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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
In my post yesterday I mentioned how I was going to attempt to make the new laptop that I had received (I was supposed to get one with a hard drive slot, but instead I got one that only has SSD slots) work for me, after having the idea come to me that it might be time to let go of how I thought things should be, and adapt to present circumstances by deciding to upgrade my method of backing up my three Arch Linux installations. The process took almost 24 hours to complete, partly because I goofed up on one of the steps (since I hadn't don't it in a while), so I had to start over, and because I had to modify my partion sizes due to a slight difference in capacity between the 2 SSDs. In the end I succeeded, and I'm happy to report that as of this morning I have Arch Linux, and my Qortal node, back up and running again. The timing is very interesting, too, because it was exactly one month ago today that my previous ASUS laptop died.
I'm very grateful that I decided to keep this laptop, because its an excellent machine, and because just by opening my mind to another possibility, I was able to make it work for me. Yes, I still need to buy an SSD cloner and severeral more 1TB SSDs, but the first major step and hurdle has been successfully completed, exceedingly thankfully.
This experience hit home an important lesson for me, namely that yes, having ideals and principles is excellent, and important, but maintaining an open mind, and being pragmatically flexible about how to accomplish things, is equally necessary, otherwise we lose our ability to adapt to changes. What I do on my computer is very significant to me, so I found a way, and it turned out working very well, and seemingly even better than before.
The expression 'adapt, improvise, and overcome' is highly relevant here, because that's exactly what I did. Usually I'll continue doing something in a particular way until doing so becomes so difficult that I shift my perspective, and modify or tweak how it's done. I just made another leap to another way of doing the same thing that I was doing before, and it went (mostly) smoothly, so I feel quite accomplished as I glance up at my new computer.
We should periodically ask ourselves what's important to us, why it's important, and if there are other useful, or perhaps better, ways of doing what we do. Often we get into the habitual pattern of doing things a particular way as an adaptation to specific conditions, and since conditions and situations change over time, it truly behooves us to keep ourselves open to considering other possible choices and options. They may just open whole new worlds of possibilities that never even crossed our mind.
Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing my Hive tasks, rather late, around 2:45PM, in part because it was raining, and also because I was engrossed in doing the above-mentioned computer work. The weather yesterday kept oscillating between sun and rain, with the rain being a bit more dominant through the day. Although conditions weren't ideal, I spent some time first on some photography for these posts, and once I had that done go my satisfaction, I cleaned the food dehydrator in the Landing, in preparation to make some salted dried avocado (it sounds odd, but it's delicious!), and then I got my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food. Once I had that done, I got the dry-goods order at Tutu's done, and then I made myself some food (spiced and seasoned mini beef patties, with pepper jack cheese, and a mix of honey and horseradish mustards) in the Landing, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand, I headed back to the Flow House, to get back to working on my laptop operation, and of course completing my Hive tasks and catching up on my notifications. Between Hive and my computer, I didn't get to sleep until about 12:45AM, later than hoped, but not than expected. I woke up about 5:30AM first, and I inadvertently got wrapped up in resolving an issue with partition cloning (due to SSD size variances), before going back to bed until around 6:30AM, at which point I did some asset management, started on this post, got out of bed around 7:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, and I finally returned to the Flow House just before 8AM to do more work on my computer, and to write this post. It's now just after 1:45PM, 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 little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for these posts, straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition of this post! 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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