How can I look at your bright eyes and light dance and tell you we are facing a war?

I pray that you are having a happy life and that you have contributed each year of your life into helping to make our planet healthy, cleaner, thriving and greener- a better place for all people and animals to live.

I can now see that the solutions are there, that a transition of the magnitude that is needed, is possible.

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.

Please don’t wait to see the adverse effects instead adopt that river, stream, lake or ocean to make the world a better place.

We ran through the woods laughing, crying, and living.

Your path will only be as clear tomorrow as we have made it for you today.

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.

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

I hope that things have cooled down. I hope that people and governments have come together to save our earth. I hope that everyone is able to breath clean air, drink clean water and see the beauty in nature that I do. I promise to do my best to take part in repairing the damage we’ve done so that my hopes may come true.

Last week I took you to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.