Dear Humans,

In first grade, my grandparents gave me a digital watch that could tell the time in any time zone in the world. If you hit a button, a little line moved across a map of the world and showed the time in whatever time zone it crossed.

It was super cool. And it taught me a lot more than just about time zones.

Tools can help us imagine worlds that we can’t currently see. Though I’d only been in two or three time zones when I was a first grader, that watch allowed me to imagine what life was like in every other one.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck