I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #444 - Fork and Figure It Out! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, October 14, 2023

I live barefooted and naked, 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. 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I begin this post I'm listening to the Sunday live CTTP (Community Token Talk Podcast) on X Spaces, with @theycallmedan and @starkerz, KYC quietly being implemented by web2.5 soy teams, hosted on the @3speaktv account there, something I've been enjoying doing on my Sunday morning lately. Their discussions are always very interesting, inspiring, and motivating, because they highlight just how differently, and better, Hive does things from the vast majority of other blockchains. I definely recommend listening to it! In their conversation today the term, 'fork it and figure it out', was mentioned, triggering deep laughter from me, because that's exactly how Hive was born, and what we've been doing here for the past three and a half years!

To counter a hostile takeover of the Steem blockchain, the loyal community forked the code, giving rise to our Hive Blockchain. As the community has grown, technology has been continually developed, and we've adapted and improvised when faced with challenges and obstacles, we've been forking the Blockchain code, and figuring out the best, most elegant, most efficient, and most effective ways to do...everything, ever since!

It's exactly for that reason that I have complete belief, faith, and trust in Hive, and this incredible community, because we have overwhelming love, passion, commitment, and dedication for Hive, and I know without doubt that we will successfully face and surmount any and all difficulties that we face! Even if the masters of the desperate-and-dying slave system made Hive 'illegal', and removed Hive domains from the 13 ICANN-controlled Root DNS servers, effectively making them disappear from the internet from the perspective of most people, I know that the Hive community of developers would resolve even that critical point of attack (likely by beginning to use community-based alternative root DNS systems like OpenNIC and/or Handshake, or creating a dedicated Hive DNS-resolver app).

'Fork it and figure is out' is the beauty and power of free-and-open-source software, because we the people have the power and the freedom to find our own solutions and ways of doing things. It is community-based self-responsibility and self-determination - sovereignty - in the digital realm, which is the only way forward that is actually good for humanity. Fork it and figure it out!

I've gotten the habit of doing my most essential Hive tasks first, and then leaving the rest for the evening, fairly well set now, which is allowing me to spend more time doing needed work on the land. Yesterday I was able to wrap things up and leave the Flow House by around 3PM. I walked around the property, in the lovely late-afternoon sun, taking photos for this post, before diving into work. Once I had that done, I helped Ano carry the 12-foot orchard ladder down to his nursery on the other side of the proporty, to help him fix some sagging shade clothes. While there we also did a bit of heavy prunning on some unruly trees, and walked around the nursery talking about other bamboos for me to propagate.

When I left Ano's nursery, I went to the Landing to focus on cleaning the refrigerator there, which took me about an hour. A clean fridge always feels good! When the refrigerator was done, I helped Ano unload some coconuts from his pickup truck after his round of Friday cocoing, and then we loaded it to get it ready for Sunday market. After finishing work, I took a shower, got a full propane tank from Tutu's (the one in the Landing ran out), made myself some food, got my kitten friend some food, then I headed back to the Flow House to jump into my evening round of Hive tasks and catch-up, which I was able to finish quite early again, before 10PM. I stayed up until around 11:30PM, exploring good (valid) news sources on X and doing some token management on Hive. I slept pretty well, and I woke up later than usual, around 7:30PM, beginning a quick round of Hive token management, and finishing up one Hive task left from last night, before finally getting out of bed around 8:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee.

It's getting close to 12:30PM here, so it's a very good time to end this post, so that I can get to my afternoon round of on Hive. Today I have to be a bit more thorough in the afternoon, because being Sunday, I have my giant Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update to compile and write later in the evennng. I really need to start writing it earlier, as it takes so long, and I don't want to be up until the wee hours of the morning finishing it again. I may try to get some land work done in the late afternoon, but it just depends on how much I can get done on Hive in the afternoon. I deeply appreciate you all! Until that post tonight, and the next incarnation of this post tomorrow! Onward and upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.