If you are wanting to engage in being anti-racist, but you aren’t sure where to start, I am sharing what was my starting point in hopes that it might inspire your start. This is messy. This is uncomfortable. But this is necessary.

People want to harp on the junk drawer; look down on the collectors of whatchamacallits. But I say, the miasma may just be representative of a full life, often too busy for the extra moments it takes to put the pencils in the desk container, the take-out menus on the fridge, and the screwdriver back in the toolbox. It’s like a time capsule I didn’t know I was creating, and I’m not sure there isn’t some sense of pride one can attribute to the Museum of Life Since We Moved In.