I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1280 - Thoughts on a Sunny Thursday - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, January 28, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I sit here to begin writing this post (a bit later than I'd hoped), it's a gorgeous, warm, breezy, and sunny Thursday, which I'm very much appreciating, being the wild, naked jungle man that I am. My superfood fire coffee turned out exceptionally well this morning, so I'm savoring every drop, interspersed with smoking splifs (tobacco-ganja blend), as I go through my morning online routine (Hive and otherwise). I have a session scheduled today for 1:30PM, and with someone with whom I love to work, so I've got to finish writing this rather soon. I don't have a whole lot coming to my mind to discuss or mention today, other than to say that things are moving, growing, and flowing well for the We Are Alive Tribe, and on my own account, and that our newly-installed StarLink internet service is performing very well indeed for our jungle community, with much gratitude on my part for all of it.

I've just about gotten fully caught up on my backlogged Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and I almost got through all my notifications last night, though I had to stop close to 11:30PM, to do some quick asset management, and then to go to bed. I'm hoping that I'll be able to complete that tonight.

I'm looking into setting up an OpenVPN server on my router again, now that it's got a forward-facing internet connection, and a public IP address once more (it's been many years). I haven't tried to do this in over 7 years, so I'm refreshing my memory on the correct process. With the StarLink router now in bypass mode, which turns it into a simple modem to receive the incoming internet connection, and my router now being the one that handles and directs network traffic, I'm starting to feel like I'm slowly rebuilding my former quite-incredible technological infrastructure from years ago on the mainland, one small piece at a time. That's quite nifty.

The past two weeks have been very busy for me, between troubleshooting our former internet service, struggling to accomplish all my daily and weekly Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks on my phone, setting up and configuring our new StarLink connection, and assisting with unloading and distributing two truckloads of goat manure at various points around the property. I've definitely been pretty tired at the end of my days lately, I must say.

Things feel like they're finally slowing down and mellowing out again, however, which is very appreciated and welcomed, as I'll have more time to accomplish my assorted Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and to get back into the nitty-gritty of my personal and community asset management. I, and we, have much to build and grow, and I'm happily back to this important endeavor in a far more efficient, effective, and quick manner. Let's go!

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little before 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I had that done to my satisfaction, I devoted another couple hours to the large job of assisting in the process unloading and distributing a truckload of goat manure around the property in various spots. When we finally completed that momentous task, I took a shower, collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and then I headed back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks. As I mentioned above, I almost got through everything, but I had to stop around 11:30PM, to do my last round of asset management, and to go to bed by just after 12AM. I woke up just after 5:15AM, and unable to sleep further, I checked a few things, and I fiddled, on my laptop for about an hour, before making another partially-successful ateempt at sleep. I woke up again quite late, by just after 8AM, having slept fairly 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 12:45PM, so it's an excellent time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before preparing for the session that's scheduled for 1:30PM. 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! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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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