a public declaration of policy and aims; from latin, ‘make public’

• to honour my commitments
• to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable
• to listen intently and openly, with the objective of understanding
• to never look away from the rottenness of the world
• to relentlessly find beauty and purpose in the mundane
• to thine own self, be true
• to embrace conflict as something transformative
• to do everything sincerely and with intent, no half-measures
• to check yourself before you wreck yourself
• to remember that inaction is action, and passivity is the lifeblood of evil
• to allow myself to be humiliated and punished by love
• to hone the art of rhetoric like a weapon, and use it for good
• to make the grey, the contradictions, the ambiguity, home