We gathered by the river, the Spokane Falls, sacred water of Spokane tribes, where salmon leaped into baskets for the hard winters and easy summers of community sharing. Now we have no salmon, but the water is our life blood: a symbol of hope for a community on the edge of too much growth, too much consumption, too much alteration in the form of global warming. So, we made a commitment to come together to let our collective will leap through the mist that rose from the surge of water drifting from afar -- from the deep banks of snow, the overlayed aquifer, the verdant forests far away. We know our lawmakers know we care about global warming, the river, the future of hope for generations ready to face off the new shifts in our planetary systems.