Dear Carriers of Culture,

My hope for you is that at some point in your life you find the perfect opportunity to recite a few lines of Frost or Yeats or Dickinson to and amaze people with your insight.

Or that a story you read in fourth grade helps you make sense of a problem you face in your adult life. Or that a painting you saw in school keeps you up at night thinking about the differences between art and nature.

These things–poems, songs, stories, artworks–are things worth knowing. When you experience them, you put a copy inside yourself and carry it around for the rest of your life. And it makes your life better and your better life makes the world better.

So find a place to keep the art that we experience in class. The future wellbeing of humanity depends on it.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck