Dear Humans,

You need a ticket to get into most of the places you’ll visit. Buses, planes, games, museums, the movies. No ticket, no entrance. But here we are, born into this world, wandering around and bumping into things, and all without a ticket. 

But to really belong, to really make the world feel like it’s yours, you do need a ticket. And that ticket is knowledge. Because to really belong to a place, you have to know about it.

That’s how I feel when I look at the climate zone maps we’ve been studying. All these far flung and unique places, and yet we have a system to understand them and make sense of them. And doing that–making sense of this strange and wonderful world we inhabit–is how we punch our ticket for full admission.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt