11/14/2023 0 Comments Oneida dis word search no. 145![]() You wonder how “they” can expect you to make a satisfactory readjustment into civilian life. They have been looking for someone desperately, and were alarmingly enthusiastic about my possibilities. It all happened quite accidentally, when I took the kids to see an exhibit of marionettes last week, and the secretary found out that I had made them. I’ve been told that I will be offered a job, teaching part-time at the Art Institute here. Don’t interpret this as meaning that I’m in need, tho. The wedding month was an expensive one, and I hoped for a respite after that, but $41 to the doctor, car insurance, and car repair, Pen’s tuition, and such haven’t changed the situation much. She feels that you have shown very little interest in her as an individual for some time, I know, and if you stop to think of her as an individual, you will remember that she is an exceptionally pleasant one to have for a Mother. The date reminds me to remind you that Mother’s Day and your Mother’s birthday will be approaching as you receive this, and I hope you will make a special effort to let Margie know that you remember her both times. So bear with me and everything will be okay in a while. I don’t like to sit down and put my troubles on paper – I don’t want to bother you with them, and I don’t want to think about them. I just regret that I can’t sleep a bigger percentage of the day than I do. It is possibly an unfortunate frame of mind – but I can’t locate the cause and thus can’t do anything about it. You see, at the present time I can’t seem to generate the least atom of interest, energy, enthusiasm or ambition about this assignment, the war, my postwar occupation, my pay, my appearance, my friends, Hindustani, books, chess, the weather or anything else. We are too far apart to carry on any heated discussion about it, so please let’s let it drop, with you confident that you will get them as I can write them and don’t accuse me again of deliberate negligence – it hurts. All I can do is to write something often enough so you will know I am okay, and write letters when I can. I don’t feel guilty to the extent that I will make any promises about the quantity or quality of my letters. I felt guilty enough to suggest to you that you cut the volume of your mail. I am in no position to successfully or safely absorb a Tirade which affects my security in your understanding, one of the few factors left about which you can use the word security. I don’t want to be dull, but I want at least credit for being able to imagine how my lack of writing would affect you if you were to misunderstand me. ![]() I have thrown away some letters to you in the last month that really got as far as your name before the well ran dry. ![]() You can also understand my periodic inability to write a line. I can’t understand you’re not getting any for a week.
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