I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1292 - Yet Another Round of Community Investments Completed, and Things Are Getting Fun! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, February 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I definitely get the feeling that I've been sharing about Ben's (@benthomaswwd / @benthomasuk) and my community-investment endeavors quite a lot lately, which is a very good thing, as it means that we're progressing at a good pace. With that in mind, and to keep our investment ball rolling, I just completed another round of investing in our 'We Are Alive Tribe' decentralized community economy and financial system, thanks to Ben sending me another 100 SWAP.HIVE for general community investments, which I sent to @aliveandthriving (along with my daily contribution/donation of 1 SWAP.HIVE), and another 100 SWAP.HIVE that he sent to @heartbeatvault01, along with 0.1 SWAP.LTC.

On @aliveandthriving, I split the 100 SWAP.HIVE between buying another chunk of DAB and DBOND off the market, to directly and indirectly boost our daily HIVE income, and adding another good bit of liquidity to the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, to increase our daily SWAP.HIVE income. On @heartbeatvault01, since the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.LTC pool earns such excellent fees, I added most of the SWAP.LTC, along with 75.77 SWAP.HIVE, into that pool, as at this level of investment, those two assets will grow quite quickly. With the remaining 25+ SWAP.HIVE, I added another 2 SWAP.HIVE each of liquidity to the SWAP.HIVE:TRADE and the SWAP.HIVE:TRIBE pools, I swapped 5 SWAP.HIVE for CENT for the CENT pools, and I added 5.42 SWAP.HIVE more liquidity into the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool.

Each round of these periodic larger investments from Ben, and the smaller daily investments from me, makes my strategic-synergistic investing and asset leveraging all the more fun, because every one increases the diversity and volume of our multitudinous income streams, which allows me to leverage and grow our assets in an increasingly efficient, effective, and rapid manner. It's just as fun doing this on my own account, but I don't have such frequent large amounts to invest at a time, so it's just a bit slower going for me, though I certainly do quite well with what I do have available.

I found out last night that the HSBIDAO:ECOBANK pool was finally created, and after reading that HSBIDAO in the pool will still earn curation dividends, I bought an equal amount of HSBIDAO off the market on my account, I swapped it for an equivalent amount of ECOBANK, and then I added it, along with my 2+ HSBIDAO, into that new pool. Both of the projects that created and manage these tokens are quite solid, so I'm happy to invest in them by adding their tokens into the pool. I'll likely do the same with the almost 102 HSBIDAO sitting on @heartbeatvault01, so that we can leverage that asset even more effectively.

At our present rate of investments into building and growing our community economy and financial infrastructure, I'd say that we're going to make huge strides over the course of this year, because we've already made very notable advancements even in the short time since Ben and I first began investing regularly. So yeah, it's going to be quite fun this year, my friends!

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I had that completed to my satisfaction (which was challenging under such rainy and cloudy conditions), I harvested a rack of bananas next to the Landing that was ready, and I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, along with tidying up the area a bit. When I had those completed, I devoted some time to helping Melekai in her endeavors to weed, clear, and expand the garden space next to Tutu's. I removed several huge piles of weeds from the along the upper back edge of the garden, and afterward it looked immensely better. After we finally finished that up, I collected some food supplies from Tutu's, headed back across the property, took a shower, made myself some food (a mini spiced-and-seasoned beef burger, 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 returned to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. While I did get close, I had quite a lot of notifications last night, so I wasn't able to get through them all before I had to stop by around 10:45PM, to do some asset management, and then to go to bed by around 12AM. I woke up just after 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, heading back to the Flow House to make our 'We Are Alive Tribe' investments, and then to write this post. It's now just before 1PM, so it's quite 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 leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, and then on community/lane 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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