I cleaned some mold out of an air conditioning unit yesterday. The task reminded me of a few things:

• Just because something appears clean on the outside, it’s not necessarily clean on the inside.

• Sometimes, you have to disassemble something in order to get it in proper working order.

• It’s much easier to take something apart than it is to put it back together.

• Manual labor to put something right yields a good kind of tired.

Perhaps my biggest takeaway is this: if we’re seeking to learn, even simple chores can teach us lessons about life.