I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1450 - The Post that I Really Don't Want to Write - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, July 8, 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: 25.17%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0489 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.979 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.0181537 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.10875677 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00078449 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.173806 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001337 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 63,145.05 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 237.81 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 43..945 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,121.62 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 59.95 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #123 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#98 (among active witnesses only)/824.4k HP in votes/51 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Over the past 6+ months, and even more intensity since the We Are Alive Tribe lost its daily HIVE income from our sizeable BEE delegation to @bee.voter a few months ago, I've been looking closely at every conceivable way to restore our community economy to a sustainable place. Exceedingly unfortunately, with Hive's worsening economic conditions, and so many projects failing and folding, that has been an extremely challenging and frustrating endeavor. I've been wracking my mind, and looking into every possibility of which I can think, and all to no avail, as nothing comes even close to being able to replace our lost HIVE from the @bee.voter delegation.

We have notable holdings of DAB, DBOND, and now HSBIDAO (after swapping our remaining liquid HIVE for it the other day), and even an HP delegation to @ecency of over 1k HP, and none of it is even remotely sufficient to cover our weekly expenses of paying our HP delegators, and distributing HIVE in our daily ALIVE dividends. My brain and my heart hurt trying to figure out this seemingly insurmountable obstacle.

Even if I withdrew my 650+ HBD from Savings, which I've also considered doing, to swap for HIVE to power up on one of our community accounts to delegate, which would be somewhere around 13,000+ HP, it still wouldn't be enough. I've looked at every notable curation service available, and none of them offer sufficient HIVE, even for over 13k delegated HP, which is ridiculous to me.

So this is the post that I really, really, really didn't want to write. I've felt quite stressed, because I'm the one that set up the @bee.voter delegation, and from the very high weekly HIVE income, our daily and weekly HIVE distribution. With that income gone, what was at one point very sustainable, has become extremely unsustainable, and I have no feasible way to fix it.

We'll be able to distribute HIVE to our HP delegators, and in the ALIVE dividends, for maybe 2 months more, if that, and then we run out of funds, and everything into which I've looked, and that I've tried, to bring us back in the green, has been unsuccessful. I love the We Are Alive Tribe, and I have intense loyalty to this community, so I very much don't want to see it die. If our daily and weekly HIVE distribution stops, however, the market price of ALIVE will tank. I'm still searching for a way to turn this around, because I can't give up, but it's important for y'all to know where we stand.

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by around 12PM, I prepared for a session that was schduled for 1:30PM. The session went well, and we wrapped it up by a little after 5PM, after which I went to Wabisabi to heat myself up some food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by a little after 9PM, and after continuing to investigate ways to restore our community HIVE income, I went to bed by around 11:15PM. I woke up late again, about 8:30AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to do more research and investigation into possible ways to turn our community economy around, and to finally write this post. It's now just before 12:15PM, so it's a good time to wrap up this post, 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 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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