I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1482 - Monday Mental Meanderings - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, August 9, 2026

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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 27.40%

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Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #123 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#95 (among active witnesses only)/832.3k HP in votes/41 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I woke up feeling a bit like a log this morning, with a dull pressure in my heads, not really a headache, but just a diffused, uncomfortable pressure. I went to lay in the sun for a short bit up on the lava, and that did help. Sunshine always makes me feel better. Aside from that, I don't have any particular inspiration around what to discuss today, so this post will likely be more of a mental meandering.

35,000 Hive Power is coming very soon, definitely before the end of the week, and with it another significant milestone will be crossed. Reaching 40,000 Hive Power before the end of the year also looks very likely with my current rate of HP growth. This increasing HP will come very much in handy for upcoming delegations.

Rebuilding the We Are Alive Tribe HIVE income streams continues at a steady pace, though still not as quickly as I'd like. We should pass 150 HP delegated to Bradley, @bradleyarrow, today, and with it our income from him is approaching 0.05 HIVE daily. Nope, it's nowhere near a useful range yet, but it is definitely still growing fairly quickly regardless.

I'm still waiting for the notably-increased DAB income on my own account before I can start loaning some of it to the We Are Alive Tribe, which is also taking a bit longer than I'd like. It's based on my staked DBOND, which is increasing at a pretty solid rate, though there is definitely a lag before that translates into more liquid DAB each week.

Our two delegations of 1,000 HP each from @aliveandthriving and @youarealive to @steembasicincome is pulling in a fair amount of HSBIDAO every day, with that also compounding based on our HSBIDAO holding on @aliveandthriving, which is now just about to 1,043, in addition to the HSBIDAO in the pools on that account. HSBIDAO is among the best assets to acquire and grow at this time, and we've got a very good start. Well, I don't seem to have meandered all that much today, but you get the idea of where most of my focus on Hive is these days. I just wish everything would go a lot more quickly.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my more-numerous Sunday Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just before 3PM, heading first to La'a Pue'o with Avi for him to show me how to use Claude Code. We were deeply involved in that for a good while, after which I went to help Braja with a couple small tasks at her place. Once I had that done, I headed to the Flow House with my superfood fire coffee to get as much as I could done on Hive, before pausing to go prepare and share a final meal with Avi and Becca (at Becca's request), who were both leaving the next day. After our delicious meal, and saying my good byes to them, I made my way back to the Flow House to get back to Hive. I got through all of my notifications by just after 11PM, and after scanning my X feed for a short while, I went to bed by a bit after 11:45PM. I woke up by around 8:15AM, feeling that I still needed more sleep, and feeling like a log, heading to Wabisabi to prepare my superfood fire coffee, then returning to the Flow House to prepare my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update to write later, and to begin on this post. It's now just after 12:45PM, so it's a very good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend 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 some photography for my posts, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation of these posts!Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2026 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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