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ready to retire. Financially we are better off than ever before and on a sound basis. Our earnings at the moment at least are at or near their peak. There is a lessening of war tension abroad. Spring is about here. Things at the office seem to be straightening themselves out gradually. The new home is going to be better than anything we have lived in. We are beginning to see the foolishness of being discouraged because a first story or a first cartoon fails to be bought by the Satevepost or even Collier's.  We begin to perceive again the old fundamental truths about what is necessary to happiness. We begin to see the idiocy of giving in to defeatism and worry and lack of faith.

So I want to get going again on a full and normal and healthy life in which I give full scope to my talents, not taking my hobbies too seriously so I am overpowered when I don't sell a picture or a story, but do it for the joy of producing something that's all mine. Someday the practice I get in writing and drawing may serve me well. Who knows? I want to give to my job all the ability I have--do it calmly and conscientiously and well. I want to be fair in my dealings with people--give them a break. I want to be keenly interested in life all phases of it, and know I'm living. I want to live so I know my conscience is clear and I'm worthy of my family in every way. This journal

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