Dear Learners,

This weekend I was reading Michael Jackson’s Wikipedia page for some reason and that led me to the page for the Jackson 5 and that led me to the beginnings of Rhythm and Blues music and that led me all the way back to the beginning of recorded music. And I realized how all of it is connected. And that if you look closely enough at Michael Jackson’s dance moves, you see the beginnings of popular music more than one hundred years before.

If you take any one thing, no matter how small, and look at it closely enough, it will take you all the way back to the beginning of time. Everything in the universe is connected by a story. Your job as learners, historians, and humans is to learn as many of those stories as you can.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck