I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1106 - 10,500 HP Surpassed, and a Path to 15,000 HP by Year End - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, August 7, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I didn't even notice until early yesterday evening that I had already past the milestone of 10,500 Hive Power, which was a lovely surprise, especially considering that I had only reached 10,400 HP with my last HPUD powerup the week before. Now I 'just' have a little less than 4,500 HP to go to achieve my year-end goal of 15,000 Hive Power, which is still a huge amount. Since we only have fewer than 5 months until the end of the year, I've got to start focusing some serious energy into making this happen.

The only way to do this with my assets within the Hive Ecosystem would be to liquidate my HBD in Savings, and pretty much everything in layer 2, including all my shares in diesel/liquidity pools, to swap and sell for SWAP.HIVE, which would then be sent to layer 1. Given how profitable and useful my layer-2 investments are, I'm not willing to do that, which means that my only viable options would be off-chain crypto assets that I've been growing, and fiat-dollar investments.

My most significant off-chain crypto assets are my holding of QORT on Qortal, which is presently equivalent to about 1,000 HIVE, and the BTC and LTC that I've been earning on a few faucet sites, which at the moment would only come to a few hundred HIVE. Getting those assets into Hive is another story, and I'm really hoping that it all goes smoothly. I have a reasonable amount of PKOIN on Bastyon as well, but I don't presently know of any way to get them into the Hive Ecosystem, since I won't use centralized exchanges.

While I had thought that making external fiat-dollar investments were off the table for the rest of this year, due to increased expenses, and having to catch up after spending a big chunk of money on a new computer and backup system, to my happy surprise I've actually been catching up on everything quite well, with a good amount of cash accumulating again, so I might just be able to do one or two fiat investments before the end of the year. That's not guaranteed, but it is indeed thankfully looking very likely at this point.

While I probably won't be able to do it all at once, two $300 fiat investments, spread out in time a bit, would do the trick I think, and that's feasible for me. I could probably actually do the first one now, which is pretty exciting. One way or another, I'm getting to 15,000 Hive Power before the end of the year!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, around 2:30PM, focusing first on some photography for my posts, then a little sunbathing on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn. Once I felt well sunned, I got my machete and did more clearing at various points around the Peanut Lawn, and along trails. After a good bit of clearing, I took a shower, then I went to collect more coconut meat and coconut water from a few younger coconuts, to prepare another round of medium to ferment kefir. With that done, I collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I was able to get everything done by just after 9:30PM, and after some asset management, and a scan of my X feed, I went to bed just after 12AM. I woke up around 7:15AM, having slept pretty well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 12:45PM, so a magnificent time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my other few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, straining and blending kefir, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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