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Success at doing just that I can not resist the urge to write to you. 
     You see, Mr. Nakashima, I see your live, and work, and way of life at New Hope as an example and as an encouragement that there may be hope of avoiding the kind of despair and cynicism that these times too often inspire. I know it is naive to ask that another person solve the mysteries of my own life. And yet, I read what you have written and I see what you have done and I am perhaps naive enough to believe in it and to feel deeply happy, even relieved to see that at least for some a meaningful and useful life is possible. And I am prepared to take the risks involved in writing perhaps foolishly to you to ask how, Mr. Nakashima, how have you done it? You have been, I believe, truly fortunate perhaps blessed. I know too that you have worked hard - very hard to realize your dream. And yet the very fact that you have achieved or at least come so very close to achieving such a life strongly suggests to me a wisdom that many seek but very few have found. Perhaps I will never achieve that wisdom nor that harmony but, I pray that I will never cease searching for it. 
     If you have any further advice you might care to share with a concerned young man in his search for these things I would be grateful. If not, then I will content myself with what you have already shared in your book and be happy to start from there taking what you have offered and moving hopefully nearer to my own proper place in this life.
     Thank you again for listening to my rather wordy and awkward story. With this letter I send my most sincere wisher for your continued health and happiness. 
Respectfully, 
David Campbell
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Somerville MA
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