Dear Humans,

If you look around my house you’d think it is a museum to my failures. In the garage there’s the circular saw that I used to make one super-rickety box that holds nothing. In the basement is the flat-tired unicycle my dad gave me that I have tried (and failed) to ride exactly one time. There’s the soldering iron that I have used to fix exactly nothing. There are the yo-yos I could never quite get to fall asleep. There are the shelves and shelves of unread books.

And yet I bought a Rubik’s cube yesterday. There’s a very good chance that it ends up in a box somewhere before I ever get even one side all the same color. But I’m going to try.

They say you should learn from your mistakes. But one thing you should never, ever learn from your mistakes is that you should stop making new ones.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck