jazzforthecaptain:

To my younger followers: I believe in you so much I can’t put it in words. You’re growing up in a world where it’s harder and harder to have hope and feel capable of changing your own life, let alone the culture or the community around you. Yet you do. You organize, you facilitate, you volunteer, you care about each other and you have compassion for strangers and you TRY. I see you all doing so much good, innovating new ideas, asking new questions, finding new answers to old ones.

Keep writing, keep asking, keep imagining, keep finding answers and please be kind to each other because you will change this world and make it better. I am so sorry that you had to grow up under the shadow of so much fear and despair. But you’re thriving in spite of it and I see it every day in every one of you.