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'm happy to announce that my dear friend and partner in our MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) Meta-Project, Bjorn (@borniet), and his equally brilliant wife, Nathalie (@nathalie-s), will be joining Ben, Rosyel, and me, in the We Are Alive Tribe core leadership team. Bjorn is the savvy fellow who got our ALIVE tipping bot up and running again, and who now maintains it on his own server, so he's already been assisting notably in our endeavor to bring the Alive Tribe back to life. Bjorn and Nathalie are both truly beautiful, multi-faceted, and versatile human beings, that I feel will be a perfect fit, and an excellent addition, to Alive Tribe leadership. Very warm welcomes, Bjorn and Nathalie!

I keep getting the strong feeling that 2025 is going to be a truly momentous and incredible year, for me, humanity, crypto, Hive, the Alive Tribe, and the MMB Meta-Project, and so much more, snd I have a great deal of excitement bubbling up inside me as of late. Bjorn and I will be spurring each other on as we work toward our shared year-end goal of reaching, and even exceeding, 15,000 Hive Power each. It's certainly going to take a good deal of work, cunning, and token juggling, but I have no doubt that we will be able to achieve this sizeable goal before the end of the year.

Bjorn and I have learned a lot from each other about investment opportunities and strategies here on Hive, which has allowed both of us to make some exceptional gains over the past year. This experience does and will inform us in our efforts to get the Alive Tribe self-sustaining and self-sufficient in terms of income and assets. Even our shared experience with the recent radical DRIP change gave us further clarity on what to do, and also what not to do, with a project. That is invaluable in helping us make both our MMB Meta-Project, and the Alive Tribe, ever better, and more successful.

My next Alive Tribe task is to finish the inventory of all the Alive Tribe accounts, and then, hopefully with Bjorn's help, to work toward creating a self-sufficient and self-sustainable income and asset flow for the community, starting with the assets that we presently have available. When such a system is fully set up and functioning, then the possibility of bringing daily dividend payouts for staked ALIVE moves back into the picture.

Diesel/Liquidity pools. I always knew that they were very useful, but just how useful finally hit home with me with the DRIP debacle. I'm going to be heavily investing in various pools over the next few weeks, and I believe that in doing so, I'll be able to far surpass the benefits that I was receiving from DRIP, and with fewer assets required. Investing in good diesel/liquidity pools for the Alive Tribe accounts is definitely in my plans, as I know that it will support the community greatly. Exciting times are afoot!

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after wrapping up my Hive tasks, just a little after 1:30PM, putting my focus first on some photography for these posts, which flowed beautifully, since the light was absolutely gorgeous, so I got lots of fanastic shots. After my first round of photo-taking, I strained and blended kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), then I sunbathed on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn for a short while, before chopping and dumping old and used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and then getting my machete to collect a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food. With all that done, I took a shower, then I ended up taking a few more photos in the exquisite golden-hour light, before heading to the Landing to make myself some food (a simple grilled-cheese sandwich), and with that in hand, back to the Flow House, to get into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. Yet again I had so many notifications that I wasn't able to get through them all before I had to stop to go to bed, way too late, at 12:45AM. For how little sleep I got, I actually slept reasonably well, waking up around 6:30AM, doing a round of token management, starting on this post, then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk Daisy with Jo. After milking, I made my way back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12PM, so a marvelous time to end this post, so that I may get to my other few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to first focus on photography for these posts, and then collecting cow food. I have plans to head over to my friend Lea's place after 4:30PM to help her transfer her data and information from her iPhone to her new Android phone, and to share dinner with her. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until the next incarnation of this post tomorrow! 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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