I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1104 - The Social Is The Financial on Hive and Blurt - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, August 5, 2025

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 6 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

On Hive and Blurt (among a few others) the social and financial domains are inherently and intrinsically woven together and integrated into an elegant framework where the depth and strength of our social bonds and connections are directly reflected in our assets and income. Yes, some people do invest large amounts of external assets into Hive or Blurt, and not focus on human connections at all, but that is not the case for most Hivers and Blurtarians, where our social connections are what help us grow the most.

The people who authentically connect and engage with, and who offer their assistance and support to others over time are the ones that grow their accounts the quickest and the most. So many people come to Hive and Blurt for the promise of free money, not understanding at all that the social aspect is what truly boosts their growth the most. By lifting others, we are lifted ourselves.

Social interactions and relationships can't be faked on Hive or Blurt, so making posts, or comments on someone's posts, that don't connect with anything real or meaningful is shooting ourselves in the foot, and it's a very poor investment of our social time. The idea is to be authentic and real, and to find people with whom engagement is fun and meaningful.

Just look at the upvotes and comments on posts of those who have strong, deep, and wide long-term social connections and relationships, and who strongly support the community, to see the reality of this. Our relationships are our social equity on Hive and Blurt, that translate directly into our financial equity.

I've always done my best to be a good, trustworthy human on Hive and Blurt (and in all other contexts), to connect with people meaningfully, and to help and support those around me as much as possible, both on my own account, and in my role in the We Are Alive Tribe, and I can see that reflected in the slowly-but-steadily increasing upvotes on my posts and comments. I'm seeing more and more individuals and curation trails giving me regular and consistent support and upvotes, along with increasing payouts for posts and comments, which is wonderfully surprising, and for which I'm deeply grateful. On Hive and Blurt, we need each other to succeed, so don't neglect the essential human part of this, my friends.

Yesterday, Tuesday, after finishing up my Hive tasks by a little after 12:30PM, I got ready for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session started on time, flowed very well, and we ended it quite late, just before 7PM, after which I stopped by the Landing to collect some leftover food and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then I returned immediately to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I wasn't able to get through them all before I had to stop around 11:30PM, to do some asset management, a quick scan of my X feed, and then to go to bed just after 12AM. I woke up rather late, around 8AM, still feeling that I needed 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 after 11:30AM, so a fantastic time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, straining and blending kefir, then 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 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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