I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1147 - Hive Project Ponderings - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, September 17, 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've had a whole lot of experience with assorted Hive layer-2 projects in my 4 years in this Ecosystem, and I joke about it, but it's true, but I've learned so much about how to run a project by seeing and directly experiencing all the different ways not to run one. There is positive contrast as well, of course, where project leaders go above and beyond expectations, but the negative contrast hits harder, very quickly informing me on what not to do.

I've very much appreciated and supported the LOLZ Project for pretty much my entire time on Hive, but with the recent news of the ending of LOLZ farming rewards at the end of September, the possible closure of the LOLZ Project entirely by 2028 (with 50% of layer-2 token assets and HBD from savings going to the top 125 holders and stakers of LOLZ and FUN), and how the token dynamics have been changed, I'm left with kind of a bad taste in my mouth. It creates a strong incentive to buy LOLZ, but since most of the benefits will be going to the top 125 stakeholders, it will likely create the situation where most people not in the top 125 will sell their holdings, or if they're close to or in the 125, to buy more, so any LOLZ-holder who is not in the top 125, and who does buy a huge amount of LOLZ, is kind of left out in the cold, or that's how it appears at least, which definitely rubs me the wrong way.

I'm not so much concerned for me, since I'm #9 on the LOLZ richlist (@aliveandthriving, @borniet, and @hafiz34 are also there with me), but rather for the vast majority of LOLZ stakeholders and project-delegators who are far from the top 125, as to me it seems that their support for the LOLZ project is not being reciprocated. First rule of project management, always support those who support you.

I'm still deciding how to proceed after the recent LOLZ news. Selling doesn't seem like a good option given my stake and holdings, but I'm not really into the dynamic of needing to buy or swap for LOLZ to continue riding in the richlist. In terms of the We Are Alive Tribe, most of our daily LOLZ income will soon end, so I need to come up with something with which to replace it in the daily dividend payouts. That might be a challenge in the time frame with which I have to work.

Everything that I, and we, have learned about how to, and how not to run a project, goes into our loving endeavors for the We Are Alive Tribe, so that we can correct perceived mistakes, and to amplify exceptional practices, in everything that we do. You have the promise of everyone in the Alive Tribe core leadership, that we've got your back, we're not going to leave you out in the cold, and we're in this together, as we build a community that is good for all of us.

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up my Hive task by around 12:30PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session started slightly late, it went very well, and we wrapped it up by just after 6:15PM, after which I stopped by the Landing to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with that in hand, to head back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done by a bit after 11:30PM, and after some asset management, and a scan of my X feed, I went to bed around 12:15AM. I woke up just before 6AM, having slept 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 after 12:15PM, so it's an excellent 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 some photography for my posts, straining and blending kefir, then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration 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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