Tonight at bedtime, you asked, seemingly out of nowhere, “why are the glaciers disappearing?”

You are growing up in a time of immense change. In the last two years alone, we’ve learned so much about big and important issues including climate change and the systemic racism that runs through our institutions.

I am sitting in a classroom thinking about you. Which is rare for me. I hope that our family has taken some initiative to do something about changing society instead of building robots and large houses.

Maybe you heard about bats? Bats, the carriers of this disease that spread among us like wild fire. I love bats. When I was your age today, sitting in the evening on the back terrace of your grandparent’s home in Ibiza, hundreds of bats would play, dance and sing among the trees.

Our future is being made now, and I promise to do everything in my power to make yours safe.

But when you are reading this years from now, by the light of a solar powered lamp, know that your dad, mom and millions of others who burned brightly with love for our kids did what we could, when we knew the stakes.

To save the big world, perhaps, we should change the mind from myself to my small family to my community.

Love, help and build a future in unison that benefits and protects the whole world.

I vow that I will try to make a difference every day, so that you may enjoy the world as I have.

Make the most of every day because remember yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift.