I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1075 - Even Amidst Great Challenges, I Make Hive My Priority - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, July 7, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Hive has quite literally changed my life, and I'm forever grateful that I discovered it, that I made the decicion to create an account here, that I was able to see and understand its incredible actuality and potential, and that I chose to dive in deep in my commitment and dedication to growing and building in this extraordinary Blockchain Ecosystem so many years ago. As it stands today, I've been very active building, growing, connecting, and sharing on Hive for 3 years, 9 months, and 15 days (or 1,384 days in total), since September 23, 2021, and I've published 1-3 posts every single day since February 1, 2022, or for the past 3 years, 5 months, and 7 days (1,253 days in total). Holy wow. Those numbers honestly blow my mind, and they are a testiment to just how deeply Hive touched, inspired, and motivated me. That's still true to this day.

I don't let anything get in the way of my daily consistency on Hive, exactly because I see how necessary that is to reaching my ultimate goals here, and to supporting the Hive community effectively. Like my friend @bradleyarrow, my commitment and dedication to Hive and its community are absolutely breakable and unwavering. When I say that I'm all in for the long haul here, I mean it. Period.

This is, of course, not always easy, and sometimes it's downright difficult, both in terms of events and situations in my life here at GaiaYoga, as well as with my mental-emotional state at any particular time. Some days it takes every bit of focus and determination that I have, but I do it regardless of anything.

It doesn't help that I have nobody in my daily life with whom I can share my love and passion for Hive, since no one here understands or cares about sovereignty-driven or blockchain technology, so it's all on me to muster the energy and focus to do what I do here every day. Although I'm very social here on Hive, and I engage with this Blockchain community strongly daily, in my life I'm basically alone. That's quite a bugger, but I work with what I've got, and I do the best that I can.

This level of commitment, dedication, determination, perseverance, persistence, and relentless tenacity has definitely paid off, however, as I've been able to grow my account, and the assets connected to it, substantially in my time here. So much so that the crypto assets that I hold on Hive far exceed the fiat assets that I have available in my daily life, which is as it should be, from my perspective. While I'm also active and continuing to grow in other blockchain ecosystems, like Blurt, Qortal, and Bastyon, and I love and appreciate all of them, Hive will always be my primary focus, as to me it's 'home'.

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, very late indeed, just after 3PM, putting my attention first on collecting some food supplies from Tutu's, and straining and blending kefir (the first experimental batch fermented in blended coconut meat, coconut water, and raw honey). I wasn't able to take any phots for my posts yesterday, but thankfully I still had enough for the next two days. When I finished that, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, then I went to do another round of weeding in the fenced garden next to Kana's place. Once I had another good chunk done, I returned to the other side of the property, to take a shower, collect some leftover food, and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee, from the Landing fridge, and with those in hand(s), I made my way back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I had to pause that to go attend the Monday community logistics meeting, and as soon as that ended, I headed straight back to the Flow House to get back to Hive. I got everything done by around 11:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed just after 12AM. I woke up just before 7:30AM, having thankfully slept very 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 1:15PM, so a very good time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a bit later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition 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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