Entering 2008 in the Hiawatha Forest brought about this poem.
Mission Statement
I want to validate myself.
I want to invite others to validate themselves.
I want us all to validate one another in return of self-validation.
This is not a race.
It is not a game.
It is living and breathing and being.
It is a war for souls, our own.
It is a war for souls of children to come.
It is a war raged by lies born of liars.
It is a war won with love.
Love dispels deception.
It is not mastery,
nor submission,
nor compromise.
It is confidence,
faith,
endurance,
and resolution.
Post updated: 28 January 2009.
Mission Statement by Melissa Dey Hasbrook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
