I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1472 - My Mega Birthday HPUD Powerup Is Today! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, July 30, 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: 27.24%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0426 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.988 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.01107029 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.18417245 ALIVE 

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Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #123 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#97 (among active witnesses only)/831k HP in votes/41 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Today, July 31st, is my birthday, and in just a few hours time, somewhere in the early evening, I'll be powering up my hefty chunk of 13.7k+ HIVE for the August HPUD. If I were to power up this sizeable amount of HIVE right now, I'd have just over 34,680 HP, so by the time I actually do power up my HIVE later this evening, my resulting HP will be even more. Not quite to 35k HP, but close.

As I've mentioned, this powerup today will be my largest to date. I had incorrectly thought that my previous largest powerup was around 7.6k HIVE, but after looking back through years of my HPUD posts, I realized that my actual previous largest powerup was around 2.7k HIVE, so this powerup today will be many times anything that I've powered up before.

At 34.5-35k HP I'll be gaining about 250 HP per week, and around 1,000 HP per month, so reaching Orca Level will definitely be in sight, even though I will still have a way to go yet. With how low HIVE's price is, how high the Hive Debt and HIVE APR are, and my monthly HPUD powerups, I think that things will go quite quickly.

On the 'We Are Alive Tribe' front, last night I began to implement my new goal of per-account sustainability, both in terms of ALIVE tokens, and eventually for HIVE too. I sent 50 ALIVEM each to @aliveandsocial (to cover our weekly ALIVE payouts to AP delegators), @youarealive (to cover our tipping bot) @alive.chat (to cover contest needs), and @heartbeatvault01 (to get ALIVE growing on that account to stake, and for the ALIVE pools), and I split the liquid DAB (which pays out HIVE daily for holding) on @aliveandthriving evenly between it (to work toward covering the HIVE sent out in our ALIVE dividends) and @aliveandsocial (to work toward covering the HIVE payouts to our HP delegators), to start growing independent HIVE incomes on both accounts. Once I get the HP delegation on @aliveandthriving to Bradley's account, @bradleyarrow, to a good level, I'll likely begin to focus delegating HP to Bradley on @aliveandsocial as well.

I'm working to get each of these accounts as self-sufficient and sustainable in and of themselves as possible, so that I eventually won't have to send assets to them each week, it will just happen automatically. On the HIVE side of the equation, that's still going to take a bit of time, but it's getting closer every day.

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2:30PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first, after which I helped Braja with a task at her place, I replaced the battery in the VW (with Kana's help), and I completely redid the ethernet connection between the Bali Hut and Elohi's hut with higher-quality cable (to improve his gameplay latency/lag). Once I had all those completed, I made myself some food in Wabisabi (and for Avi who's now paying me to do so for him too), I collected my 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 a bit after 10PM, and after scanning my X feed did a while, I went to bed by around 11:45PM. I woke up quite early, around 6:15AM, having slept fairly well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 12PM, 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 enjoying the rest of my birthday. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my August HPUD post later this evening, and the next version 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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