I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1452 - Daily and Weekly HIVE Distribution Is Being Put on Pause Until I Can Rebuild Our Income Base - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, July 10, 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: 25.17%

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I've been sharing in my last few posts, the We Are Alive Tribe's economy and financial situation are currently in a very unsustainable place, and as much as I hate to have to take these measures to re-establish that sustainability, I've decided to bite the bullet and take the bull by the horns now rather than later, to begin rebuilding viable income streams. As such I'm sad to say that distributing HIVE weekly to our HP delegators, and daily in our ALIVE dividends, must be put on pause for an indeterminate amount of time, until I'm able to rebuild some solid income streams of HIVE, and assets like HSBIDAO that are reliably swappable for HIVE.

I'm sorry, and I apologize to our supporters and investors. I overextended our available resources because I wanted to give as much back to the community as I could. The issue with that was that the HIVE that we've been sending out for the past year and a half came almost entirely from our sizeable BEE delegation to @bee.voter, and when that service was brought to an end a few months ago, the vast majority of our HIVE income also disappeared. I've been trying for months now to find other viable sources of HIVE to replace it, but given our resources, and how exceptional the @bee.voter HIVE-for-BEE service was, that endeavor has very unfortunately not been successful. That's why the current unpleasant decision needed to be made.

I know that this course of action will very likely tank the market price of ALIVE for a time, and that most of our HP delegators will remove their delegations, but given the current state of things, I don't see another way other than to pause our HIVE distribution for a time and to work to rebuild our income streams as quickly as possible. Sunday will be the last round of sending out HIVE in our ALIVE dividends, since there is still already sufficient HIVE allocated for that purpose. Yes, it sucks big, hairy, sweaty elephant balls, but aside from having a large amount of investment liquidity, which we don't have, it's the only way forward.

As soon as the next round of interest is claimed for the HBD in Savings on my own account, I'm going to withdraw the full amount, around 655 HBD, swap it for HIVE, power it up on my account, then delegate a large portion of it to @dab-vote. This will notably accelerate how quickly DBOND, and from it DAB, accumulate on my account, and as the DAB continues to come in, I'll begin loaning a good bit of it to our community, to speed up growth of DAB on @aliveandthriving.

Given that the DBOND-DAB-RUG project will sadly also be brought to an end a some point soon, this is only a temporary measure. While DBOND is backed 1:1 with HIVE/SWAP.HIVE, DAB is not, so if and when that project is brought to a close, each DAB would likely equal about 0.2-0.3 HIVE/SWAP.HIVE. While the project is still operating, however, I'll also be focused on continuing to grow our holding of HSBIDAO. Although I mentioned yesterday that the HIVE-for-HP delegation service with @ecency seemed to provide the best HIVE returns, on looking more closely, I realized that delegating to Bradley (@bradleyarrow) actually provides even higher HIVE returns, so beginning to delegate HP to his account over time is also in my plans. Sadly none of this will be a quick process. It's going to take time to rebuild our income streams, but you have my word that I will not give up, that I'll do my best, and that we'll reinstate our distribution of HIVE as soon as it's feasible. I'll write an official post about all this on one of our community accounts as soon as I'm able.

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first, after which I made a quick food-supply run to Tutu's to restock Wabisabi. With those completed, I took a quick break up at the Flow House, before grabbing a shovel and an o-o bar to go dig a round of planting holes in the durian orchard. Once I finished that up for the day, I took a shower, 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 around 8:45PM, and after scanning my X feed for a good while, I finally made myself go to bed by 11:30PM. I woke up about 7:45AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, helping Ano to unload his truck after his Friday coconut-harvesting trip and reload it for the Sunday market, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12:30PM, so it's a great 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 some photography for my posts, and then on some 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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