I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1181 - The Flame of the Brotherhood to Reignite Hive's Fire - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, October 21, 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 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Ray (@raymondspeaks) over at the Brotherhood/BRO/LGN has been cooking up some very interesting things over the past few months. I first noticed it when I looked more closely into the daily @pyresoul HIVE payouts, which many of us unexpectedly began receiving. His words and his intention resonated a great deal with me, so I've kept a closer eye on what he's in the process of building. He published Litepaper Storm Alpha via @brofund yesterday, and I must say that I'm deeply intrigued, and I feel very much aligned with his intention, purpose, mission, and vision in this noble endeavor.

His idea resonates with me so much because, at its heartcore, it is very similar to what I'm intently working to build, in my MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) way, for the We Are Alive Tribe: a mutually-beneficial and mutually-supportive system of abundance, trust, loyalty, and goodwill, that makes it possible for us all to succeed and grow into a whole community of whales over time, to balance out the power dynamic on Hive. That sounds glorious to me, so Ray and his @pyresoul (firesoul) quest will indeed garner increasing support from me. The idea of some sort of possible collaboration between the Brotherhood and the We Are Alive Tribe also came to mind, as our two commununities' ethos, purpose, and mission do seem to be quite well aligned and notably compatible.

The daily HIVE payouts from @pyresoul go to HP delegators (30%), BRO and LGN holders/stakers (30%), and to positive engagement on the Brotherhood's Discord server (10%). The HIVE payouts to BRO/LGN holders/stakers is in addition to the usual daily and weekly HIVE payouts for those tokens, so the actual APR for having those assets in our wallets is quite high indeed (though I haven't run the numbers yet). So I receive daily HIVE payouts for being in 3 of those 4 categories at the moment, and I plan on popping into the Discord server more regularly, to see if I have anything meaningful and useful to contribute.

Not long ago, I did end up swapping 3 BRO for an equivalent amount of LGN, since for the same value, LGN pays out almost twice the HIVE that BRO does, though after reading the above-linked post, I don't think that I'll be letting go of any more BRO, as it's to become the governance token, with 1 BRO equaling 1 vote. I also now have more motivation now to increase my HP delegations to @brofi and @legionsupport soon.

My present plan moving forward is to increase my HP delegations to the two above-mentioned accounts, which gives me more BRO and LGN, when it becomes feasible, and to spend more time getting to know the Brotherhood crew, to see in what ways I may be able to meaningfully contribute. My Hive Power is growing pretty quickly now, though I still need a whole lot more of it for all the delegations (both direct and leases) that I want to give. As with anything, I'll get there a little at a time, with maybe some punctuated leaps here and there!

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-We Are Alive Tribe tasks, around 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and collecting coconut water and coconut meat from several younger coconuts to start another round of kefir fermentation. With those completed, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, after which I harvested a rack of bananas, and I did some more clearing with my machete in the front orchard. After a good round of clearing, I took a shower, headed to the Landing to make myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned ground beef, eggs, onions, amaranth leaves, longevity spinach leaves, olive oil, and sea salt), and after eating my fill, I collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with that in hand I headed back to Flow House, to begin my evening Hive-Blurt-We Are Alive Tribe tasks, and to catch up on my Hive notifications. I got everything done by around 10:15PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed just before 10:45PM. I woke up about 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 before 1:30PM, so it's a lovely time to wrap this up, so that I may get 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 photography for my posts, then on 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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