What Parts of You Should You Leave Behind?

Covid, quarantine and a brand new life are forcing that question. What parts of an old life belong in this new one?

I had forgotten that my dining room table, which had been repurposed as a desk when I moved to Eugene last year, came apart. The legs, not just the leaf, which I’d already removed. I was wrestling the damned thing down my hallway, breaking the hallway night lights and knocking my carefully-hung paintings askew.