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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Today is going to be another busy day for me, with several tasks to be fit into not very much time, which means that I need to stay as focused and efficient as possible. Making sure that I get everything that needs to get done on Hive, while also doing my best to meet all the requests for my time and assistance from those here in this jungle community, from people in the larger Lower Puna community, and completing daily community/land work, is a very challenging endeavor indeed, and that's not even mentioning important things that I need and want to get done, like doing necessary work to recover and recreate my plant nursery and the gardens. I'm definitely feeling quite stressed around it all this morning as I write this. It's also very frustrating that the core lesdership here and I do not see eye to eye, and we're not at all on the same page, regarding now I should be spending my time, even after 6 years, which blows my brain.
Stress dramatically lowers my ability to focus, and my efficency, which means that I need to center and ground myself as soon as I can. I am deeply loved and appreciated at GaiaYoga, I know that, but I've just never resonated and flowed well with most of the core members that live here full-time. We just operate from such radically different perspectives, with very unaligned priorities. Up until now I've been able to carve out a way of living here that mostly works for me, but now there is pressure on me to make certain decisions, in an attempt to fit me into their box, which I'm not sure that I'm able or even willing to do. They want me to participate more in the various community meetings, events, and work, which I do appreciate, but I just wish that doing those things were more enjoyable and fulfilling for me (generally it's the opposite), and that some were at other times, as they strongly conflict with certain things (like writing these posts) that I do on Hive. I need to be able to flow in my day and in my life led by what is meaningful and inspiring to me, because that's what gives me the motivation to accomplish things, especially over longer periods of time.
Yes, this place is amazing and beautiful in many ways, but the dissonance that I feel with the predominante energy and core people here has always been very challenging for me, and that's not even including the notable inherent challenges to living off-grid in the jungle in far East Hawai'i. I am truly grateful for what GaiaYoga has given me, and what I've been able to experience here, but the things that bother and rub me the wrong way about living here are becoming harder to ignore or tolerate, and I can feel my own energies beginning to disentagle and diverge more and more from the energetic core of this community. I feel deeply purpose-driven now, and if my purpose does not align with that of the core people here, then that's a big problem for me, especially if they try to wrangle me in to doing what they want.
What this all means yet, I can't full say yet, but it seems probable that I may have to start looking for another place to live soon, which I have to admit is a pretty terrifying proposition. The one time that I made an attempt at living off-property did not go well for long at all. Finding people with whom I'm actually aligned seems overwhelmingly difficult. I'm very picky and discerning about energy and people, plus most people in regular society would consider how I choose to live utterly crazy. That's quite a bugger indeed.
As soon as I get things done on Hive, I need to go collect cow food as quickly as I can (I'll hopefully be able to pass this daily task on to others very soon), and then walk over to help my dear friend Lea on her land for a couple hours, as early as I can manage. I always look forward to seeing Lea because she's a wonderful human, and we get along very well. We also share the same or similar perspectives on a great many things, so conversations between us are very engaging and enjoyable. I feel like I want to talk with her about the recent difficulties that I've had living here at GaiaYoga, as I know that she'd understand. More aligned and resonant people like Lea are what I seek.
Yesterday, Wednesday, after wrapping up my Hive tasks, I prepared for my session with Riana (she's a Wednesday regular at the moment), which started on time at 1:30PM, and finished by around 5PM. Once Riana left (happy, grateful, and feeling good in her body), I stopped by the Landing to collect my jar of superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and I returned immediately to the Flow House, to dive into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done a little after 9:30PM, at which point I powered up my big chunk of BBHO (that I bought and saved for the month), wrote and published my post about it for BPUD, February BPUD - BBHO Powerup Day - 2,470.722 Powered Up!, and then after some asset management, scanning my X feed, and playing and experimenting with Grok 3 (Elon Musk's and X's home-grown and quite incredible new AI, which is available free to everyone) for too long, before finally making myself go to bed just before 1AM. I woke up just before 7:30AM, after having thankfully slept very well, doing more asset management, starting on this post, getting out of bed just after 8AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, and then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 12:45PM, so a very good time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a bit later in the afternoon, to take more photos for these posts, collect cow food, and then head over to Lea's to help her with her land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my entry for the Shadow Hunters Contest later this evening (I couldn't do it last night), and the next version 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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It's good to share your thoughts and challenges with understanding people like Lea your friend.
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It sure is, @chichieze, I very much agree! Thanks a lot! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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You're returned, my friend! Wonderful! Welcome back! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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Haha, I'm kind of back. I never really left... I still came everyday to vote...
But due to some events in my personal life last year I didn't have the energy or the desire to leave many comments or spend a lot of time on hive in general...
I'm not sure I'm completely back on track, but I'm already taking my first steps in giving tips to the usual suspects 😉
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