVE. Please use the tag #hiveadvent and try to include these rules in the post so the next person knows what to do.

Yesterday, Thursday, it was rainy and cloudy all day here in the jungle, which was unfortunate because it was the last day that I had to take some photos for my entry in the Shadow Hunters Contest. It's not so easy to find good shadow shots when there is no sun. I was thankfully able to locate some quite nice ones up at the Flow House, before I left to go do community/land work, around 2:30PM. Since it was so rainy and wet, I didn't get too many photos for these posts, but at least I did get a few. The weather also wasn't super inspiring for working outside, so after collecting a wheelbarrow full of assorted foliage for cow-milking food during a non-rainy moment, I helped Braja at her place with various small tasks that she couldn't do herself. After assisting Braja, I went to the Landing to make some of my homemade seasoned and spiced French fries, and with those, and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand, I headed back to the Flow House, to write and publish My Entry for Shadow Hunters Community Contest/Show Me a Shadow: Round 351 - Rainy-Day Flow House Shadows, and to dive into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. There were so many notifications that I was not able to get through them all before I had to make myself stop, a little after 12:30AM. I did a quick round of token management, and then I went to bed around 12:45AM, way later than I had hoped. I didn't sleep very well last night, waking up just a bit after 6AM, doing a round of token management, starting on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk the cow with Hans. Hans came with a few of his housemates (David, Eris, and Riley), who wanted to see and learn how to milk the cow, Daisy. I wasn't sure how Daisy was going to react to having so many people around while she was being milked, but thankfully everything went smoothly, and they all got multiple turns milking. When milking was done, we said our good-byes, and I returned to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 12:15PM, so a marvelous time to end this post, so that I may get to few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first focus on some photography for these posts, and for my entry in the Reflection Hunters Contest, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until the next version of this post tomorrow! 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

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