RE: THREE WEEKS, TWO DAYS, AND ONE AGAINST MY WILL

That's lovely.
feels the warmth at the special effort of a haiku that touches a personal soft spot of affection and returns the affection

Gets encircled by warm affection

Glad you liked it!

Best way to get an understanding of it is to study trees directly and if possible get a small piece of wood of whatever trees you want to study. Then just cut into it, see how it responds to different ways of cutting and working. Play around that way. You'll get the best understanding of it's nature by doing that for each type. This is what I've done. It doesn't take long, especially if you have other woods to use as comparison for differences in personalities. I prefer books to videos for a few reasons, but direct experience beats both of those.

So I've been told. I have my basic understanding of the ones I have used to make instruments so far. There are some really tough to work out. And there's no other way to learn about their differences and plasticity than having them in your hands. I would go to a place where I could cut trees and that, but there aren't many safe places I can go I do that.

Origami too? You are quite something special there. Being in "the mind" is very draining. I find working with one's hands to be a cleansing, wholesome experience and becomes meditative. I always feel good after a day of working like that. The intellectual or work like that I find draining and it takes away rather than adds.

Yes, another quarantine-learned skill. It is an interesting and relaxing thing to do. And yes, doing to much mental work is draining. That's why people with heavy loads of it tend to go and get a physical activity to compensate and relax their tired walnut.

I'm always doing some little thing to myself here or there. It's due to lack of attention, not caring to pay attention, or a very strong distraction. I frankly don't care and don't even see it as clumsy, just as something that occurs and reminds me to pay more attention.

I guess it's like you say a lack of attention rather than clumsiness. But I get the idea being clumsy is not paying enough attention to the things you do. Maybe it's not like that at all. 😅