I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1219 - Our Official Witness-Announcement Post Published, and 14,800 HP Surpassed! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, November 28, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Well, my friends, I'm happy to say that I was able to carve out a little time this morning to write and publish our official witness-announcement post, Official Announcement of Our 'We Are Alive Tribe' and 'MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) Project' Witness Node, aliveandmmb! - Saturday, November 29, 2025! Now we just need a whole lot of votes to rise enough in the witness ranking to be start signing blocks, so if you haven't already, please consider voting for our @aliveandmmb witness!

Although I was expecting to write it tomorrow, on Sunday, I'm grateful that I was able to get it done this morning instead, given that I already have two posts to write tomorrow, the next edition of these posts, and my December HPUD post, with my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update following the next morning. This gives me a little more wiggle room in terms of time, which is always a very good thing.

As I alluded in my previous post, I crossed the threshold of 14,800 Hive Power in the early evening yesterday, and with my HPUD powerup of 60+ HIVE tomorrow, it is very likely indeed that I will exceed 15,000 Hive Power before the end of this coming week, or very soon after, which is perfectly on schedule. I'm getting very close to achieving my 2025 goal for HBD in Savings as well, very thankfully, and added to what's already in Savings, I'll be claiming 7+ HBD in interest by mid December, and I'll withdraw at least one more round of 2 HBD from the Pepe Game (possibly two), which should bring me in the neighborhood of 2.534 HBD to go to reach my year-end goal. Not bad, not bad at all.

I've continued to contribute/donate 1 SWAP.HIVE per day to investing in building the 'We Are Alive Tribe' financial infrastructure, having sent and invested 11 SWAP.HIVE in total as of this morning. Ben is generously also continuing to send assets for me to do the same, and I'm making good headway. To further help to build and grow the We Are Alive Tribe, I've also set @aliveandthriving as a 5% beneficiary on all my posts, and I've done the same for our community account on Blurt, which I've continued to slowly grow. I choose to do these things because I'm absolutely determined to make the We Are Alive Tribe as amazing as I possibly can, for all of us.

I ended up allocating our HIVE for the week last night, instead of tomorrow afternoon, because I noticed that @aliveandthriving would have run out of HIVE for the ALIVE dividends by today if I hadn't done so. We cut it really close this week, so much so in fact that after allocating 22 HIVE (21 HIVE for payouts to HP delegators+1 HIVE as precision buffer) for HP delegators on @aliveandsocial, and 22 HIVE (21 HIVE for the ALIVE dividends+1 HIVE as precision buffer) on @aliveandthriving for ALIVE dividends, I only had 12.04 HIVE left to power up on @aliveandthriving. So we presently don't have any surplus HIVE at all, but at least our HP delegators, and our ALIVE holders and stakers, will receive the same amount of HIVE as they did last week. This hits home just how necessary it is for me to increase our weekly HIVE income substantially, and as quickly as I'm able! I'm working on it!

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2:30PM, and after collecting some tools, I walked over to my friend Lea's property to assist her with some clearing work, and holy moly did I work my tush off, and we certainly got a huge amount done for the time that we were working! After bringing our work day to completion, and some hot showers, Lea made us a gloriously delicious and satisfying dinner, which we both thoroughly enjoyed, over some lovely conversation. I said my good-byes, and I left Lea's around 6:30PM, and after walking back to GaiaYoga, I collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by a little before 7PM. I got everything done by a bit after 9PM, and after some asset management, and creating a post template on @aliveandmmb in preparation to write our witness-announcement post, I went to bed a little after 11PM. I woke up about 5:30AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, returning to the Flow House to write and publish our witness announcement post, and then to begin on this one. It's now just after 12:45PM, so it's a magnificent 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 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.

Come join us in the We Are Alive Tribe on Hive and on Blurt!

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Vote for our @aliveandmmb Witness Node!

This is our collaboratively shared Witness node between the We Are Alive Tribe, and @borniet's and my MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) Project, here to build something good for all of us! The higher in the witness ranking we go, the more that we'll be able to grow the We Are Alive Tribe, and the more that we'll be able to share with all of you!

Vote for @borniet's @botlord Witness Node!

Bjorn is our badass coder who hosts and manages our (and also Bradley's) community backends, he creates all sorts of useful tools, and he assists people all over the Blockchain constantly. He redefines the term 'busy'!

Vote for @bradleyarrow's Witness Node!

Bradley's tenaciously committed and all-in on Hive for the long haul (just like me!), and the higher his witness goes in the ranking, the higher the weekly BBH and BBHO dividend payouts will be!

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