I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1235 - Update on the 'We Are Alive Tribe' Christmas Gift, and Setting My Sights on My 2026 Hive Goals - Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, December 14, 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: 17.72%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.094 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.999 USD

ALIVE Price in SWAP.HIVE:  0.02882031 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00139241 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 86,130.9 USD

LTC/Litecoin:  76.91 USD

Gold:  4,303.00 USD

Silver:  64.05 USD

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

While not many people responded to my question about how they'd like to receive their 'We Are Alive Tribe' Christmas gift, those that did love the idea, with most preferring to receive their nice HIVE bonus spread out over the year, as larger daily HIVE payouts in the ALIVE dividends, and to our HP delegators. So depending on how much HIVE that I end up getting when I withdraw our HBD from Savings and swap it toward the end of the week, we'll have an extra approximately 15 HIVE each week to distribute, on top of the usual 21/21 HIVE sent for the in the ALIVE dividends, and to our HP delegators, weekly. I think that everyone will notice and appreciate the boost.

As to the time frame, I'll claim the last round of Savings interest by Saturday/Sunday the 20th/21st, immediately withdraw it all from Savings, wait three days for it to unstake, swap it for HIVE, then park it on @aliveprojects as I hash the numbers. As soon as I know the numbers that we'll be using, I'll share that with Bjorn, so that he can hopefully update the payout scripts before the payouts to our HP delegators on Wednesday the 24th, at which point the increased HIVE payouts in both the ALIVE dividends, and to our HP delegators, will go live. Although I haven't tried to calculate the numbers yet, the daily and weekly payout boosts will be pretty notable.

As the Julian 12-month calendar nears the end of the year, and with my three primary 2025 Hive Goals having already been, or very soon to be achieved, it's also approaching the time for me to choose my next set of Hive Goals for 2026. I haven't given it too much thought yet, partly because two of the three Hive Goals that I chose for this year, HBD in Savings and Reputation, probably won't be tracked anymore, at lest for now, so besides HP, I'm not sure exactly what to choose yet.

To successfully achieve goals, I've definitely learned that staying focused on only a few at a time is important, so I want to make sure not to choose too many. This year also feels quite different than the previous one for me, with a good deal of adaptation, improvisation, and overcoming having been necessary due to numerous challenges, difficulties, and obstacles that presented themselves over the year. I, and the We Are Alive Tribe, still did quite well in 2025, for which I'm very grateful.

With the fiat-dollar price of HIVE continuing to fall, and the Hive Debt still inching upward, investing on Hive is not as straight forward, or as easy, as it once was. I don't know how to give up, or how not to leverage and grow assets, plus I still love and believe in this blockchain, so my only option is to continue forward, keeping my eyes locked on my, and on our whalehood goals.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and completing my once-weekly thorough asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe, very late indeed, by just before 3:45PPM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. With that completed to my satisfaction, I did a few important small chores, including watering some plants that I had just recently planted along both sides of the Flow House trail. Lately on Sundays I've really just been trying to relax and enjoy a mellow day, while still getting a few necessary things done. After watering plants, I heated 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 about 8PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by just after 11PM. I work up just before 7:30AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, returning to the Flow House to write and publish My 185th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: My Last Primary 2025 Hive Goal to Be Achieved in 3 Days! post, and then to begin writing this post. It's now just before 1:45PM, so it's a really good time to wrap this up, so that I may get 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 community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition of these posts! 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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