I will do my part to help ensure that there is an Earth left when we are done borrowing it.

I don’t know your name
or even if you’re alive,
but I’m doing all I can
to make sure you survive.

I’m your great- great grandmother
who lived a century ago
in a world far different
from the one you must know.

I will work everyday to combat climate change for your today, for your tomorrow!

More than getting through a global pandemic that has already taken hundreds of thousands of lives around the world, our true feat is even larger: to secure our long-term health and the health of the ecosystems upon which we depend for life. To do that, we have to cut our emissions in half in the next ten years, and continue to reduce it beyond that. And to succeed in that, we need to fundamentally shift the way we do EVERYTHING.

We need to work to save our beautiful home.

As I write this, I consider giving up as it sometimes seems that all is lost. But then I think of you.

I want you to be prepared for the world that the generations before you are creating for you. I love you Lucienne, and I will not give up. I will push you and teach you not to give up, either, even if others around you do.

In writing this letter to you, I am searching for ways to make my connection and commitment to you more present in my current experience

If there is one thing that I taught you it is to be honest in your decisions as they pertain to yourselves and the earth in which you live.

While there is still breath in this body I will give of my soul and my time and energy to making the world a better place, for you, and all the beautiful living beings of this world.