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Beautiful post! I didn’t know about this. Using elements in nature to alert and act as symbols of something bad. If we think deeply, hasn’t nature being sending and showing us those alerts all the time? I think it did. The thing is that, we humans, don’t pay attention to it. Only, sometimes, when it is too late.

Hongersteine, a beautiful word too. You know that my mother used to say that when there is hunger and nothing to eat, people will eat even stones. Being born in the 30’s and having grown up within the turmoil of the 40’s must have been the reason why such a saying was illustrative of what people had to endure. Hunger. In my country, Portugal, not because of climatic reasons but other reasons.

But maybe this saying is associated by whatever reason with your river stones. It is a nice thought, if it was. The bond of people in bad times.

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