I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1443 - Gratitude, and Focusing on the Good Even Amidst Challenges - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, July 1, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Gratitude is powerful, and I know that from personal experience, though living here in this off-grid jungle intentional community for so long, I've found that my own gratitude has in many ways fallen by the wayside. Don't get me wrong, I truly am grateful to be able to live where and how I do, and to be able to do what I do in the way that I do it, but with so many assorted things in my life, and in this community, not flowing or being in a good state, and with all the host of things that go wrong all the time, maintaining an open, grateful heart is really not so easy. It's so much easier to focus on what's not working.

This is where mental and emotional discipline comes in, which is also something on which I need to work. Choosing to focus on the good, even when things are broken or not flowing, is exactly what allows for experiences to shift for the better. I know this, again from personal experience, but it honestly requires a fair bit of determination and focus. It's not ignoring the unpleasant things, but rather allowing them to be as they are, and focusing and acting on the good that also exists.

Even staying in a grateful mindset on Hive has been more challenging as of late, as there is so much not working, and seemingly falling apart more all the time, though of course even in its current state, there is still quite a lot of inspiring and exciting develop happing here. There are still committed and dedicated builders who love this Blockchain, and who are giving their all to support it. Yep, Hive has some serious issues, but it's also an incredible Blockchain Ecosystem.

Practicing gratitude, developing an attitude of gratitude, even in the muck, is probably one of the most important and transformative endeavors that we can do, and it's something that I need to bring back to the forefront of my focus. Yes, I want many things to change for me, but the current state of my life is far better than it could be, and for that I am indeed deeply grateful. Let the gratitude flow!

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by about 12:30PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session started rather late, because we got into another quite long conversation, but it went very well, after which I went to Wabisabi to make myself some food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, then heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I had almost double the number of notifications than has been the usual as of late, so I wasn't able to get through them all until about 11PM, and after scanning my X feed for a bit, I finally went to bed by about 12AM. I woke up around 8:15AM, quite late, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to Wabisabi to prepare my superfood fire coffee, to make myself some breakfast, and to collect another jar of my medicinal tea from the fridge, before returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:15PM, so it's a lovely time to wrap this post 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, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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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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