I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1225 - Our Witness Has Produced and Signed Its First Block, and an Aesthetic Tweak! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, December 4, 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 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: 17.03% ⬇️

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.102 USD ⬇️

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.992 USD ⬇️

ALIVE Price in SWAP.HIVE: 0.01527163 SWAP.HIVE ⬆️

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.001395 USD ⬆️

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 80.266.8 USD ⬇️

LTC/Litecoin: 80.345 USD ⬇️

Gold: 4,225.50 USD ⬇️

Silver: 58.65 USD ⬆️

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #149 (of all)/#112 (of active)/210.3K HP worth of votes ⬆️

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I'm happy to announce that our @aliveandmmb witness node has produced and signed its first block, which is quite an accomplishment for a witness still so low in the ranking! Block 101754501 was produced and signed by our witness yesterday at 16:40:42 UTC, and it was rewarded with 1.390 HP. That's pretty freaking sweet!

We've still got a long way to go to break into the top 20, but this is an important step in that direction, and its an excellent start indeed. Our witness also received another vote, which moved it up to the #149 (of all witnesses, including inactive)/#112 (of active witness only) spot. The more votes that our witness receives, the higher in the ranking it will rise, increasing the probability that it will produce and sign more blocks, which would then bring more votes, and further ascent. We're coming for you, @botlord!

Even with so many Hive projects and communities failing or going inactive, the We Are Alive Tribe is still going strong, and not only that, we're also actively building, expanding, and growing, which isn't so common as of late it would seem! All of you, our cherished 'We Are Alive Tribe' community, and your support, are why and how we do what we do every day, and as I say, we're just getting started!

Last night, after finishing all my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, I had the inspiration to aesthetically tweak my signature green Hive banners and dividers that I use in all my post. I loved everything about them except their sharp corners, so I fired up GIMP, and I went through the process of figuring out how to make the corners rounded.

It took me a bit, but in the end I was successful, and I really dig how they turned out. This is the first post in which I'm using my new rounded-corner banners and dividers, so let me know what you think about them! Also, if anyone would like these banners and dividers, either the original square-corner ones, or these new rounded-corner iterations, in a different color, just let me know, and I'd be happy to make them just the way you'd like!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little before 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I had a nice batch of shots taken, I went to Tutu's to collect a few food supplies for the Landing, then I made another round or my special spiced-and-seasoned popcorn, and after nibbling on that for a short bit, I got my machete and I did another good round of clearing along a sizeable swathe of one side of the second driveway. After clearing, I took a shower, collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks. I got everything done close to 9PM, which is when I had my rounded-corner inspiration, spending more than an hour getting my banners and dividers just the way I like them. When I finally had them successfully modified, I updated the template for these posts, to replace the square-corner versions, though since it was a bit of a tedious process, I saved updating my other post templates for another day. After I was done with updating the template for these daily posts, I did some asset management, then I went to bed around 11:30PM. I woke up around 6AM, having slept well, 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 11AM, so it's a fantabulous time to wrap this up, so that I may get 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 community/land work. 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

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Image created by @benthomaswwd

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and

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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.