I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1446 - 20.3k HP Surpassed, and a Bit of a Frustrating Evening and Morning - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, July 4, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Since I finished up going through my Hive notifications early last night, I decided to finally swap the Arix installation that I've been using in my laptop for the past several months, over to the next Arch Linux installation, given that I had already laid the ground work the night before and a bit more in the morning. Pretty much every time that I swap Arch/Artix installations, there are always a few things that go awry, and while most of them are easy to resolve, this round has been a fair bit more frustrating than previous ones.

I synced over my workspace and its tab stacks in Vivaldi, but although the tabs remained, all my separate tab stacks disappeared, which means that I now have to spend the time to reorganize them all again. I have a whole lot of tabs that I use, so that's not going to be a quick process. The most annoying snafu after the swap was that my ethernet connection stopped working for some reason, which I spent quite a bit of time troubleshooting last night, to no avail. It did work with an ethernet-USB-c adapter, however, which suggests that it's either an issue with the ethernet port on my laptop, or some sort of software problem. I still have to allocate some time to figure it out.

The internet connection from the new mobile-broadband router that we just got is not completely stable, with internet access disappearing for extended periods of time, and with no way on my end to resolve it. Thankfully we still have StarLink, to which I've switched a few times as a backup, which thankfully does work consistently. We're using StarLink at the moment, since the internet connection from the other router died last night again. That's another thing that I still need to troubleshoot.

So my evening last night, and this morning, have been rather crunchy and frustrating I must say. I went to sleep a bit too late, due to troubleshooting my ethernet connection, and I got up quite late, definitely still feeling that more sleep was necessary, so my whole Sunday flow is a bit off, and I'm a little behind schedule. I'm really hoping the rest of the day goes a lot more smoothly.

On a positive note, I crossed the threshold of 20,300 Hive Power last night, which was a nice surprise. Having reached that point by last night, it's a certainty that I'll strongly exceed 20,400 Hive Power before the end of the coming week.

Yesterday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2:45PM, with my day taking an unexpected and enjoyable turn. I went to Tutu's collect some filtered water, when some of the people there, who were in a discussion on how to make GaiaYoga better, asked me my perspective. I only shared a small bit, as that's a whole big can of worms in itself, but what I shared was appreciated. A young woman there, Becca, who's been living here for a good while, approached me to inquire more deeply into my rather cryptic chosen words. Because she was very interested, we ended up sharing a wonderfully deep and broad conversation, on all manner of (interconnected) subjects, over the course of the next few hours. When we finally wrapped that up by the early evening, after a hug, I headed back to the other side of the property to make myself some food in Wabisabi, to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then to return to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. As mentioned above, I got done early, by just after 9PM, swapped my Artix/Arch installations, spent a good bit of time troubleshooting my ethernet issue, before finally making myself stop to go to bed by just after 12:30AM. I woke up very late, by about 8:45AM, still a bit tired, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee, to make breakfast, and to collect another jar of my medicinal tea in Wabisabi, before heading back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1:15PM, so it's a very good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my numerous other Sunday Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on a few small jungle-community/land work and tasks. 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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