If we could all slow down, look around and connect: with each other, the Earth, the sky, the plants and rocks and animals, then maybe we can all remember to treat everyone and everything with respect and live in love.

I want us to read this in future time and remember all the senses and views we witnessed.

I think a lot about where the right place to live is.

The most important thing in my life is you, which means that as your mom – I am doing my very best to make sure that when you read this letter, Earth is a cleaner and safer place for you and your children.

Be assured that in the upcoming election, I will cast my vote for your future – for elected officials that recognize climate risks and are willing to promote and vote for legislation that will stop environmental damage and begin to heal our planet.

I am smelling burning plastic!

I love you my son. You are waking up now. Hopefully tomorrow, more of us will, too.

I don’t regret my past ventures, nor do I believe I will regret my future ventures, but I’ve learned that I’ve needed to manifest these experiences into actions of sustainable development and conservation and protection of our environment.

I hope that the state of the environment becomes a part of everyday discourse.

What I wish most for you girls is that the care you have shown each other would extend to the big wide world around you.