All That's Left is the Apple Pie

What a shake-down it's been lately; sorrow swept in, and with it much chaos. It thoroughly blew up the inside of my house. Shit that I'd been hanging onto with the barest of fingertips snatched from my grip. Things that I had tried to keep in existence, thrashed from the fireplace. It's a shame that it took such depth of grief to clean up. The loss of a person so important, and who left in such a way that I'm not sure how long it will take to understand. Her chapter in my life sits in a red book on a bookshelf *over there*. From time to time I am sure I will revisit as I sit in my comfy rocking chair with the bay window behind and the safest and prettiest of views behind that.

I feel a settling. Am liking the change; embracing the deeper knowing; a new level of self-understanding.

Aware, too, of the layer of hurt that remains as if not all the junk was swept away. Some resemblance of certain things remain. And I am a terrible cleaner or picker-upper; they will likely stay.

I feel the cool, clean, new interior. It feels workable, I can do something here without the old restraint.

Sometimes you go down in order to go up. Or is it the other way around? You blow up to dive down, maybe? Either way, what's left is most welcome. For me, I see apple pie on a farmhouse kitchen table. I will chow down every bite and savor every sweet morsel.

And all around I will hear classical music.