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.

What gives me hope is what is yet to come, what you will experience in your lifetime.

I’m voting with climate change as a top priority. I’ve tried to teach you boys that we need to clean up after ourselves and take care of the earth. I promise to continue doing these actions and more, for your sake.

I hope that you start doing things that will help the world.

I wish you all the best and always make sure that you can be proud of yourself and don’t need status-symbols for feeling nice.

I promise to do my part. I promise to be the change I want to see in the world, and I hope that you, reader, will do the same.

Right now you are only a little over 5 weeks old, but you have truly changed my whole world. Your Mom and I always say that we thought we loved before you were born, but now that you have come into the world and we met you, our ability to love just expanded exponentially.

Each of us only has so much power and the problem is HUGE, but I worked at this every day.

My hopes have always been to live in a brighter and better generation, where women are respected around the world, human rights are respected and last but not least where animals and mother nature is cared for by us individuals.