I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1005 - 9,500 HP Surpassed, and Alive Tribe Curation Trail Tweaked - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, April 28, 2025

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 6 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 finally crossed the threshold of 9,500 Hive Power this morning, a bit behind schedule, which often happens when the fiat price of HIVE goes up, as the APR for HP goes down in counter-balance. With the May HPUD coming up tomorrow (after 2PM in my time zone), I'll have a little under 50 more HIVE to power up for this round, which is a little less than last month, but still quite good, especially considering that all of it comes from passive income, contests, and staying in the top ten on the Ecency Leaderboard. The time is coming soon to do another mega-powerup, for which I'm still leveraging and growing assets, income, and liquidity, both on and off Hive. The liquid BLURT that I'm rapidly accumulating on Blurt has a strong potential to assist in this regard over the course of the year, for which I'm rightfully excited.

My passion (I've got many!) for synergistic asset leveraging and investing, that was born here on Hive, has grown to the point where I seem to live and breathe it now, with ever greater clarity and decisiveness in my investment choices, and increasing benefits coming from them. I'm still always exploring and experimenting as well, of course, which provides me with more information with which I can then make even better leveraging decisions. The deeper I go, and the more I learn, the more excited I become, but man, do I need a whole lot more liquidity and resources! Thankfully that's what I've been diligently and patiently building and growing every day, for a long time now, and across multiple blockchains and platforms.

In the Alive Tribe I'm now of course doing the same thing, and our assets, income, and resources continue to augment. Aside from frequently adding assets to a growing list of diesel/liquidity pools, increasing our layer-2 delegations, and strategically purchasing income tokens, I'm also constantly tweaking different aspects of Alive Tribe functionality, to make everything more efficient, effective, and useful, like post tags and the curation trail. The new post tags are beginning to pull in larger amounts of the tagged tokens, which gives me more assets to leverage. The curation trail, which I reconfigured about a month ago, has been working pretty well, though we still need to raise the HP for all community accounts presently in the trail, as well as for those accounts not yet in the trail.

On that particular topic, I'm happy to report that I added three new Alive Tribe accounts to the curation trail today, @aliveprojects, @iamalivechalleng, and @wearealive, as their Hive Power, while not great, is still within a useful range. That being the case, these three accounts are now also open for AP and HP delegations, for which weekly delegation rewards will be sent as well. So the Alive Tribe accounts which are now presently in the curation trail (- 1), and which are open to receive AP and HP delegations, and for which delegation rewards will be paid, are @aliveandthriving, @alive.chat, @aliveprojects, @heartbeatonhive, @aliveandsocial, @iamalivechalleng, @youarealive, and @wearealive. @thelevelupgame will receive upvotes if posts or comments are made, but it's not following the curation trail yet due to low HP, which will be rectified at some point soon.

The next big Alive Tribe task on my plate is getting the daily rewards for the ALIVE:ALIVEM pool going again, which will cost 100 BEE to reactivate the pool, and whatever tokens that we decide to add to it for the next round of rewards. We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. We need lots and lots more BEE, as it is an exceedingly useful token (it's the most important on Hive Engine), and for all sorts of different things. I don't yet have an ETA for this yet, but I'll just keep working every day to make it more feasible, one strategic step at a time.

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after wrapping up my Hive tasks, a bit on the late side again, around 2:45PM (Mondays are busy Hive days for me), giving my attention first to going to Tutu's to collect a few food supplies for the Landing, and to a little photography for these posts. When I had that done, I got a small spade and a bucket, and I went to salvage a Hawaiian hot pepper plant (a locally-adapted variety) that was languishing in the shade in the old and very jungly chicken pen. Once I had that potted up in my nursery, I did a thorough watering of all the plants there, as we haven't had any substantial rain for over two weeks, so everything in pots dries up quickly. Once I had that completed, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, after which I got my machete and cleared canegrass (a giant, very rapidly-growing grass from Africa) around my two (one died, sadly) cashew trees planted along the second driveway, near the Flow House. After finishing that to my satisfaction, I took a shower (I was super sweaty), then I collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to begin on my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I was still buried in notifications from the night before, and with soooo many new ones last night, I wasn't able to even come close to getting through them all, being still 18 hours behind even after hours of working to do so, before I had to stop a bit after 11:30PM, to do some asset management, and responding to my notifications on Blurt, before finally going to bed just after 12:30AM. I woke up around 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, getting out of bed around 7:30AM 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 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 bit later in the afternoon, to first focus oh photography for these posts, straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), 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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