To my niece, Kathryn
I hope you will read this letter 30 years from now, maybe with your own children around you. It’s fun to imagine you not as a wriggling, dancing 6 year-old, but as grown-up and living as the capable and thoughtful citizen that your parents are now nurturing. I wonder what your world will look like; what is wonderful and what is terrible, what inspires you and what furrows your brow…My greatest hopes are that we here now will participate in a global movement that demands and builds a new way of living that can persist on a small planet.
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My Darling Girls
“(It) is so evident that through our greed and unawareness that your future, the future of the children everywhere, as well as the natural world is in peril…It is a deep heartbreak – so deep and dark that is aches through my limbs.
“And yet I know that letting myself feel into this heartbreak is an important step. It is from this further opening, this letting myself break open that I can find my clarity, my efficacy, my way into what little me can do in this most important time. I can be brave enough to wake up.”
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