Puzzle Pieces

Spent most of my life making homes of places
with pictures and drapes
Easy up
Easy down
Covering up white walls and white blinds
with a collection growing over the years
Each new place varying only by layout and floorplan
Different sight lines
but same drapes
same pictures
As easily removed and packed up
as I was

Now I look around our first home
our own house
six months after the last move
All those things are still packed away
out in the garage
Books still in boxes
Shelves in pieces propped in a corner
White blinds and walls begging for a fresh coat of paint
stark against furniture haphazardly arranged around the TV
Nearly all color restricted to toys, crayons and books
littering tables and empty shelves
And the half-finished puzzle
our son has left on the coffee table