I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1324 - Flow House Evacuation, and an Extraordinarily Difficult Day - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, March 13, 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 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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If you saw my post yesterday, you know that we've been getting torrential rains, and with gale-force winds to boot. I wasn't able to sleep at all last night due to the sound of the intense rain and winds. I didn't sleep well the night before either, so my exhaustion is palpable. The relentless waves of extremely strong winds are also slowly tearing the Flow House apart, with two main points of structural failure already now present. I did my best to secure things the best that I could, but with it becoming increasingly difficult to keep my technology dry and safe, I found it necessary to evacuate the Flow House this morning.

On top of that, the roof to the doghouse, which is our internet access point, tore half way off the frame, and the solar electrical system crashed, but not due to low batteries, but rather to an electrical short in the system, so it won't turn back on at all. This has been an over-the-top, ridiculously difficult, stressful, and unpleasant day so far, and the rains and wind just don't stop. It's really good that we can't flood here, due to this part of the Island being so new, with only porous lava below us, because I'm pretty sure that we're past a foot of rain by this point.

It's only because of my tenacious and rock-solid commitment and dedication that this daily post is even being written, because there are a lot of figurative fires to put out presently. It's important, so I always make it happen, no matter what, even amidst system failures and evacuation.

I can't sleep in the Flow House tonight, because almost everything is completely soaked, including my bed, and as of the moment I have no idea idea exactly where I'll be sleeping. I started writing this in the new kitchen, just after rescuing my technology in two large plastic bins, and now after a quick relocation, some network troubleshooting (I had to swap out a switch), and getting the Qortal node on my laptop back online (thankfully we were able to get the electricity back on again), I'm now finishing this post in the Casbah, which is thankfully mostly dry, and it has internet.

The Flow House will need some notable structural repairs before I could easily live in it again, which really concerns me, because it's my private space for giving sessions, and for my online work, Hive included, as well as being where I sleep. I feel very uprooted at the moment, as I don't presently have a personal space just for me, and I have no idea how it's going to go over the next few days and weeks. I know that I really need to sleep well tonight. Some beautifully sunny and warm days would also be lovely.

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, a little after 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts (thankfully mostly not in the rain), after which I made a quite food-supply run to Tutu's, to restock the new kitchen, then I prepared another batch of my special spiced-and-seasoned popcorn, for myself and others to enjoy over the next few days. With how rainy it was, I had zero motivation to work outside, other than babysitting the generator, which I had running for most of the day. After a few more more-indoor jungle-community tasks, I finally made myself some food (a spiced-and-seasoned beef burger, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, smoked hot sauce, and Dijon mustard) in the new kitchen, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. The intense wind and rain made it very unpleasant, but I got through everything by just before 10PM, and after some asset management, and perusing Qortal and X for a bit, I went to bed by around 11:30PM. Sadly, as I mentioned above, I wasn't able to sleep, and the whole morning was pretty hellish. I finally got up around 6:30AM, feeling absolutely exhausted, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the new kitchen, then returning to the Flow House to attempt to write this post, which did not go well at all. It's now just before 2PM, so it's an excellent time to wrap the up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before focusing on some photography for my posts, and figuring out where I'm sleeping tonight. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation 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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