I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #742 - 70 Reputation Reached, and HBD in Savings Now Down to 15% APR - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, August 8, 2024

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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

So yesterday, after 2 years, 10 months, and 16 days on the Blockchain, I attained a reputation of 70, much to my great satisfaction. This huge milestone, very interestingly, coincided with the top witnesses coming to consensus on a new APR for HBD in Savings, which is now at 15%, down from the 20% APR that had been in place for more than two years previously. While I did my best to grow my HBD in Savings as quickly as I could while the 20% APR was still in place, I was only able to save just over 320 HBD before the ARP switch. Not great, but better than nothing.

With the 20% APR I had just reached the point of receiving 5 HBD in monthly Savings interest. The drop to a 15% APR brought my monthly interest back to 4 HBD, so yeah, pretty bloody disheartening, but but at least I saved as much as I did. If I had a great deal more HBD in Savings when the APR changed, it wouldn't make that much practical difference, but with such a small sum the APR drop hits hard.

In terms of interest, 15% is still massively better than anything in the fiat world, so it's nothing at which to turn up our noses, but I will say that the 20% APR spoiled me more than a little. At a 20% APR, 120,000 HBD in Savings would yield 2,000 HBD in monthly interest, while at a 15% APR, that same 120,000 HBD would yield 1,500 HBD in monthly interest, so yeah, still good, but ouch!

Although the slower growth for HBD in Savings is not so much fun, nothing will particularly change in terms of how I'm managing it now, as it's still a very important asset, I'll just be acquiring it a bit more slowly. Changes come often to layer 2, occasionally in layer 1, and I just roll and flow with it all, adapting, improvising, and overcoming, regardless of anything that comes my way, rocking the Blockchain, every day, for the good of one (me) and all (y'all)!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, once I had finished up my Hive tasks, a little after 2:30PM. As I always try to do, I strained out and blended kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) first, before getting into anything else. After finishing with kefir, I took a few more photos for these posts, while the sun was out. Around 3:30PM I went to the fenced garden to continue with my thorough weeding job, that I started 3 days before, with assistance from Ano. We got most of the garden weeded, though there still remains a bit of more fine-tuned spot work, which I intend to do over the next few days. After weeding, I returned to the other side of the property again to take a shower, collect my leftover jar of superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and then head back to the Flow House, to get into my evening round of Hive tasks, and catching up on my always-overflowing notifications. While I wasn't able to get fully caught up last night, I did at least get close, to within 3 hours, before finally making myself go to bed just after 12:30PM. I woke up around 7AM, feeling like I needed more sleep, doing a round of token management, beginning on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee just before 9AM.

It's now just after 11:45AM, so a great time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first strain out and blend kefir, hopefully take more photos for these posts, take some shadow photos for my entry in the Shadow Hunters Contest (which I didn't do yesterday), and then land work, which of course will be back to the garden to keep weeding. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version of this post! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart, reignite my heart sun, and embody a solid, healthy masculine, allowing my electric fire to shine bright, no matter what others, especially women, say or do. 

2.) Bring myself and my life back into balance, integration, and wholeness. 

3.) Do regular (naked) integral practices again, alone or with others. 

4.) Dance regularly again.

5.) Work with natural entheogens (mushrooms, ganja, ayahuasca), with punctuated regularity, as a part of my healing process again. 

 6.) Get, and keep, regular deep, integral energy-body-tantric work healing sessions for women flowing again.

7.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again. 

8.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again.

9.) Live as an integral part of a juicy heart-resonant soul tribe community, with deep, coherent mutual and shared passion, purpose, mission, love, warmth, care, sweetness, reverence, respect, aliveness, admiration, excitement, enjoyment, playfulness, work, fun, laughter, attraction, and all-level connections and relationships. 

10.) Make love with the woman, or the women, that I love, every day, as a sacred devotional practice. 

11.) 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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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.