I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1152 - 4 Years in The Hive Blockchain Ecosystem Today - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, September 22, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As of today, September 23, 2025, I've been actively engaged in my endeavors of connecting with, and supporting my fellow Hivers, building, and growing in the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem for 4 years now, or 1,461 days total. That's incredible to me. I saw something very special in Hive when I first arrived here. I found myself enthralled by the community-based sovereignty-driven technology, as well as by the extraordinarily elegant financial system, and I've been hooked, all-in, for the long-haul ever since. Hive fit me, like a lock and key, like no other technological and social framework ever had before. It clicked for me, and I just got it. I perceived incredible actuality, and mind-blowing potential, in this exceptional Blockchain.

Over these past four years I've worked to leverage and grow my assorted layer-1 and layer-2 assets as quickly as possible, to help and support as many people and communities as I've been able, and to build a mutually-supportive community in the We Are Alive Tribe. It's been sad to see so many people that I've known leave, especially those that were targeted into oblivion by abusive downvotes. Even with that, I continue moving forward, no matter what. My commitment, dedication, determination, and relentless tenacity is what has brought me to where I am today, and I'm overwhelmingly grateful for the assistance, help, support, collaboration, kindness, generosity, and frienship of so many dear Hivers.

After 4 years, I find myself with 13,773 Hive Power, 549.213 HBD in Savings, and a reputation of 71.91, which is pretty good overall, and even though I know that all of those could indeed be better, I am very thankful for what I've been able to achieve in the time that I've had. What does 4 years of intense activity and engagement look like in terms of numbers? Well, honestly they still blow my mind. I've published over 3,000 posts, I've made over 80,000 comments, I've received over 85,000 replies, I've given over 200,000 upvotes, and I've received 135,000 upvotes. I've also published 1-3 posts, every single day, since February 20, 2022.

Among other things, Hive turned me into a writer, a photographer, a synergistic asset-leveraging investor, and a community leader in the We Are Alive Tribe, all of which leave me in astonishment to this day. That's one of the beautiful things about Hive, it provides us innumerable opportunities to go outside our comfort zones, and to discover and explore something new.

Up until now I've made 2 external off-chain crypto investments into Hive, totaling about $2,600, and 3 external fiat investments, totaling around $1,000, so I've invested about $3,600 into the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem, and I intend to continue doing so for as long as it's feasible. Hive is a compounding interest and exponential growth machine, and I'm leveraging that ever more strongly, and in more diverse ways all the time. While Hive does have some notable issues and problems, it's present actuality and future potential is still extraordinary. I love and believe in Hive, and it and its community will always have my undying support.

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, around 2PM, going to sunbathe on the trampoline for a little while first, since I still had a good amount of photos taken for my posts (I did get a few more later in the afternoon). After getting my fill of sun, I got my machete and did more clearing along the second driveway, near the Flow House. When I had another good area cleared, I went to chop and dump bad/old coconuts at the upper coco bar, and to tidy up the area a bit. Once that was done, I took a shower, I went to Tutu's to get a couple food supplies for the Landing, and then I dropped a package off to Soozi. Just before sunset, I stopped by the Landing to eat a little leftover food, and to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with that in hand, to make my way back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I had to pause that for about 2 hours to go attend the Monday community logistics meeting down at Tutu's. Once that was done, I headed back to the other side of the property to the Flow House, to get back to Hive. Even with 2 hours in the meeting, I was still able to get everything done by just before 10PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed just after 10:30PM, wonderfully early. I woke up around 6:30AM, having slept very 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 10:30AM, so it's a fantabulous time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, and then 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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