In order for you two be happy and healthy, we all need to work hard to prevent climate change.

I am writing this message to you guys. When I look outside my window today, I see a beautiful world that others and myself call “home sweet home.” The trees glimmering in warm sunlight, the air stirring a cool breeze, and the water flowing down rivers are parts of our home Mother Earth.

I promise that I will plant more trees in places where there are none.

In writing to you, I realize that I don’t want you to be hard on yourself if you choose to not make this your cause. But it is mine, so I hope that you hold me accountable to some of what I wrote here.

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

To laugh at our efforts as they were on such a small scale, too small some would say to make a difference, and then smile when we think about the number families just like ours that did the same thing.

There are many paths to Truth, but regardless of your faith or ideology, one truth is above all else: Life must continue.

The blue sky will no longer be grey, and the bleak clouds will be vibrant.

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.

You ask insightful questions, and together we learn about the mysterious world we inhabit.