I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1537 - 36.5k HP Surpassed, and Staking All DAB to Boost DBOND - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, October 3, 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 8 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Well, as I was expecting, I blew past 36,500 Hive Power yesterday afternoon, and given that it's Sunday, I should cross 36,600 Hive Power by around the middle of the coming week. It really is incredible to me just how quickly that my Hive Power is growing now, and that's a very good thing, because I need it to grow a whole lot more, and a whole lot more quickly, as I work toward Orca Level.

I've been considering the idea of staking all the liquid DAB on my own account, and on our WAAT (We Are Alive Tribe) accounts too, to leverage it more strongly to boost staked DBOND growth, which is not only a 1:1 HIVE-backed token, but also how DAB is generated. The downside of doing this is that all HIVE income would temporarily stop from this source, since that comes from liquid DAB, with the upside being that a good bit more DBOND would be produced, which would then generate even more liquid DAB. This is a slightly more long-term strategy, but one that offers the greatest benefits over time.

As I was writing about this, I decided just to get it done, so all the liquid DAB on my own account, and on @aliveandthriving and @aliveandsocial (after balancing the amounts between the two), has now been staked. This puts me, and us, into a 100%-DBOND-leveraging mode, which will end up generating DBOND and DAB a good bit more quickly. It's a short-term ouch, for a long-term yay.

On my own account at least, the lost daily HIVE income from staking my DAB is not really a concern, or an issue, since I've got HIVE coming in quite quickly, and from many sources. and it's also growing very rapidly on its own now. This decision is more of an issue on our WAAT accounts, since it temporarily cuts off one of our HIVE-income sources, but thankfully we do still have a fair bit of HIVE coming in daily to keep our HP delegation to @bradleyarrow growing, and with it our daily HIVE income.

With currently over 1,100 staked DBOND, and now almost 209 staked DAB on my own account, my weekly income in both of these tokens should increase nicely, which is exactly what I want. One very useful aspect of DAB is that it only has a one-day unstaking period, so it's a very quick process, which makes things so much easier. The #1 DBOND holder-staker on the DBOND richlist is our friend @lbi-dab, with over 16k staked DBOND, so that's my target, and the reason that I'm now so focused on strongly increasing my already respectable DBOND income.

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 that completed, I headed to Tutu's with Michael, to restock and reorganize our dry goods, after new shelving was built. Upon wrapping up that task, I took a quick break up at the Flow House, after which I went to the Ka to do a little bodywork on Ano (at his request). When that was finally finished, and after eating a few abiu that Ano had just harvested, I went to Wabisabi to heat up some leftover food for myself, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the small temporary fridge, before heading back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to work with Hermes a bit more. I got through all of my notifications by just before 9:15AM, and after one more round of work with Hermes, I went to bed by 11:45AM. I woke up by a little after 7:30AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write this post, and to work with Hermes a little more. It's now just after 1:30PM, so it's marvelous time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my numerous 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 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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