I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1467 - Attaining Orca Level Is Not That Far Off - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, July 25, 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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Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #123 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#98 (among active witnesses only)/827.8k HP in votes/38 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

The August HPUD is rapidly approaching, and I'm locked and loaded to power up the almost 13.8k HIVE currently sitting in my wallet. I have a lot of anticipation around this, because this will be my bar-none largest powerup to date, representing a leap of about 66.38% over my current stake. That's quite substantial. After my HPUD power, I'll have somewhere near 35k HP. As of this moment, if I powered up all the liquid HIVE sitting in my wallet, I'd have about 34,556 Hive Power. That number will likely grow a good bit more in the last 6 days before HPUD, as my liquid HIVE and HP continue to accumulate.

Even at just 34,556 HP, Orca Level is beginning to come into sight. If Orca Level presently begins at 61,922 HP, that means that I only have somewhere around 27,366 HP to go. If the rate of my HP growth were linear, then reaching this level would take me over 2 years, but HP growth is compounding and exponential, not linear, so Orca Level will indeed come before then. How much sooner, I can't yet say, but I'm pretty sure that I could get it down to perhaps a year and a half, so maybe by the end of next year.

Reaching Whale Level is my goal of course, and this upcoming HPUD powerup is going to help me get there a good bit more quickly, which makes me all the more determined. With whale-level HP, my vote weight might actually be useful, and I'd be able to delegate a whole lot more to more people and projects. I'd also have notably more weight regarding proposals and witness votes.

I've leveraged my assets and grown my account substantially over the past 4+ years, and even with the continual downturn of Hive's economy, and so many projects failing and folding because of it, I've still done very well for myself. It's never been just for me, of course, as I give equal focus to assisting, helping, and supporting others, especially those who are a part the We Are Alive Tribe.

I could have grown my account a fair bit more, but I've chosen to use a part of my assorted incomes to contribute, donate, and loan to the We Are Alive Tribe, to do my best to re-establish economic and financial sustainability for our community and tokens. Under the current conditions, that's quite a bugger, but I'm tenaciously determined to make it happen, one way or another. My August HPUD powerup will definitely assist these endeavors.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I had a nice batch of shots taken, I got my machete and I went for a round of banana harvesting, and to clear at various points on the property. When I had that finished for the day, I took a shower, turned on the generator (for the first time in months), prepared another batch of spiced-and-seasoned ground beef (for myself, and to donate some for the community meal), and collected my leftover superfood fire coffee, before heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. After getting through a good bit of my notifications, I paused to go attend the community meal down at Tutu's for a while, to enjoy some of the food that I helped make possible. Upon finally saying my good night, I made my way back to the Flow House to get back to Hive. I got through all of my notifications by just before 9PM, and after scanning my X feed for a while, I went to bed by a bit before 11:30PM. I woke up quite early, by about 5:30AM, having slept well, and upon noticing that the power was out, heading to Power Sharing to turn on the generator again (it should have been enough last night, but it wasn't for some reason), returning to the Flow House to get the Qortal node on my laptop back online, going to Wabisabi to prepare my superfood fire coffee, then making my way back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:15PM, so it's an excellent time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my numerous other important 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 some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update as soon as I'm able to do it, and the next edition of these posts tomorrow! 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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