I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1217 - The 'We Are Alive Tribe'-MMB Witness Is Alive and Needing Your Support! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, November 26, 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 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, our 'We Are Alive Tribe'-MMB Witness node, @aliveandmmb, is now up and running, thanks to our backend coding-and-hosting guru, Bjorn (@borniet). I logged into the account last night, both on PeakD to add a cover image and a witness description, and via a witness configuration interface, to see what parameters could be set there.

For the moment I've set the HBD APR to 15%, though knowing what I know now about the Hive Debt and HIVE inflation, and after reading @threespeak's recent post about the situation, How to Reduce Hive's Inflation Problem - Our New DHF Proposal Voting Criteria, HBD APR, and a Proposed Value Plan S.O.P, I'm thinking that a good balance between what it is now at 15%, and the 6% APR that is being proposed in that post, would be about 12%, which is likely to what I'll change it soon for @aliveandmmb. None of us like seeing our income decease, but it's also absolutely necessary to operate within sustainable parameters for our Blockchain to continue and succeed moving forward.

The next important thing that I need to do is to write and publish our witness-announcement post, which hopefully I'll be able to do within the next few days. Beginning to promote our new witness is also at the top of the list, so I'll be adding witness-vote links to the footer of all of my posts for our witness, and @borniet's @botlord witness, which will be joining the witness-vote link for @bradleyarrow's @thebbhproject witness that's already present.

Since our new @aliveandmmb witness is a collaborative shared venture between the We Are Alive Tribe and the MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) Project, that @borniet and I run, and because Bjorn is also hosting and doing backend maintenance for our node, we've come to a 50/20/20/10 split for allocating witness income, so 50% for the We Are Alive Tribe, 20% for our MMB Project, 20% for Bjorn to cover hosting and maintenance costs, and 10% to grow @aliveandmmb. The higher in the witness ranking that @aliveandmmb rises, the more we'll be able to build and grow the We Are Alive Tribe, and the more that we'll be able to share with the community, over time, so go vote!

Our witness node is another big step for the We Are Alive Tribe, and one that may indeed mark a new chapter for our community. Now we just need to get it into the top 20 (@thebbhproject and @botlord too), which is a rather formidable endeavor. I believe that we can do it, though, and I'll do everything I can go make it happen.

Yesterday, Wednesday, due to a miscommunication, the session that was scheduled for 1:30PM had to be cancelled, so I ended up leaving the Flow House just after 2:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, to a few small tasks that had come up, and to collecting coconut water and coconut meat from several younger coconuts to begin another round of kefir fermentation. Once I had all that done, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, after which I walked around the property to hunt for harvestable bananas (I found two nice racks), which I finished just as it began to get dark. After banana hunting, I stopped by the Landing to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with that in hand, I headed back to the Flow House to start with my evening Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks. I got everything done by a little before 9PM, and after some asset management, and taking a closer look at our new witness node, I went to bed by a little after 11:30PM. I woke up around 7AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to writer this post. It's now just after 12:15PM, so it's a wonderful time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, on straining and blending coconut kefir, then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

Come join us in the We Are Alive Tribe on Hive and on Blurt!

Image created by @benthomaswwd

Support @bradleyarrow's Witness Node

Bradley's tenaciously committed and all-in on Hive for the long haul (just like me!), and the higher his witness goes in the ranking, the higher the weekly BBH and BBHO dividend payouts will be! Vote Here!

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