There, Much Better

The green table used to sit in the middle of my aunt's dining room; there was no pathway around it. You couldn't see the table cloth. Chairs around it were piled so high with clothes, you couldn't see the table, either. The entire room was packed. Now everything is packed into many, many, many garbage bags. So often when I've been here, I'm reminded of a Lily Tomlin joke: When she bought a new waste paper basket, they put it into a bag so she could bring it home. When she got home, she took it out of the bag and put the bag into it.