I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1301 - 16,800 HP Surpassed, and Some Thursday Thoughts - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, February 18, 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: 21.97%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.068 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.977 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price:  0.08435375 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00125776 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.120599 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.000204 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 66,982.25 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 558.36 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 52.56 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,991.00 USD  

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 77.98 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #138 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#109 (among active witnesses only)/283k HP in votes/42 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Yesterday afternoon, and right on schedule, I exceeded the threshold of 16,800 Hive Power, and at the present cadence, I should reach 17,900 HP by the middle of next week. A good bit of the increased HP growth on my account is due to the horrible state of the Hive economy, with the fiat price of HIVE continuing to reach new all-time lows, and the counterbalancing HIVE APR attaining new all-time highs. Then there's the fact that due to the Hive Debt being at almost 22%, that HBD is no longer distributed in post rewards, with HIVE taking its place. Everyone's Hive Power is growing more quickly than it ever has, which is great, but also not, because of the reason for that notably accelerated growth. I should easily pass 17,000 HP by the week after next.

Tomorrow is BBHO Powerup Day (BPUD), and I'm ready to go with 1,300+ liquid BBHO, which may be my largest powerup of this token to date, and all from curation rewards and winning contests. This upcoming powerup will take me to almost 23,000 staked BBHO, which will give my Saturday Drip-Day drips a nice little boost.

Although I still do most of my asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe on Sundays, I've been giving more focus through the week to diligently adding assorted assets on @aliveandthriving and @heartbeatvault01 to their respective diesel/liquidity pools, as well as staking various tokens, to do my best to grow our assets and income as quickly as our resources allow. Things are definitely moving and flowing pretty well overall, though growth is still never fast enough for my tastes, since we're building a sovereign 'We Are Alive Tribe' financial empire, which is a huge endeavor to say the least. Small, consistent investments add up very nicely over time, however, and we're well on our way, especially with the regular personal contributions/donations from Ben and me.

Up until today, I've contributed/donated 85 SWAP.HIVE in total, with Ben having given far more. I do it every day, while Ben does so periodically, but with much larger amounts at once. We know what's possible for the We Are Alive Tribe, and we're doing everything we can to make it happen. As always, we invite others to join us in this monumental endeavor, to help accelerate the process.

On a personal level, so much of my care, commitment, focus, dedication, devotion, and time on a daily basis go into Hive, and especially into the We Are Alive Tribe, in part because my heart is still broken into many pieces, with me still being quite withdrawn from most social contact, connection, and engagement, so with few close human connections or ties, I give most of it here, to all of you. Yes, I definitely still need to heal my heart, and to return to balance and wholeness, since I'm not really doing well in my life I'd say, with very little fun, human closeness with others, fulfillment, or satisfaction, but I'm stable and functional every day, which allows me to continue in my blockchain endeavors for long periods of time, as many of you may have noticed. These posts began, 1,301 daily posts ago, with the end of my last longer-term relationship, with my ex-girlfriend Kai, over 3.5 years ago, and I've had no close, intimate connections or relationships since then. Yes, that's sad, it hurts, and it majorly sucks, but I just stay focused on helping people and creating beauty, making the We Are Alive Tribe as amazing for all of you as I can, on growing our assets to levels where all of you can truly benefit, and on building our decentralized community economy and financial system, that will immensely and increasingly benefit everyone as we progress.

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first. Once that was done to my satisfaction, I went to chop and dump bad/used coconuts at the upper bar, and to tidy up the area a bit (after the wild pigs had made a complete mess), interspersed with assisting Ano in the new kitchen. When I had both or those completed, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, before going on a banana hunt around the property, in search of harvestable bananas (I didn't find any this round), after which I wrapped up my day by making myself some food (a mini spiced-and-seasoned beef burger, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, and Dijon mustard) in the new kitchen, 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 just after 10:15PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by a bit after 11PM. I woke up quite late, by about 8AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the new kitchen space, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:45PM,so it's a really good 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, t9 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 version 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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