I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1261 - An Assessment of Yesterday's Investment into Building the 'We Are Alive Tribe' Financial Infrastructure - Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, January 9, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

In my post yesterday I talked about how Ben's (@benthomaswwd / @benthomasuk) investment of 500 HIVE yesterday morning, into building our financial infrastructure, allowed me to notably boost a few important elements of it. Today I wanted to give y'all an update on exactly how Ben's investment has benefited the community, and how I used it to boost our community income.

On the SWAP.HIVE side of things, the increased liquidity in the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, from part of Ben's investment, raised our SWAP.HIVE income from that pool from 0.18520857 SWAP.HIVE to 0.32902816 SWAP.HIVE daily, which is an increase of 77.652772763161%, so quite good. In terms of weekly numbers, this boosted our total SWAP.HIVE income from around 1.5 SWAP.HIVE to about 2.5 SWAP.HIVE weekly. This will help me immensely in my endeavors to leverage our assets, and grow our income streams, let me tell you!

Ben's boost bumped up our (mostly) daily HIVE income, from our strongly-augmented liquid DAB, from 0.004 HIVE to 0.075 HIVE daily, which is a whopping 1,775% increase! Yes, I know that this is still a small amount of HIVE daily, but it was a very strong increase, and with the amount of DBOND that I also bought, our quantity of liquid DAB, which pays HIVE, will be growing quite a bit more quickly now.

The RUG that I've been buying with my daily contribution/donation of 1 SWAP.HIVE has been giving us a steadily-growing DBOND income, which will also make our amount of liquid DAB grow more quickly. The progression of our DBOND income over the past 3 weeks has been 0.21100000 DBOND => 0.23000000 DBOND => 0.24000000 DBOND, which is awesome sauce to the max! Since this is proving quite effective in growing our DBOND stake, I'll keep going with it, buying a little more RUG every day.

We've made huge progress in building, growing, and fleshing out our 'We Are Alive Tribe' financial infrastructure, even within the fairly short time that Ben and I have been regularly contributing/investing our own funds to this essential endeavor, and we're only in the first month of the year. We've got no plans of stopping, so I can pretty much guarantee y'all that we're going to see substantial growth in our assets, and our income streams, over the coming year, which will directly translate into more of this abundance that we will be able to share with the community. We're just getting started, we have much to do, and we could use all the help that we can get, so come join Ben and I in our 'We Are Alive Tribe' investment fun!

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, though this had to be split up a bit, due to clouds obscuring the sun a bit more then I would have liked. After completing that to my satisfaction, I got a few small tasks done, then after a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, I focused on planting the last bunch of longevity spinach (Gynura procumbens), that I had removed from the top of a tarp covering a storage area next to the Landing a few weeks ago. I felt a great deal of satisfaction in finally completing this monumental task (there was a huge amount of longevity spinach!). Once I finished with that, I cleaned up, took one more short asset-management break up at the Flow House, and then I went to the the other side of property, to the fenced garden, to collect some large branch cuttings of one of my clove/tree/Vana tulsi holy basil (Ocimum gratissimum), to bring them back to the Landing, so that I could put them in a bucket of water, until I'm able to plant them. With that task finally completed, I made myself some food (mini spiced-and-seasoned beef burgers, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, and Dijon mustard) in the Landing, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I headed back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by a bit after 10:15PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by 11PM. I woke up a little after 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 after 1PM, so it's an excellent 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 more photography for my posts, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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