I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1002 -, Reciprocal Asset Leveraging, and an Apology to ALIVE Delegators - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, April 25, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I want to apologize to those of you who delegate ALIVE to our community accounts, as I forgot to transfer the 500 ALIVE from @aliveandthriving to @aliveandsocial before the delegation payouts, so all but two payments failed. I juggle a lot, and I don't write enough down to keep things in my mind, but I still can't believe that I forgot. I promise to make sure that this sort of thing does not happen again. We'll do a double payout for the next round, to catch everyone up, of course.

As y'all know, I talk a lot about asset leveraging, because, well, it's become quite the passion for me, I'm getting good at it, and I want to share what I've learned with my fellow Hivers, who may not yet be aware. As the saying goes, 'knowledge is power', and I want to empower all of you to easily do what I do, in your own unique way. Awareness brings understanding, and understanding brings greater capacity. Because our individual success on Hive is so intrinsically and inherently intertwined and interconnected with our fellow Hivers, by helping you, I help myself as well. I want us all to #ThriveOnHive.

Maximum reciprocal, or mutual benefit, is the idea and principle that underlies and informs everything that I do on this Blockchain (or any other blockchain), and it's what I want to co-creare with others, because with this Maximum Mutual Benefit being our guiding star, everyone who is a part of it will thrive. Mutual, or reciprocal support and leveraging, is how we can all grow here, and even between blockchains, beautifully well.

I'm applying this reciprocal asset leveraging and support to how I'm beginning to grow and build on Blurt also, where I've been doing astoundingly well. In the 18 days since creating an account on Blurt, I've grown to 1,440.985 Blurt Power, and 444.679 Liquid BLURT (used for transaction fees), with a delegation of 5,000 BP. I did lose quite a bit of liquid BLURT to transaction fees, especially when having to edit posts, and I sent 10 BLURT (5 BLURT each) to @swap-blurt and @graphene-swap, as I mentioned yesterday, as a part of my testing of those cross-chain swapping services (I can say clearly that @blurt-swap does appear to be defunct, as I never received any SWAP.BLURT, while @graphene-swap works great), so the above amount of liquid BLURT is just where it is at the moment, because it changes quickly. Basically, I'm doing so well on Blurt with republishing my Hive posts (with the original Hive source), that I'll soon be able to begin periodically sending some of my liquid BLURT over to Hive, to add into various SWAP.BLURT pools, which will speed my growth on Blurt by providing me with daily BLURT payouts, which will then allow me to boost my liquidity leverage on Hive even more (and on and on). This is reciprocal cross-blockchain asset leveraging, because it gives me the ability to strongly grow my base of assets, income, and resources, on both blockchains. That is a very good thing, because I'll be using my rapidly-growing asset base to support and help lift both my fellow Hivers here on Hive, and my fellow Blurtarians on Blurt.

Between certain recent strategic investments, like the XV token, AI-bot trading of HIVE-HBD, and now how incredibly well things are flowing on Blurt, I'm beginning to feel a buildup to some major leaps in growth on both of these sibling blockchains, and I've gotta say, it's really, really exciting! I'm deeply grateful to the Hive and Blurt communities for assisting and supporting me to the degree that they have, as none of this would have been possible without you! Thank you!

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, later than usual, a little after 3PM, focusing first on photography for these posts. When I had a nice batch of shots, I went to sift another 20 gallons (4 5-gallon buckets) of soil for my nursery, which was much needed, as I've been going through it quickly with all the repotting and up-potting that I've been doing lately. When I had that done, I went to collect a few small plants from Tutu's garden, that I had discovered while weeding there yesterday, some gotu kola and the seedling of a hybiscus, and then back go my nursery to pot them up. The diversity and numbers of plants in my nursery are growing fast, and I'm running into a bit of a space issue, for which I'll need to find a solution soon. After working in my nursery, I decided to go for a walk a short way down our jungle road, to enjoy (and photograph!) the gorgeous evening light, after which I headed to the Landing to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then back to the Flow House, to first finish my search for a good SSD cloner and SSDs, to replace my old laptop backup system, which thankfully I did successfully, to dive into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done by just before 10:45PM, and after some asset management, and checking my notifications on Blurt, I went to bed around 12AM. I woke up just before 6AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, beginning on this post, getting out of bed around 7:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, and then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1:30PM, so it's an excellent time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a bit later in the afternoon, to strain and blend kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing first, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition of this post! 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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