I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1337 - Final Cleanup of the Flow House, and Continuing Research into Freedom-Focused Computer and Phone OSes - Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, March 26, 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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I've been working out of, and sleeping in the Kasbah for exactly two weeks today, after needing to evacuate the Flow House due to intense winds and sideways rain, which caused some significant damage, and made a mess of things on the inside. Adapting and flowing with that the best that I could, in addition to BeeSwap disappearing, completely threw off my daily routine and weekly schedule. Even after two weeks, I'm just now barely getting things somewhat back on track.

I had to wait for a fair while for the seemingly never-ending rain to finally stop, and for the Flow House to dry out a bit, before I could really start working in and around it, to continue with repairs, and to clean it up inside. Avi and I spent 3 hours yesterday securing another tarp over the top of the Flow House, to hopefully stop the leak that keeps getting my bed wet, and repositioning and securing protective tarps along the outside edges. While we didn't get as far as I had hoped, we did make some strong progress.

I had to reschedule the session that was set for today, because I don't presently have a suitable space to give one, though I intend to rectify that today. I plan on giving the Flow House a thorough cleaning, to get it ship shape and ready for sessions, along with sleeping doing my online computer work once again. I should have that completed before the end of the day, with the intention of moving back in by the early evening, and sleeping there tonight.

As I've been mentioning in my last few posts, I'm extremely concerned, and very disturbed, by the worldwide push for OS-level age and identity verification to utilize devices and online resources, and even more so by the number of FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) and Linux projects which are seemingly bending at the knee, and going along with it. There are red flags flying everywhere at the moment, even where I least expected them. With this being the case, I've been continuing my deeper research into Linux projects and distributions, and privacy-and-security-focused phone OSes (Operating Systems), that are resisting these unlawful 'laws', and which are choosing the path of freedom and sovereignty instead. Soon there may only be two kinds of OSes, compliant-and-controlled corporate drones, and defiant sovereignty-and-freedom-first community-driven expressions (hint, don't choose the former).

I haven't made any decisions yet on my own exact course of action, as it would be a notable shift for me no matter which options that I choose, but I do feel that choosing more freedom-and-sovereignty-aligned OSes is very important, so I keep exploring and researching. Thankfully with FOSS OSes, it's easy to download them, and to give them a test drive, it just takes a little time and patience to experiment and find a suitable one. I've been happily using Arch Linux on my computers for over 8.5 years now, so I'm not at all keen on the idea of changing that, though with recent developments, that may soon be necessary.

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Kasbah, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 1:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to a few small jungle-community tasks. With those completed, and a quick asset-management break at the Kasbah, I went up to the Flow House with Avi to work for a few hours on getting the Flow House inhabitable once again. When we finally wrapped that up for the day, I went to Wabisabi to heat myself up some leftover food that I had in the fridge, and with that and my bar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I headed back to the Kasbah to begin my evening Hive tasks. I wasn't able to get through all my notifications last night, though I did get close, finally stopping by a little after 10PM to do some asset management, and then going to bed by around 12AM. I woke up just after 7:15AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to writer this post. It's now just before 1:45PM, so it's a marvelous 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 Kasbah a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on jungle-community/land work and tasks. 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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