We loved hiking, camping, biking, swimming and playing as kids together.

I promise to do everything I can as a daughter to our great Mother Earth to protect her wildlife and trees.

It was 2020, the year I realized that life is fragile—not just mine, but the entire planet—through immense consumption, pollution, greediness, ignorance, false bliss. This wasn’t the way I wanted to live my life, so I promise to actively make the change.

And, if this summer has taught me anything, I am content (because I have to be) living in this limbo, this seemingly endless waiting for the opportunity to change, when really the opportunity exists within our very selves all along.

I hope that the fervor that is building continues to build and spread and that the world has made progress to minimize the effects of our past actions.

I can feel the change happening — many people are working to transform the world.

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