No matter what you are doing with your future, make sure you remember where you come from. Remember your past and how it made you who you are today. Even if you didn’t make a career in music, I hope you’re still keeping up with it. Keep writing music, even if you don’t end up producing it.
Rachel and Noelle,
I hope in a small way this helps your world.
Dear Tomorrow,
I promise to go to the farmer’s market more
Dear Daughter,
Even when contemplating huge global-historical issues — especially then — it’s important to stay grounded in the present time and place, the specific here and now, and the minute affairs of everyday interpersonal relations.
To my great-great grandchildren,
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.
Dear Tara,
Each of us only has so much power and the problem is HUGE, but I worked at this every day.
Dear Madeleine,
First of all I hope we succeeded in our dream that yours is a better world than the world of 2021. Today, the forests are burning, the sea levels are rising and wild weather is everywhere. But we are working hard and I’m confident we will succeed.
Dear Tara,
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.
To the generation after mine,
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.
Hi buddy,
I can now see that the solutions are there, that a transition of the magnitude that is needed, is possible.
Dear Ari and Levi,
Luckily, we have figured out ways to build things without making the air dirty, and we are trying very hard to get more people to switch over to this new way as fast as we can.
Dear Tomorrow,
I’ll buy only food that I plan to eat before it spoils.
To My Future Children,
Most importantly, I hope you live in a world where science is taken seriously and fact is clearly distinguished from fiction.
