From: John Kitzhaber

Sent: Mon Feb 21 19:09:21 2011

To: 'Cylvia Hayes'

Subject: FW: A few words from your mate

Importance: Normal

Attachments: Early Childhood Transition Report FINAL.docx;

Opps. Here is the attachment. JK

From: John Kitzhaber [mailto:hundredthmeridian@att.net]

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:06 PM

To: 'Cylvia Hayes'

Subject: A few words from your mate

Dear Cylvia,

I am so concerned about you and also feel so responsible. I doubt if I would have run again if I knew you would be going through this. I know that I cannot comfort you (although I have tried and will continue to do so) but I would like to offer some perspective.

Let me start by saying that I appreciate that everything you are feeling right now is legitimate: the concern about where the early funding is going to come from; the distaste to be fundraising again for your job; the sense of isolation; the feeling that you and I are not saving the world together. So let me just share a few thoughts.

First, I will continue to do everything I can to make sure that the bridge funding comes through and will use my own resources if necessary. I am getting an update this Friday which will hopefully offer some encouragement. And as I said to you a few days ago, I think you need to lean into the WORK over this next month and concentrate on the foundation front (I believe that I can send support letters to foundations) for the longer term funding of what is a very exciting program.

I also think this will come together with “my” work to become our work. I don’t want to give you any more to do but I have attached the Transition Team Report on Early Childhood which speaks to exactly the kind of system thinking and system integration we need to do in the clean-economy/environment-climate change work (see recommendation 5 on page 16). It offers a good template and can offer a roadmap for the work (our work) we can pick up once I get the budget balanced.

It seems to me that we can begin to discuss how we want that integration to happen here in Oregon and what steps we can begin to put in place even now while the focus is on the budget and Education/Healthcare transformation. I see the work you are getting set up with the WCCEC as converging with the education/social service transformation I am counting on to make the budget work. I see us doing this together and realizing our dream of saving our planet as a team. That is going to happen.

I also think that getting you set up in the office will be an important step to get you out of that big house and around your loving peeps (especially this peep) during the work day. I will get on that as soon as I get back and we will have the Green-Goddess/Earth Star/FL space organized.

You are so important to me and who you are and what you are trying to do is equally important. I want you to succeed not just because I love you so much, but because of the huge contribution you have made and will continue to make to our world.

More later …

Loving you and thinking of you every minute.

Faithfully,

JK