I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1449 - Drastic Action Taken to Restore the We Are Alive Tribe ʻs Economic Sustainability - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, July 7, 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: 24.79%

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Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #124 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#99 (among active witnesses only)/824.1k HP in votes/51 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I stayed up quite late last night mulling over an idea that had come into my mind earlier in the day, and looking into the details of what it would entail, of using the resources that the We Are Alive Tribe had available, to generate the greatest possible beneficial impact on our community economic situation. The idea was to swap all of the remaining HIVE on @hive-155221 into HSBIDAO, and after considering the possible ramifications for a good while, I did exactly that just before I went to bed. To me the choice was logical, and it brings two benefits that did not exist before.

Firstly, our HSBIDAO income will increase substantially, which is essential for my plan to recover economic sustainability for the We Are Alive Tribe to be successful, and secondly, the big chunk of HIVE that was sitting on @hive-155221 was not being leveraged in any way, and was simply diminishing each week when I allocated it for the week, to pay our HP delegators, and to distribute in our ALIVE dividends. That was a problem. By swapping it for HSBIDAO, it is now growing, and more quickly than it would if it were powered up as Hive Power.

Now I just have to see where our HSBIDAO income stands in relation to how much of it that I'll have to swap for HIVE each week to cover our expenses. As I mentioned yesterday, I've begun to send the HSBIDAO (and BEE) that I earn on my account to @aliveandthriving, to speed up the process of reaching the point of sustainable economic balance. I don't yet know whether I'll be able to grow our weekly HSBIDAO income beyond our expenses in time, about 2 months, but doing it this way will at the very least extend the time frame that we'll be able to distribute HIVE to delegators and in the ALIVE dividends.

After consolidating the HIVE from various community accounts onto @hive-155221, I swapped 538.809 HIVE for 972.589 HSBIDAO, which added to the 15+ HSBIDAO that was already on @aliveandthriving, brought us to a new total of 988.241 HSBIDAO. We currently have just over 989 HSBIDAO, and I'll be monitoring how quickly it accumulates over the next several day, and regardless of what our new HSBIDAO income turns out to be, on Sunday I'll swap a little over 120 of them for HIVE, to allocate to @aliveandsocial and @aliveandthriving to cover our weekly expenses.

If our expenses are still notably exceeding our new HSBIDAO income, then I'll begin removing liquidity from various non-essential liquidity pools, to then swap for more HSBIDAO. I may also consider delegating more HP on certain accounts to @steembasicincome. Yes, our curation votes will decrease in weight, but given the current critical conditions, I think that it's warranted. Fingers crossed, my friends.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, then swapping an empty propane canister for a full one down at Tutu's for Wabisabi, and after a quick break up at the Flow House, going on a banana hunt around the property in search of harvestable bananas (I found 3 racks). When I had all that done, I made myself some food in Wabisabi, collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with those in hands, I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just before 9:45PM, and I spent the rest of the evening, until I went to bed just before 12AM, diving into the details of what swapping our HIVE for HSBIDAO would mean, and then pulling the trigger. I woke up very late, by just after 8:30AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 11:30AM, so it's an excellent time to wrap up this post, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before preparing for a session that's scheduled for 1:30PM. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition 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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