Maria talks about gaining a deeper understanding of WHY she is in the “in-between” right now, instead of soaking up the sun on a beautiful beach in Portugal or sipping wine in front of the Eiffel tower. Turns out, when an atom bomb gets unceremoniously dropped on your life, you gotta spend some time cleaning up before you can build a shiny new city on Ground Zero.

“Spend some time cleaning up” as in clear out every last chunk of charred ruin, right down to the foundations of the old buildings, and have a nice, open, level ground to work on. AND THEN, have a detailed schematic of what you want your new city to look like before you start building. WELL OK THEN. Make me do the work, why dontcha?