I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #936 - 8,900 HP Surpassed, and BPUD Today! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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 5 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I'm happy to report that I crossed the threshold of 8,900 Hive Power early yesterday evening, right on schedule, and much to my satisfaction. I presently have fewer than 97 HP to go until I reach 9,000 Hive Power, and with the March HPUD coming soon, I'll pass that notable milestone very soon indeed. I haven't made any major investments into my Hive Power since my mega-powerup to dolphin level on the December 2023 HPUD, and it's been growing at a pretty rapid rate, but it could be faster, and I do plan on doing another mega-powerup at some point this year, which will very hopefully allow me to reach my 2025 Hive goal of 15,000 Hive Power.

I gain a little over 150 HP per month generally, and while that is quite good, it's definitely growing more slowly than I'd like, so some good boosting is in order to augment that a bit, which I intend to do via solid income tokens and delegations. I focus on boosting my asset income in one area at a time, with that focus presently being on diesel/liquidity pools, since that is still my weakest one when compared to the others. My liquidity in various excellent pools is growing quickly, however!

Back on the subject of powering up, BPUD (BBHO Powerup Day) is today (in my time zone), and I'm ready with presently 2,466.32 BBHO to power up at some point after 2PM, which came from my DRIP devestment. It will likely end up exceeding this, but with the liquid and staked BBHO that I have at the moment, I would end up with 4,528.341 staked BBHO, which will get me quite close to my goal of 5,000 staked BBHO. It's pretty cool that I'll be staking a fair bit more BBHO than I presently have staked, 2,466.32 compared to 2,062.021. That means that my weekly DUO income should double, which would be quite lovely!

Bradley has done an incredible job with his project, and with his BBH, BBHM, and BBHO tokens (all of which are now income tokens), and given his tenacious commitment that even rivals my own, I'll continue to invest strongly in his assets, and to support him in his endeavors, as much as I'm able as I grow my own. His BBH project is among the top best projects on the Blockchain, along with other excellent ones like our own beloved Alive Tribe project, as well as the BRO, CENT, DUO, INCOME, LOLZ, SORT, and Spinvest projects, all topping my list, just to name a few that come to mind. When I begin supporting projects, I start paying very close to attention to how they are run, as well as getting to know the people heading them. If things are done well, I continue with my investment and support. If not, I don't, it's as simple as that. How people do anything, is how they do everything.

As I've said before, our investments in layer 1 represent our belief and trust in the Blockchain technology itself, while our investments in layer 2 represent our belief and trust in the people of the Blockchain. That's why it's so important to really get to know the people who are running the various layer-2 projects. If we value our investments, this is absolutely essential.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, once I had finished my Hive tasks, just after 1:30PM, focusing first on some photography for these posts, straining and blending kefir in the Landing, and then collecting a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food. With all that done, I took a short asset-management break up at the Flow House, got two more 5-gallon buckets with lids from Tutu's for soil-sifting in my old nursery, and finally I attended the meeting that had been scheduled with the leadership council. The meeting was frustrating, with it very obvious that we are not on the same page, or even in the same domain. I don't want to go into details here, but this may well catalyze me leaving GaiaYoga at some point soon. I don't know yet. After the meeting, I talked with Braja (who attended) for a while, who's assisting me in getting my new replacement laptop. After talking with her, I stopped by the Landing to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to dive into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done by just about 11PM, and after some asset-management, and a scan of my X feed, I went to bed, later then I had intended, around 12:45AM. I woke up about 7:30AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, beginning on this post, getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, and then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 12:45PM, so a great time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before preparing for my session with Riana at 1:30PM. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my entry for the Shadow Hunters Contest later this evening, and the next version of this post tomorrow! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 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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