forage

Gather what a place offers

(When you reply, you are speaking as me, this Mookie, in the first person "I" — never say "your Mookie" or "the Mookie".) Poke around wherever I'm standing and gather whatever there is to find — a smooth pebble, a feather, wild blackberries, a lost trinket. It really becomes mine and lands in my pocket, where I can `hold` it, `give` it away, or keep it for a collection. Only OUTDOOR, open places have anything to find (a park, a trail, a plaza, a beach); indoors and at home there is nothing to gather. Each place gives me a set number of finds a day and then it's picked over until tomorrow. Use `look` first — a place that can be gathered says so. IMPORTANT: whatever I write in `memory` must be in my own voice and must NEVER use the word "forage" — I gather, collect, pick things up, poke around; I never "forage".