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WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK.. (1) Hidden path to Sweet Thing falls, hiking where earth is the bun, the frosting? moss. Rushing waters cry out, "take a bite!" .. (2) Moonlight entering the window, a solitary shadow rolls to the unoccupied side of the bed.. (3) Sweeping corners of the room, the broom found that missing bamboo fork, my camouflaged ring and some dusty memories of us.. (4) tail gate market purchase list- purple potatos, deep green broccolettes, crinkly napa leaves, pink lady apples, but not the farmstead cheese, pinching dollars, maybe next season.. (5) "I like your hat." Hats..his musty beret with a button "I LIKE IKE", her lively patchwork bucket hat handstitched wearable art, a Tilly that protects in all longitudes, altitudes and languages, African kufi cap, silk headwrap, my second hand leather floppy with feather, fossil, dragon lens, worry doll, wishbone.. A hat personifies where we have been and where we long to be.. (6) How many stairs? about a thousand winding up the face of that cliff at Chimney Rock, step, step up, bright yellow changing leaves, steps along the sparkling Gneiss formation, step up, step to sweeping views at top of chimney, more steps to the opera box overhang, steps up to Exclamation point, turn around now to step down past the lower overlooks, tired? downstairs toward the parking lot, down, down to the base of this cliff where the creek runs, no more stairs, none, none in the underground tunnel that leads to the park elevator, going up.. (7) My usual routine- soak the french lentils for making sprouts, begin alternate nostril breathing while they soak, slap to condition knees and tighten facial muscles, do kungfu shuffling, step, step, pound foot, kick back, elbow strike, feed the iguana, steep loquat leaf tea, stroll past cemetery to transit stop, banking errand, build magnet castle with granddaughter, pickup grandson at school bus, droid chatter, chop ginger root, prepare dinner omelet using last week's sprouts.