An old piece from the New York Times called “This Life: The Stories That Bind Us” included a suggestion from a management type that “families create a mission statement similar to the ones companies and other organizations use to identify their core values.”
I shot the piece off to my brothers and sisters.
Sometimes you think “We should have written that down.” Or over time, you unconsciously rewrite it. And anyway, maybe is was inaccurate to begin with.
One brother answered: “We embrace family myth the way we celebrate national myth.”
And I realized that’s not a bad mission statement, though not quite: To Protect and Serve
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