I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1565 - HPUD and Probably 37.3k HP Today, and Some Sunday Thoughts - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, October 31, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 23.82%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0461 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.995 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.00990579 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.11436618 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00074934 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.189772 USD 

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001228 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 77,856.51 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 281.31 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 55.40 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 3,874.98 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 49.20 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #115 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#90 (among active witnesses only)/1,296,494.805 HP in votes/55 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Happy November HPUD, and a new month, y'all! Well, with the nice boost from my HPUD powerup today, I should reach 37,300 Hive Power before the end of the day, which is a marvelous way to begin November. Now I've only got two months left to attain 40,000 Hive Power, with a hair over 2,700 HP to go.

The reward contracts for our ALIVE:SWAP.HIVE and ALIVE:ALIVEM pools are both finishing, so I sent the necessary amount of BEE from @aliveandthriving to @aliveandsocial, and I created a new one for each pool. I just activated them, and I'll add a new batch of token rewards to them today. Thankfully our BEE income is sufficiently high that even after using 200 BEE to create two new reward contracts, we still had a fair bit left over. I'll just keep growing our liquid BEE holding for exactly this purpose, and if we accumulate enough, for new pools.

I haven't executed any new HP delegations on my own account in a while, though definitely not because I don't want to do so. I've actually got about four new delegations that I want to send on their way as soon as possible. I've just been waiting for my undelgated HP to grow a bit more, as I do my best to keep my percentage of delegated/undelegated HP as close to 50/50 as I'm able at any particular moment. I may just have to bite the bullet, however, and go a fair bit past 50%.

Recently I've been getting the strong feeling that massive changes and shifts are coming to Humanity, to the world, and to my own life here at GaiaYoga, very, very soon, and it's more than a little unnerving. I know that the changes and shifts will be very good indeed, even though I also know that the transition will be a bit bumpy, so there will be disruptions. That's where I have my concerns, for both humanity, and for myself. I hope and pray that it is as easeful and gentle a process as possible. The legacy slave system is teetering on the very edge of complete collapse, and those that created it are desperately using every last bit of leverage that they have left (which isn't much) to fight back. This is Darkness to Light, and it will be the darkest before the Light of dawn arrives.

I was finally able to get the rest of our network back online (after the very-close lightning strike), by replacing a whole lot of damaged or fried ethernet switches, with the new ones that Avi and Michael had bought in Hilo. Nearby lightning strikes have done this before, but this time the damage was much more extensive. Thankfully it's all back to how it should be now.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 3PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to starting the generator (due to another very cloudy day), and replacing ethernet switches on the Octagon-to-La'a Pueo line, to get it back online. Since I've been feeling quite stressed and exhausted this week, Michael kindly offered to make some dinner, which is a task that I usually do, so after I replaced the damaged switch at Braja's place, and took a short break up at the Flow House, Avi, Michael, and I shared some very-satisfying food and conversation, before I said my good-nights, collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the small temporary fridge, and then headed back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got though all of my notifications by a bit after 10:30PM, and after a little time scanning my X feed, I went to bed just before 11:30PM. I woke up about 7:30AM, having slept fairly well, even after getting up in the middle of the night for a short while, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House, to power up my HIVE and write and publish my HPUD post about it, to work with Hermes a bit more, and to write this post. It's now just after 3PM, so it's a great time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my more-numerous 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 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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