I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1282 - 16,500 HP Surpassed, HPUD Tomorrow, and the Paucity of 'We Are Alive Tribe' Official Posts - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, January 30, 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: 19.46%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.078 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.954 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.05453178 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00128446 USD 

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.136399 USD 

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0002703 USD

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BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 485.01 USD 

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 57.745 USD

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,894.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 85.33 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #140 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#110 (among active witnesses only)/276.7k HP in votes/41 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Much to my pleasant surprise, I crossed the threshold of 16,500 Hive Power yesterday afternoon, after receiving the rewards from a strongly-upvoted post. That would suggest, especially with the boost from my upcoming HPUD powerup this evening or tomorrow morning, that I should exceed 16,600 HP before the end of this coming week. Even with donating a portion of my post rewards to 2 'We Are Alive Tribe' community accounts, my HP growth is still going strong, and accelerating.

Since I've had such a notable hit to my daily and weekly HIVE income over the last several months (the We Are Alive Tribe, too), the amount of liquid HIVE that I have to powerup each month for HPUD has definitely dropped quite a bit. This time around I'll have around 40 HIVE ready to go, which is definitely not much, but every little boost helps. I'm aiming for 25,000 HP before the end of the year, which I think is very doable, especially with very low HIVE prices, and subsequent increasing HIVE inflation.

It came to my attention again today that we really haven't published many official posts for the We Are Alive Tribe since taking over the reins from Erik over a year ago, focusing instead on rebuilding, building, and implementing new ideas behind the scenes, while sharing what we're doing, and what we're planning, directly with all of you the community in personal posts, like this one, though not in more official posts, intended for the greater Hive community. I realized that because of this, many people in the larger Hive community had no idea that our project, community, and ALIVE token, were even still active and alive.

Part of the reason for this is that we want to have solid, robust, and reliable systems in place before we make official announcements to the wider Hive community, with the other main reason being a lack of time to write them, since all of us are quite busy, and we're juggling a lot as it is now. Having some updated official posts for the We Are Alive Tribe would be a very good thing, however, so this may indeed need some focus.

With that in mind, I'll let this idea percolate in my mind over the coming week, to see what comes to me as being essential or important to share and clarify. The We Are Alive Tribe is reaching a stage where reaching out to the greater Hive community may indeed be quite beneficial, and clear and updated official posts are an important part of that outreach. We really need more people involved, both in the core leadership, and in our extended team, who would be able to write and publish these official posts, because otherwise that task generally falls into my hands to accomplish, which I'm happy to do, but yeah, time...lol!

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. With that mostly completed, I attended to a few small tasks, like chopping and dumping bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and tidying the area up a bit, then going on a banana hunt around the property, looking for harvestable bananas (I found 3). Once I had that completed, I took a shower, made a quick food-supply run to Tutu's to restock the Landing, and then in a moment of inspiration, I made another batch of my special spiced-and-seasoned popcorn, on which I nibbled as I made myself some proper food (mini spiced-and-seasoned beef burgers, on olive-oil-toasted and, 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 begin my evening Hive tasks. Amazingly, and much to my relief, I was finally able to get fully caught up on my notifications last night, by a little after 10:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed a bit too late, by around 12:15AM. I woke up quite late, around 8AM, still feeling that I needed a little more sleep, 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 12:45PM, so it's a lovely time to wrap this up, so that I may attend 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 some photography for my posts, possibly straining and blending another round of coconut kefir, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my HPUD post tonight or tomorrow morning, and the next manifestation of these posts tomorrow afternoon! 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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