I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1480 - 34.9k HP Today, and Steady Growth of 'We Are Alive Tribe' Assets and Income - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, August 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: 27.47%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0418 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.976 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.010031 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.174616 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00073585 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.220281 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.000119 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 64,977.60 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 216.72 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 45.865 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,342.23 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 63.63 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #123 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#97 (among active witnesses only)/8314k HP in votes/41 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

At the moment I'm sitting on the edge of 34,900 Hive Power, which I'll easily surpass today, so it's a certainty that I'll blow past 35,000 Hive Power before the end of the coming week. I remember when numbers like that seemed huge to me. Now I just keep my eyes on Whale Level, and keep going no matter what. I know that Orca Level is next in line, and that will come soon enough, but reaching Whale Level is the goal that I'm determined to make happen, so that's where I keep my focus.

This rapidly-increasing Hive Power means that I'll have continually more to delegate, which will keep increasing my income in various assets, and with it, my growth. Because I've diversified the investments on my own account to such a degree, even with several sources of income drying up over the past year, I hardly notice it. That's something that I'm still working to fully implement for the We Are Alive Tribe, and while I've come a long way in that regard, I've still got quite a long way to go.

Our two most rapidly-growing sources of income currently are the HIVE that we receive from our equally rapidly-increasing HP delegation to Bradley, @bradleyarrow, and the HSBIDAO that we receive from our two HP delegations to @steembasicincome. DBOND ana DAB are also still growing, though a bit more slowly, which is exactly why soon I'll be loaning some of my weekly DAB income to @aliveandthriving and @aliveandsocial, and staking the same amount that I send, to accelerate the process.

I've been very regularly collecting and sending all incoming HIVE and HSBIDAO to @aliveandthriving, the first to power up and delegate to Bradley, and the second to augment and quicken the growth of our HSBIDAO holding. My regular, consistent action over time goes a very long way in this regard, with both increasing surprisingly rapidly. I still have a way to go, however.

The more that I'm able to diversify the We Are Alive Tribe's sources of income, the more resilient we'll be when faced with the loss of individual income streams. I was unsuccessful in my first, slower attempt at doing this before we lost the majority of our daily and weekly HIVE income within a short period of time, which is why I'm determined to not allow that to happen again. I know that it sucks that we had to pause the daily HIVE payouts in our ALIVE dividends, but what I'm focused on doing now is to make our economic and financial foundation much stronger and more solid than it was before, it will just take me some time, which I'm working to shorten as much as possible.

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just before 2:45PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. With a nice batch of shots taken, I went to lay in the sunshine on the trampoline for a little while, after which I got my machete and went on a banana hunt around the property in search of harvestable bananas (I found 3 big racks). After that I found myself wrapped up in a conversation with Avi and Becca in Tutu's, and with Marta (a new fellow who's staying at GaiaYoga for a bit) too, before finally heading to Wabisabi to make Avi (who's paying me to do so) and myself some food, to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and then to return to the Flow House to scan my X feed a bit more, and to begin on my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just after 9PM, and after another scan of my X feed, I went to bed by about 11:45PM. I woke up by just before 7AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then heading back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12:45PM, 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 may also attend a Kirtan gathering being held just down the road, though I haven't decided yet. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

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