I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1308 - Giving My All, Juggling a Lot, and the Need for Balance - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, February 25, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As y'all know well, I'm completely committed, dedicated, and devoted to The We Are Alive Tribe and its success, and to Hive too, and what I'm building and growing here, and it receives a substantial amount of my time, focus, energy, and efforts every single day. I'm grateful that I've been able to carve out a way of living out here in the jungle that makes it possible for me to devote so much time to Hive and the We Are Alive Tribe, though I will say that part of this hyper focus, to the exclusion of almost everything else, is due to my life being still very imbalanced, because of my still-broken heart, and the fact that I stay mostly to myself, having very few close connections with people. Yeah, that's not great, and it hurts, but I work with what I've got, and I do the best that I can with it.

Even though my own personal life may not be very fulfilling much of the time, I find purpose, inspiration, motivation, and focus in helping others, online or off, and in creating amazing and beautiful things for people, which is exactly what I endeavor to do for all of you in We Are Alive Tribe, and I do so with gratitude. I feel the need in my life, however, for balance and wholeness again, as I've definitely taken a detour away from them for a while now.

It's been a precarious juggling act to do what I've done on Hive, and in the We Are Alive Tribe, so consistently, and over such en extended period of time. I've mostly been able to make it all work, which is what makes me very reticent to implement any notable changes in my life, because I don't want to disrupt my habitual flow which makes everything happen ever day. So putting focus on healing my heart, and reconnecting with people, has mostly not been a thing at all. I've been a very-focused jungle hermit for quite a few years now.

The need to make some changes, to begin returning to greater balance and wholeness in my life, continues to grow, however. I just want to make sure that I am still able to accomplish all of my important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks every day, which is what makes me feel very uneasy about such potential shifts in focus, even though I know that they are indeed necessary.

Honestly, I don't really even know how to stop the flow of what I do every day on Hive, Blurt, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, as it's all become such a deeply ingrained habit and part of my life. All I do know is that my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' endeavors are very important to me, and I refuse to let them fall by the wayside. They must be an integral part of whatever new balance comes into expression.

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I had that completed, I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, after which I went banana hunting across the property, in search of harvestable bananas (I found 2). After wrapping that up, I went to help Melekai and Becca to unload Melekai's new bathtub from her minivan into Thimbleberry, which was accomplished quickly. When my assistance there was no longer needed, I headed back to the other side of the property, to finally changed the oil in the generator, and then to heat myself up some good that I had in the fridge, and to return to the Flow House with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done quite early, by around 8:30PM, and after some asset management, and fiddling on X and Qortal, I went to bed by a bit after 10:30PM. I woke up by about 7AM, having slept fairly well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the new kitchen space, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12:45PM, so it's a great time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before preparing for a session that's scheduled for 1:30PM. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's incarnation 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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