M Ljin

For me it is mostly muscle memory… once you know the notes, and the chords, it becomes intuitive, because the melody follows the shape of the chord. If ot doesn’t something may sound off. (Or maybe you want it to sound off?) But usually if they want you to play chords they will say what chord. If they don’t, it is up to you to make or not make any chord shape that fits.

Everyone gives birth
To their own mother, the Earth.
How strange the world is!

Endless in its gifts
Is Dung, the savior of life
Without which we’d starve.

Many native peoples of the plains built Earth Lodges.  I didn’t connect it until now, but they  confuse anthropologists because historically, earth bermed and pit houses are normally used seasonally in winter, and probably functioned as tornado protection.

I was wondering what kind of situation are you thinking of in regards to this, if there is any?

My thought is that usually the body understands how much of every nutrient it needs and feels hungry without it, except in the case of psychological derailments like stress. So any much prolonged feeling of being hungry and specifically unsated, I theorize, would be unsustainable in the long term and lead to poor health.

What about chestnuts? They fill the same nutritional role as grains; they are easy to grow and process. I eat acorns partly because there are no chestnuts around, and they are fattier, but they do require extensive soaking. Otherwise these two nuts are amazingly simple and easy to grow and use, and fill the role of grains.

For reference I think the first video (the king’s forest) was played with a high G.

How would you check the calories for foraged foods wbich often are difficult to find nutritional information on? Is “this looks like 1200 calories” enough evidence?

Also what is meant by “foraged food type”? Is this species, genus? Or is it more like root vegetable, shoots, greens, berries, seeds, etc?

I made it out of some scavenged green wood that I found discarded by loggers on a hike (beech I believe) and a dry elm twig from nearby. I might use hornbeam next time as it is stronger, but did not have any that was dry.

I also would use a different drill bit in the future as this one was not made for using by hand. It would also be nice to fit a bigger handle. I am afraid it might break after some heavy use because of the thinness and the wood type.