I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1250 - The We Are Alive Tribe Had an Excellent Year, and 2026 Will Be Even Better! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, December 29, 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: 17.61%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.102 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.003 USD 

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.03571098 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00146935 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.221849 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0003005 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 88,048.85 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 78.045 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,345.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 75.41 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #145 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#112 (among active witnesses only)/147.4K HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Tomorrow is the last day of 2025, and as I reflect back on where the We Are Alive Tribe was a year ago, just after Ben (@benthomaswwd / @benthomasuk), Rosyel (@iamraincrystal), and I took over leadership for our beloved community, with Bjorn (@borniet) joining us soon afterward, I can't help but think that we've come quite a long way, and that we've accomplished much, in a year's time. Even with so many projects, tokens, and communities being abandoned and failing over the last year, and the notably challenging situation of Hive that we've all experienced as we moved through 2025, the We Are Alive Tribe has continued to grow, expand, and thrive, regardless. I'd say that we're ending the year, and beginning this new one, in a very good place and way.

The challenges of this year on Hive, more than any other that I can remember, have weeded out most people and projects that are not fully committed and dedicated to what they're building here, and while that has not been an enjoyable process, it has clearly shown us where we should be giving our support, and who our Blockchain allies truly are. Those that remain are are some of the most dependable, committed, consistent, dedicated, and trustworthy people and projects that I know in the Ecosystem, which is a excllent base upon which to collaborate, co-create, and build as we move forward together.

Our ALIVE token, even with its market ups and downs, has continued strong through the year, and as I continue to build and grow the 'We Are Alive Tribe' financial infrastructure, it should indeed continue on an upward trajectory in terms of use and value as time progresses. I'm diligently working to make ALIVE one of the bar-none most useful and valuable tokens on Hive Engine, and a token in which I myself would want to invest, which I am. Did you know that ALIVE presently has a 125% higher price than BLURT, both in HIVE/SWAP.HIVE and in the fiat dollar?

Over the last few months I've gone all-in on investing in the growth and success of the We Are Alive Tribe with my own assets, both by setting community accounts as beneficiaries on all my posts, and by donating/contributing 1 SWAP.HIVE per day to building and growing our financial infrastructure. This isn't to say that I wasn't already fully committed and dedicated, but rather that I'm now directly investing in our community with my own funds, instead of just investing and leveraging what we have available, which I know will increasingly benefit us all in time.

For everyone who has supported, trusted, and invested in us, The We Are Alive Tribe, and our ALIVE token, I thank you immensely, and I promise to work relentlessly for our, and for your, ever-growing success. We've come far, with much still to do, and I hope that you will join us on this glorious Blockchain journey of building something incredible for all of us. The best is yet to come, my friends!

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, a little after 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to chopping and dumping bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and to tidying the area up a bit. With that completed, I collected coconut water and coconut meat from several younger coconuts to begin another round of kefir fermentation. Once I had that done, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, after which I went to Braja's place to discuss some financial matters. Kefir and Braja took a bit longer then expected, so I didn't get much else done yesterday, unfortunately. Just before sunset, 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 tasks. I got everything done by a bit after 9:15PM, and after some asset management, and scanning Qortal, I went to bed just before 11PM. I woke up around 7AM, 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 1PM, so it's a fantastic 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 incarnation 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!

Image created by @benthomaswwd

You're invited to provide liquidity in our two ALIVE diesel/liquidity pools, both of which offer daily liquidity rewards:

ALIVE:SWAP.HIVE

and

ALIVE:ALIVEM

There will be more ALIVE pools coming soon!

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'!

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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.