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Casual go after a nap. This day has been lazy — fire-sitting, fuzzy conversation, leftovers. Recharging and welcome.

I learned Huang Pian is the larger, older leaves further down the pu’erh-pick that sometimes don’t look uniform enough after processing, get pulled by the farmer, and generally don’t go to market. “Yellow leaves,” farmer’s choice. Often not aged, so this is a treat.

Stone basement, old cedar paneling, tobacco. Scent memory like I’m about to spend way too much money on antique Pyrex bowls. Cooling menthol, with easy astringency in later steeps. Pours pinkish-tan to transparent caramel. Belly gurgles.

Hm.