I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1254 - A Community Call for Deeper Involvement, and a Dungeon Cities Opportunity! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, January 2, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 18.19%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.098 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.005 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.06280605 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00147206 USD 

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.234185 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.000313 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 90,157 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 82.195 USD  

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,336 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 72.83 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #145 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#112 (among active witnesses only)/249.5k HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

In my post yesterday I mentioned that we (in the 'We Are Alive Tribe' core leadership) would very much appreciate it for others in our community, who love and appreciate the We Are Alive Tribe as much as we do, to join us in our endeavors to make it one of the best communities in the Hive Blockchain and Blurt Blockchain Ecosystems, either in a core-leadership role, or as part of our extended team. We've done quite well with are small, busy team over the last year, that's true, however with more of us, we could accomplish much more, and notably more quickly.

Ben (@benthomaswwd / @benthomasuk) wrote a post today about our community call for greater involvement, We Need You We Are Alive Tribe Plus Engagements On Hive 03-01-26, which I very much suggest that y'all read, and he's as full-steam ahead as I am in our determination to take the We Are Alive Tribe to the next level. To do that, though, we need you, our beloved community, to help us do it.

When I say that we want to take the We Are Alive Tribe to the next level, I very much mean it, because it's our desire and intention to create, build, and grow an abundant, sustainable, and thriving decentralized 'We Are Alive Tribe' community financial system and economy, that will endure and grow through time, even beyond us. That's no small task, but we know what's possible, and we're going to make it happen. So expect a good bit of growth and development in the We Are Alive Tribe in 2026, and please unite with us in making it a practical reality. We have a lot to build and do, and we need more of you to help us to accomplish it all.

We need people to host other weekly @alive.chat challenges, to do community curation and comment moderation, perhaps to publish a weekly or monthly 'We Are Alive Tribe' News-and-Update post, to host a recreation of the Saturday Savers Club (it doesn't have to use the same name) which recently ended, and to man other new projects, challenges, contests, or post series. This is community infrastructure that we're building together, so if you feel that something would be useful, important, meaningful, or fun, let's talk about it and see what we can do to give it some focus and energy. Just remember, we are not bound by what was, or by what is, so bring your ideas, your passion, and your beautiful selves, and let's co-create some really cool things together this year that will benefit us all.

Before I go today, I wanted to mention an opportunity that's presently available for a newish Hive game, Dungeon Cities, which is a dungeon-crawling, monster-slashing RPG (Role-Playing Game) with an in-game token, DRUBBLE, which can be traded on the market. I don't have much time for games usually, but I've always loved RPGs like this, so I'll likely be exploring this one. As to the opportunity, the first 20 people to comment on this video, Dungeon Cities First Look: Up to $100 FREE in Splinterlands Collab!, and use the referral link posted there, will receive a free game key worth $5, to get started. There are a few new and interesting games and projects recently, and I'm looking forward into exploring them more closely, when I have the time that is...lol! Let's have some fun, and make 2026 the We Are Alive Tribe's best yet, my friends!

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, a bit late due to lots of rain, by around 2:30PM, completely skipping photography for my posts, as the the rain just kept coming down, without stop. With such a rainy day, I was happy to get a request from Melekai to do a little tech work in the Casbah, cutting one long ethernet cable into two of equal length, putting ethernet heads on them, and lastly toublehooting and fixing the internet connection problem on her laptop. Everything was accomplished successfully, after which I went to the Landing to make myself some food (mini spiced-and-seasoned burgers, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, and Dijon mustard), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee on hands, I headed back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by a bit before 9:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed, nice and early, by 9:45PM. I woke up just about 7AM, 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 1PM, so it's a great time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other 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, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version 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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ALIVE:SWAP.HIVE

and

ALIVE:ALIVEM

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