Funny little take on the year 1492. But since this is today's blog post number I can't seem to shake the thought out of my head. What did it take to get Columbus to sail the ocean blue? He sat at the dock and watched the sails of the shipping vessels drop down below the horizon so he interpreted that as the world not being flat but instead that the world was round. That was a curious form of scientific logic. He went against the convention of the time, that if you sailed to the end of the flat Earth you would simply fall off, and decided that the world could be circumnavigated. That had to display courage on his part to boldly investigate his curiosity. That courage he used to motivate his actions is what is the best of what we humans can do. It is the basis of our wisdom when we can take a thought that has sense to it and prove it in the face of all those who would argue against it. Columbus did more than discover the West Indies and through that America, he also showed us how to chase our dreams when our dreams make sense. Courage and logic go hand in hand. We are not just another species of the animal kingdom, we are the current caretakers of the animal kingdom. What we do and who we are is the cutting edge of what an animal is! I take this very seriously since we have a duty to all of existence to not only be the best of who we are but to build upon that even more. There is no going back on our destiny. We have been given a charge to lead the beings we yet know with the fidelity toward all life that we demand for ourselves. As well we are expected to display the kind of intelligence necessary to burgeon new horizons of our own through the continuation of logical conclusions.
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