I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1234 - A Christmas Gift to Our 'We Are Alive Tribe' Community! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, December 13. 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 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: 17.59%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.099 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.946 USD

ALIVE Price in SWAP.HIVE: 0.02621315 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00143196 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 88,707.85 USD

LTC/Litecoin: 79.23 USD 

Gold: 4,300.00 USD 

Silver: 61.94 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #152 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#114 (among active witnesses only)/212,144.872 HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Well, my friends, I had another idea today of a way to give back to our beloved 'We Are Alive Tribe' community, and since Christmas is close, it will be a (big) Christmas gift, which could be given in one of two different ways. I'll give the two choices shortly, but first I want share the original idea first. There are presently almost 80 HBD, that I've collected over the last year, accruing interest in Savings on @aliveandthriving, with the next round of interest to be claimed in one week's time, right before Christmas. My idea is to withdraw the 80ish HBD from Savings, swap it for HIVE, which at the present price would give about 790+ HIVE, and then add that to a special one-day Christmas payout to our ALIVE holders and stakers, and to our HP and AP delegators. That would be one heck of a payout, I must say!

The twist that came to me around this idea, shortly after it originally coming into my mind, is instead of sending that huge amount of HIVE out on just one day, to rather spread it out across the whole next year, which would give us about 15+ bonus HIVE that we'd be able to send out to everyone each week, in addition to the present 2X21+2 HIVE that are part of our usual daily and weekly payouts, so that means that we'd have a total weekly allotment of 59 HIVE to send out every week to our ALIVE holders and stakers, and to our HP delegators. Not bad, eh?

While I love both twists on this idea, spreading the payouts out over the year would probably have more long-term benefit to the community, plus it would also help to stabilize the price of ALIVE more than sending everything out all at once, so I'm inclined to go that route, but I want to hear from our community, all of you, about which way of doing it you'd appreciate more.

Mind you, all the above-mentioned HIVE is not even counting the new HIVE that I'm working to generate as I further build and flesh out our 'We Are Alive Tribe' financial infrastructure, so hopefully we'll end up with even more HIVE with which to play as the new year progresses. I don't know if I'll be able to accumulate as much HBD in Savings as I did this year, to be able to do this for another round the year after next, but I'll certainly do my best.

So what do you think, my friends, which option do you like more? One lump sum would definitely be great, but consistent income over time is also pretty sweet. How would you like your Christmas gift?

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just before 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. With that completed to my satisfaction, I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and I tidied up the area a bit. Right after that, I enlisted Avi to help me change the water filters for the upper side of the property, which just so happen to be directly over our solar-electrical batteries (don't ask...lol!), so the use of a bin to catch the water was a necessity. Once we had that done successfully, I did a supply run to Tutu's for the Landing, then I headed back to the Landing to make a batch of my special spiced-and-seasoned popcorn. After nibbling on that for a short bit, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, then I got my machete and I walked to the other side of the property, to clear what was left of Melekai's very-overgrown fenced garden, that had been taken over by weeds (all important and useful, just not in the garden). I got most of it cleared, but I had to stop when I was working on the last corner, as I ran into a mass of little fire ants, which made continuing intolerable. After heading straight to the shower, I heated myself up some leftover food that I had in the Landing fridge, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I made my way back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks. I got everything done by just before 10PM, at which point I went to go collect a small bowl of my yummy popcorn from the Landing, on which I nibbled as I completed my last round of asset management for the night, finally going to sleep just after 11PM. I woke up just after 5:30AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1PM, so it's a wonderful time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and to my Sunday thorough 'We Are Alive Tribe' asset management, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update tomorrow morning, and the next expression of these posts tomorrow afternoon! 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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