I feel good to be talking to you, as someone who knows more…

I feel good to be talking to you, as someone who knows more about treechat than me because even though I’m not part of crypto (except for learning about it) I hold great promise for it and that’s partly why I’m here. This feels like the right place to learn more and take part so thanks.  I relate to the idea of valuing information and communication which ties into being heard and understood and this conversation we are having in this space shows great possibilities for all that.  Thanks for sharing those pics and links to your pub, community and heritage. I am itching to meander off the first topic (treechat and earthen shelter) and say something on my mind that relates to those underground tunnels and those poem riddles but first I want to say that I see you already know so much. You know how durable these structures are and you know they are beautiful. You can feel the artisanship and craftsmanship in them. I’m assuming you might have ancestral ties to those who participated in their creation.  So you already know. I would like to guide you through the process of building a small scale model to rekindle your instincts, and re-familiarise  yourself with the ingredients, recipes, methods and considerations for building in life size to bring you closer to your dream of building and sculpting a cosy little place to recharge in.  I say rekindle and re familiarise because the knowledge is in our DNA awaiting to be awoken. When I first went to teach this at a preschool, during the intro, a little boy said he already knew this and I asked him who he learned it from and he said he taught himself and then I realised the same was true for me. We used to go down to the creek and make “mud pies” to dry on the rock without adult guidance and it was decades later that I found out what mud play really means and perhaps part of why children are instinctively drawn to it. Superior shelter creation!  It starts with playing with some subsoil and water to make mud.   You may know that the walls of the old “cob” homes in the Devon area are all earth with the white limestone render. Wood is only used for windows, doors, roof and furniture.  To answer your question about practicality i would say that thinking small - as in, “less is more,” addresses that issue, as the delight of the “cosiness factor” depends on a small space.   In terms of legitimacy - the word “heritage” says it all and I have concluded that industry (especially in its modern form) is the wrong (relatively new) vehicle for satisfying our shelter needs, so you when looking for legitimacy you are better to start off with heritage and then go deeper down to instincts. In order to create cosy superior shelter in a way thatpleases the soul and nurtures and protects us from abhorrent forms of adulteration, we need to follow the basic set of human values that we were born with, and which modern industry is at odds with. People naturally like to give to one another because it makes us feel good because at some level we see each other as a part of ourself, a part of our humanity and invoking this innate spirit of generosity is the key to creating shelter that delivers protection, security and freedom - it’s real purpose.  But industry sees us as consumers -something outside of itself to be preyed upon. If you were to yell out, at the top of your lungs, “Planned obsolescence eat your heart out!!!!” with a sarcastic evil toothy grin, in the moment when your new (expensive) house shows signs of falling apart already,  while you are simultaneously realising that your rent or mortgage payments are too high, taking away too much of your time and energy, and your shelter payment funds are indirectly being used (via the legacy banking system) to fund activities such as war you don’t believe in, then such an existential-angst-fuelled outburst would sum up where the voracious appetite of Industry is capable of taking us.  But I guess it takes being here at this juncture to be able to value the contents of this conversation and so perfect timing eh?  Please tell me more about what brought you here two years ago and where you see it going for you and tell me more about what you think of those tunnels under your town and what you think f the word “druids” which are mentioned in the poems.