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 7 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Well, I just blew past the milestone of 14,100 Hive Power this morning, which is right on schedule to when I was expecting it. So now I've 'only' got around 887.5 HP to go to achieve my year-end goal of 15,000 Hive Power, which is still formidable, but at the present rate of growth, quite doable indeed. I'll hopefully reach that goal within 9 weeks time.
Yesterday and today I've been watching the replay of the first day of HiveFest 10 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (it's over 7 hours long, so it's taking some time to get through), which I'm finding to be a fascinating endeavor, both because I very much appreciate seeing and hearing the real humans behind the Hive name, and because of all the information on the present and future developments in the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem. It's also nifty seeing Hivers that I know in the audience.
I honestly don't know whether I'll ever attend a HiveFest in person, since I'm not crazy about long air-travel trips, I no longer have a valid passport, and also due to the fact that I rarely don clothes and leave the jungle (I haven't left the Island since arriving over 7 years ago), though the idea does intrigue me quite a bit. There are several very exciting developments in the works that could have a huge impact on Hive, Hive's greater adoption, and Hive's place in the larger crypto world. Hive has a lot of notable challenges at the moment, but even with those, Hive's future looks very bright.
As many of you have likely already noticed, most or all Hive-Engine nodes are down again, due to another round of DDOS attacks. The most reliable node, and the one which works for me more consistently than all the others is herpc.actifit.io, though even that one is struggling hard at the moment. At least I was able to get my morning asset management done before Hive Engine went down for the count.
With the state of the Hive-Engine nodes presently, I'm not very hopeful about the success of the ALIVE-dividend payouts today, so I apologize for that. I really wish that there were more that we could do on our end. We'll just keep doing our best, and moving forward, come what may.
Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, quite early, by around 12:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and collecting more coconut water and coconut meat from several younger coconuts to begin another round of kefir fermentation. I also went to sunbathe on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn for a short while, while the sun was out. After the sun disappeared behind clouds again, I took a quick asset-management break up the Flow House, after which I harvested a rack of bananas that was ready, and then when it started raining, I cut and capped a new, and quite long ethernet cable in the Landing for Avi to use in the Bedouin. Once I had that done, I made myself some food in the Landing (a fried-cheese sandwich with pepperjack cheese, and horseradish mustard), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand(s), I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive and Blurt tasks, and to catch up on my Hive notifications. I paused that for a while because Seej surprised me by coming up to the Flow House for a visit, so I ended up talking and sharing photos with her for quite some time, until she fell asleep on my bed, and I got back to Hive. Even with the intermission, I was still able to get everything done on Hive and Blurt by around 10:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed around 11PM, after saying good night and good bye to Seej, as she was leaving GaiaYoga again the next morning. I woke up about 6AM, having slept reasonably well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee the Landing (I'm making it for myself and three other people at the moment), then returning to the Flow House to watch more of the HiveFest replay, and to write this post. It's now just before 12:45PM, so it's a wonderful time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my other few important Hive ana Blurt tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts (I'm just really hoping that the sun comes out), straining and blending coconut kefir, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version of these posts! 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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