I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1489 - A Very UnSundaylike Sunday, and 35.1k HP Surpassed - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, August 16, 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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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Although yesterday was Sunday, since Hurricane Lala passed through our area the day before, it was a decidedly unSundaylike Sunday to to say the least, with me spending most of my day on assisting with the cleanup and repairs. I was so busy most of the day that I even forgot that it was Sunday.

Between assisting with troubleshooting one section of our jungle electrical system, clearing fallen trees from the road out, and repairing damage to the Doghouse (how we get internet), my Sunday basically disappeared in the blink of an eye, under a mountain of important tasks. One structure, the Bedouin, is now pretty much uninhabitable, and requires substantial work to rehabilitate.

There was also no sun to be seen yesterday, with rain continuing on and off, so it was another wet one. There is a hint of sun peeking through the clouds today, so there's some hope! We've had four days of clouds and rain, so I'm exceedingly ready for the sunshine!

I still have to roll the rain tarps back up at the Flow House. I left them down yesterday while it continued to rain, but with the sun beginning to make an appearance, I'll do it after I finish up with my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks later in the afternoon.

On a positive note, and on a slightly different topic, I blew past 35,100 HP yesterday afternoon, which means that I'll certainly surpass 35,200 HP before the end of the week. HP is growing faster than ever, with the APR now around 5.32%, so my new goal of 40,000 HP before the end of the year is quite plausible indeed.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just after 1PM, giving my first two hours to assisting with clearing a bunch of fallen trees from the dirt road that leads in and out of GaiaYoga. With that finally completed, and after a short break, and some photography for my posts, I assisted Ano with repairing the Doghouse out on the lava, which took about another hour. Once we had that done, I jumped into my second round of helping to troubleshoot an electrical line that kept shorting out, to complement my morning round. Sadly we weren't able to resolve that before exhaustion finally kicked in and we had to call it quits for the day. After that, I headed to Wabisabi to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge (I didn't have the energy or motivation to make myself any food), and then back to the Flow House I went to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just before 10PM, and after scanning my X feed for a short bit, I went to bed by around 10:30PM. I woke up around 2AM, and unable to sleep, I got a few small tasks done on my laptop, before making another attempt at sleep. I woke up again just after 7:15AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to begin this post. It's now just after 1:15PM, 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 yaʻll so very much! Until my Weekly-Goals-and-Progress-Update post as soon as I'm able to do it, and the next expression 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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