Dear Exchangers,

Movement is the way of the world. Currents, prevailing winds, train tracks, roads, flight routes–these are the things that define our world. When things move around our world, they forever change it. We’ve been reading about how radically the world changed following Columbus’s trip to the New World. Both the New World and the Old World changed in ways that we’re still feeling today. 

The story of humankind is the story of unknown people meeting, trading goods and ideas (sometimes by force), and then adapting their lives to the new world that their encounters created. That was the story Columbus and the Tainos lived, the story Cortes and Montezuma lived, and it’s the story we’re still living today.

Sincerely, 

Mr. Heimbuck