We just celebrated Columbus Day. We live in a world shaped by the voyage of discovery Columbus and so many others made in the last few hundred years. Our ancestors traveled the world, and brought new ideas and ways of living into existence. We traveled beneath the sea after we visited everything we could upon it, and then we went into space and set our feet upon the dust of another world. We live in a better world today than the one Columbus inhabited, filled with more knowledge and ability than any time in recorded history. We have made the world a better place by seeking out other places, peoples, and knowledge. By bringing home the best of them, and by sending forth the best of us, we have made all of us better. We should always seek that.