I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1255 - The We Are Alive Tribe Is Going Full-Steam Ahead into 2026! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, 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: 18.01%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.099 USD

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

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.06797105 SWAP.HIVE  

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00148560 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.223085 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.000319 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 91.207.3 USD 

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 82.125 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,336.00 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)/249.6K HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

It's a very rainy Sunday as I sit here writing this, and aside from writing this post, some of my own asset management, and my @aliveandthriving comment moderation, a good amount of time today will be spent focused on asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe. Sunday is the day that I usually do my thorough 'We Are Alive Tribe' asset management, as it's a day that I mostly take to myself, which I then give to leveraging and growing our community's assets. Income streams are multiplying and increasing nicely, but I've still have so far yet to go, as I slowly turn the We Are Alive Tribe into a financial and economic powerhouse.

This process is going notably more quickly now with the regular investments that Ben and I are making into building our financial infrastructure, which is something that we'll continue to do for the foreseeable future. The more we're able to flesh out our 'We Are Alive Tribe' economy and financial system, the more that it will benefit us all, and increasingly more so over time.

There are shaping up to be several very interesting developments in the We Are Alive Tribe over the course of this new year, and I'm excited for what we'll be bringing to the community. If you think that the We Are Alive Tribe is awesome sauce now, you ain't seen nothin' yet! We're going to the next level this year, my friends!

The more of us that choose to get involved, and to contribute in ways that work for us, the more quickly it will go, and the sooner that we'll all reap the benefits. We get a whole lot done on our own, even as busy as we are, but we could really use some help, as there's only so much time for us each to be able to devote to our 'We Are Alive Tribe' duties, though we definitely do our best.

Ben is presently working on some very cool things for the We Are Alive Tribe, that I know y'all will love, and I can't wait to share them, when the time comes! Each of us builds and fleshes out our community in our own special and unique way, which is exactly why we want more of you to join us, because we need your special magic, to help us build what we cannot by ourselves (at least not easily...lol!)! Bring your brilliance, dear friends!

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 1:45PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Upon completing that to my satisfaction, I felt inspired to make a batch of one of my special versions of popcorn in the Landing, which I ended up almost finishing with Brian and Alex. After popcorn, I collected a few tools, and I went to the fenced garden, on the other side of the property, to begin another monumental weeding job. I got a lot done, and there is so much more to do. Once I wrapped that up for the day, I cleaned up, I made 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 in hands, I headed back to the Flow House, to start my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by a bit before 9PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by just before 10:30PM. I woke up by about 7AM, having slept well, going to turn on the generator (since our solar-electrical system crashed in the early morning), returning to the Flow House to get my Qortal node back online, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then making my way back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1PM, 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, including my once-weekly thorough asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe, before leaving the Flow House, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on a few small community/land work tasks. 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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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