If we truly live our present moment, maybe you’ll have a future.

I hope you got your dream job of using your business degree to reduce co2 emissions and promote sustainable energy.

But when you encounter that resistance–and you will, regularly–know that you must respond just how we have had to these past 50 years. With love, and sternness, and most of all, courage. Because that is what the resistance fears the most. We who came before you promise that we will do the same while we wait for you. Know that you will never be alone.

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.

This is just the beginning. It’s the accrual of little seeds of change that will lead to the tree of revolution.

I want you to hear the whispers of the seasons changing. The rustling of leaves as they gracefully cascade down from their limbs in the fall, birds singing in spring, and frogs that serenade the summer night.

If there is any advice I could give you, it is to believe that although you are one single person in this world, you still have the ability to make a difference in this world.

We want a safe and beautiful world for you, little Caleb, and for your children and grandchildren. We promise to do our part.

People are an amazing race and, if we have the will, I believe we have the ingenuity and resources to fix the harm we’ve done.