I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1253 - The We Are Alive Tribe Is a Decentralized Community Economy That Benefits Us All - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, January 1, 2026

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: 18.21%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.098 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.009 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.07891023 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.001456 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.24 USD 

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0003143 USD 

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 89,910.6 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 81.25 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,326.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 72.09 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #145 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#112 (among active witnesses only)/149.1 HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

In my post yesterday I mentioned how I had inadvertently powered up 200 HIVE, that Ben had sent me to invest in the We Are Alive Tribe, along with my own 546.363 HIVE, for the January HPUD, and that it was an error that I wasn't sure how to rectify. I relayed what had happened to Ben via Discord, and his response hit the nail on the head regarding how we both see the We Are Alive Tribe. He said to consider it a Christmas and New Year's gift, for all that I do for the community, and that when one of us grows, we all grow. It's true, the more I, or any of us grows, the more that we're able to give and support. That's precisely the perspective from which I'm operating as I build and grow our financial infrastructure. I'm investing, as is Ben, in what will increasingly benefit us all as time progresses, a 'We Are Alive Tribe' decentralized community economy. Ben and I know what's possible, and we're going for it, full-steam ahead!

The one important understanding that I'd like to impart to everyone who's a part of the We Are Alive Tribe is that the more that we each contribute and give, the more that we receive, and the more that we're supported by what we're collectively building together. I'd define the We Are Alive Tribe as a decentralized community economy based on the principles of abundance, care, generosity, good will, kindness, mutual-benefit, mutual-support, and trust. Presently only those of us in the 'We Are Alive Tribe' core-leadership circle are full key-holders for all of our various community accounts, because we have a solid base of trust with each other, however we want more people to join us, so that we can more efficiently and effectively create, build, and grow, together, for the good of us all.

Ben also shared some excellent news last night, and on this exact topic. He mentioned that his recent absence was due to him working on creating a new income stream where he lives (a lucrative firewood side-business) specifically to fund what we're building and growing in the We Are Alive Tribe. Holy wow, this is going to be fun! So it's looking like 2026 is going to be even more of an extraordinary year for the We Are Alive Tribe indeed!

I can say that, while we will definitely continue investing in layer 2, 2026 will see a strong focus on growing the Hive Power on our significant community accounts, so that our upvotes have more punch. On that note, Ben sent me another 250 HIVE last night, that I split evenly between powering up on our main community account, @hive-155221, and on our witness, @aliveandmmb, to get their HP high enough to be able to add to our curation trail, which I completed this morning. So within the span of a week, we have 3 new community accounts, @wearealive too, that are now actively upvoting in our trail, which is awesome sauce to the max!

As we build, grow, and flesh out the 'We Are' financial infrastructure, our daily and weekly income in a while host of useful and valuable assets will notably increase as the year unfolds, which means that we'll have ever more community resources to share with all of you. How far will we get in building this 'We Are Alive Tribe' decentralized community financial system and economy? That's a very good question, to which I say that we're determined to grow a whole community of whales, to eventually help shift the balance of power on the Blockchain in a beneficial and good direction. Let's go, my friends, we've got incredible things to create together!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 1:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. With that completed to my satisfaction, I made a quick food-supply run to Tutu's to restock the Landing, after which I strained and blended coconut kefir. After finishing up with kefir, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, then I went to do a thorough weeding of the yacón beds. Once I had that done, Ano showed me the new kitchen space behind the shop that's being created, to replace the Landing, which needs to be rebuilt. He also showed me some possible new areas for my plant nursery, so that I would have more space, which I very much need. Upon wrapping up with Ano, I went to the Landing to make a simple version of my popcorn (without all the spices and seasonings, since I was out of some of them), and with some of that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I headed back to the Flow House, to get into my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by a bit before 9:30PM, and after some asset management, and talking with Ben via Discord, I went to bed a bit to late, about 11:45PM. I woke up around 5:30AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, setting up our two new community accounts in our curation trail, 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 12:30PM, so it's quite a good 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 on 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 edition of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

2026 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'!

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.