9/22/44
Dear folkes,
I
guess youn’s are getting even with me for not writing to you.
You may be too busy too. Well Anyway I’ll beat out a few
lines. I’ll quit the double spacing. I had it shifted and forgot to change it.
I’m
pretty well back to normal after the firefighting and cold and I had after
getting back. We havn’t had any real fires since. We had a thunderstorm
yesterday and there was an old snag struck with lightening over on the other
side of town a couple of miles. Maybe it wasn’t more than a mile. Well some of
the boys saw it burning and we were sort of keeping our eyes on it but it
seemed to be plenty damp so nothing was done about it till afternoon when the
guy that owned the land called up and wanted three of us to come up and help
him cut the snag down as the grass was drying off so that it would burn. So a
couple of the fellows and I went over. We had a nice little afternoons
diversion.
There
are six or eight of trying a new kind of meeting. We are going to meet 4
mornings a week for an hour before breakfast and talk over problems and things
that are of interest to all of us. We feel a need to know each other better and
also see the value of discussing things to clearify them. The first thing we
are going to work on is how we use our time. I have done a little thinking on
it this summer and thought I had an idea that helped me get more out of life. I
took a survey of what I was doing with my 24 hours of day. It was quite
interesting. I didn’t change my schedule much tho as a result. I don’t like to
have a schedule to follow it seems too stiff and formal. I like to do things
when I’m in the mood to. There are some things that I find it good to set aside
time to do them regularly like reading and writing letters. I have been keeping
up with my letters better this summer than I ever did before and I have been
doing it by getting up before breakfast and writing one every day if I had one
to answer.
You
got quite a bit of what I have been thinking about in Evelyn’s letter. I
suppose you read it. Did you look at the pictures in it? I think I mentioned
one time that the Classmate was going to give us some pictures some time. Well
they finally came out and they sent for a lot of coppies which sold for 2 cents
a copy. I got several thinking that it was a good cheep way of sending my
friends camp pictures. They were taken a little over a year ago while I was out
surveying or I might have managed to get me nose in one of them. I have some
pictures here that I think I shall send to you if you will send them back as I
only have on print of each.
Yours
with love and stuff
Bernard
Attached: Insert from
Classmate, August 13, 1944 entitled
“Conscientious Objectors”
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