I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1464 - My HBD Has Been Swapped for HIVE, and My Largest HPUD Powerup to Date Incoming! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, July 22, 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: 25.23%

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I've been mentioning in my last few posts, I've been closely watching the internal HIVE:HBD market since my HBD fully unstaked on Sunday, and this morning the prices began to move into a good range again, so I seized the opportunity, and I swapped my 656.080 HBD for just over 13,745 HIVE. Added to the 35+ liquid HIVE that had already accumulated in my wallet since my last HPUD powerup, I now have 13,782.332 HIVE waiting to be powered up on the August HPUD.

Even if I powered that nice chunk of HIVE up right now, with my current HP, I would have 34,479.265 Hive Power. I'm not powering it up yet, of course, so it's very likely that by the time that I do so on August 1st (I'll probably power it up on my birthday, July 31, sometime after 2PM), that my total HP will exceed 35,000 Hive Power. Not bad. It's not orca level, but it's still quite a notable leap.

I'm eager to power up this sizeable amount of HIVE as soon as possible, because I really don't like having assets sit around for any extended period or time, unleveraged and uninvested, but in this case I shall wait. This upcoming HPUD powerup will be my largest yet, and by several thousand HIVE. I believe that my largest to date was about 7.6k HIVE, so this will be my first time powering up more than 10k HIVE in one shot.

Extrapolating a bit, at 35k HP I'd probably gain about 250 HP per week, which would add up to about 1,000 HP per month, possibly even more. At that rate, orca level would not be all that far off.

As soon as I do power up this lovely chunk of HIVE at the end-beginning of the month, I'll immediately delegate a good portion of it, probably 10k HP, to @dab-vote, which added to my existing delegation, will quite notably increase my weekly DBOND income, which when staked will strongly increase my weekly DAB income. That liquid DAB pays out HIVE daily, of course, which is why I'll soon be regularly sending some of my weekly DAB income to @aliveandthriving, as a loan, until I'm able to get the We Are Alive Tribe's weekly HIVE income back to a good, sustainable place. Our HP delegation to Bradley and the daily HIVE income from that, and our HSBIDAO holding, are both also still growing too, so I'm coming at this from multiple directions. I could certainly use the extra HP on my own account from the DAB that I'll be loaning, but that is a contribution to, and a sacrifice for the We Are Alive Tribe, that I'm willing and grateful to make.

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by around 1PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session went very well, and we wrapped it up by around 6:15PM, after which I made myself some food, and collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, in Wabisabi, before heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just after 10PM, and after scanning my X feed for a while, I went to bed by 12AM. I woke up around 7:30AM, still feeling that I needed a little more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to swap my HBD for HIVE, and to write this post. It's now just after 12:30PM, so it's an excellent 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 expression 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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