I live barefooted and naked, very close to Earth and Nature, in a 16-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. 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 learned the importance and power of gratitude over many years and a great deal of contrast. It never leaves me now, even in moments of frustration or sadness, and it lightens me, even when I feel heavy or heartbroken.
I mentioned in my last two posts that my heartbreak over the end of my relationship with Kaï, just before my birthday at the end of July last year, has been bubbling up and making its unhealed presence known once again. Along with that has been a very strong inner nudge (or slap on the face) to rebalance and make changes to what I do every day, including incorporating an integral practice.
The challenge with doing this, however, is that my time is already very full with what I do on Hive and in Arch Linux every day, with Hive taking precedence over pretty much everything. So I don't know yet exactly how I'm going to rearrange my time to allow me to do the things I'm wanting and intending.
My time today was taken up a bit more with a fair number of other things aside from Hive and Arch Linux, beginning in the morning, when I was making my superfood fire coffee, with a request from Ano to see what I could do for Sperry (one of the new people at GaiaYoga), who was experiencing sudden and unusual Intense pain in his right hip. I worked on him for a short while, maybe forty-five minutes, and while it didn't clear his pain entirely, he felt quite a lot better afterward, which is wonderful.
Being Monday, there were also the usual two meetings here that I needed to attend, the Leadership Council Meeting and the Community Logisics Meeting. The LC Meeting began only a half an hour after I had finished working on Sperry, so I didn't have much time for Hive catch-up or daily tasks until afterwards.
When the LC Meeting was finished, I helped Ano unload the new clothes dryer from his truck and move it to the drying area. With that done I returned to the Flow House to finally continue with my needed Hive catch-up and tasks, which I kept at until 4PM, with still a few things left undone.
The first land-work task when I left the Flow House was to check to see if the ethernet cable connection in Water's Space (a living space carved into the strawberry guava, up against the lava wall, that had been mostly unused for a few years now) was still functional. To my utter amazement, it was, which means that I'll be able to use it to run a new ethernet line in conduit up to my space at the Flow House, to give me a hardwired internet connection. This should be superior to the wifi signal I've been using from the Landing. I collected the conduit I could find and put it in Water's Space, in preparation to begin work sometime this week.
Once I finished that, I spent the rest of the time until the Logisics Meeting at 6:30PM, helping Ano do repairs on Jo(hana)'s house, after the intense wind storm that almost destroyed the Flow House weeks ago. When we finished that for the evening, I took a quick shower, then headed to the Logistics Meeting, which continued until almost 8:30PM.
With the meeting finally done, I went to the Landing to make food and strain out another round of kefir, which I used to make my kefir-honey-cinnamon-honey blend. When that was done, I returned to the Flow House, with food in hand, to dive into a quick Hive catch-up before writing and publishing my Index4Index Inspired Motivation: There Is Always Something for which To Be Grateful! post, and then beginning on this one.
Given thst I started quite a bit later than usual, as I type this it's already past 12:30AM, and I'm semi-falling asleep, so it's a rather good time to end this post for now. If I were to describe my state, other than being sleepy, it would be brokenhearted gratitude, which is OK for now. There are multiple people here (Ano, Harmony, Shakira, and even Iolanthe) who are wanting and imploring me to go off-property, for things like Sunday Funday at Kehena Beach, the Lawn, or Taco Tuesday at Cinderland (all places I used to spend lots of time). I still don't know how to do that yet and keep my Hive commitments.
In any case, I have to go to sleep now. Sleep is overtaking me. I deeply appreciate you all! Until tomorrow! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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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Jeje...gracias. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
If you asked me - which you didn't :P - I'd say that if you need more time for something for yourself, take that time from something you do for others, not from yourself. They can find someone else to do whatever you did for them. You can't find someone else to do you for you.
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Thank you for that @treefrognada! I'm not even sure about how to do that, as I live in an intentional community, where everyone contributes. I already take most of my time for myself, or should I say, Hive. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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Ah, well, technically anything you do for/within the community is for you then! So those things can't be given less time or energy. I'm sure you'll find a way to add what it is you want to do somehow though. There must be something, somewhere that feels less important. <3
Yep, exactly, that's true! Yep, that's the challenge...hehe. Yes, I'm a resourceful bugger, and once I reach coherent clarify, I'll make a shift! That's the process in which I've been involved for a few years now; getting clear about what is really important to me, and removing all that does not have meaning in my life, leaving only the essential. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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A broken heart will heal with time. Some need more time than others.
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It does, that's true. The greater the love, the longer it takes. This time feels different, though. My heart may not be open to another round of this. Thank you! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
Never say never, my friend.
Indeed. I'm working on opening my heart and mind to the idea again. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙