Wednesday morning---from "darkness into light"

Yesterday might have been a breakthrough day--why? A totally different sleep pattern.
  Let's back up: my apartment was cleaned, yesterday.  It happens every four weeks---a woman who was recommended by my last "cleaner" has  been coming for about a year. As a person she is a little standoffish---maybe shy, but she does an incredible job cleaning the apartment. Try to imagine what it was like before she came---papers, books, paper towels strewn all over the place. The events of the past few weeks--the doctor's visits, the medical revelations, the appointment slips--all probably added to this maddening chaos. I probably throw away half of what I can.
   She comes: I leave the apartment for about an hour and a half---I return and...."voila!" I don't even recognize the space. She has transformed it into an apartment that one would think a rational person lives in. Everything in order---no dirt---amazing! A sigh of relief from me. The rest of the day would be very peaceful.
   And yes, a calm and sense of completion came over me---I rested for a little while, then went out to buy food---but for the first time it seemed that my body and my brain were in harmony---both wanted to sleep. It went even further into the evening, and that difficult time for me--from about 1 A.M. to 4:30 A.M, ---often a time when my body says "rest" and my brain says "don't bug me, I am restless", well, believe it or not, I slept through most of that. I can't remember the last time that happened. It is now around 6:30 and I am feeling ready to go. What's next?  Really can't say, remember, my body goes in cycles--I don't know what the next change will be. I do know that sleeping this way for the first time in so long has left me incredibly calmer.
    While the apartment was being cleaned I was at Barnes and Noble, bought Shakespeare's Richard II; I think listening to the Public Theater virtual performance last week encouraged me to explore the play again. The copy that I bought has a very complete analysis of the play, in addition to the play itself. I admired a lot of the virtual reading last week (probably very hard to put together) but I think there is so much more ground that they did not cover. Well, the play is mine now, and I have plenty of time to read or consider it.
   The day begins---will report soon.