July 17,1980 Dearest Wee Just received some mail; yours of June 11; Duncan's + June 12; Pop's of June 7 containing pictures of Somes Sound, and another of Phil's postcards, this one of Holland but mailed in France on June 23, All most appreciated. Our boys have proven To be most engaging correspondents. In this batch, Phil's "Social notes from all over," including his mingling with the fast English horrey set, cheered me up enormously. Duncan's spelling is very much his own, but he makes whatever he writes interesting, and that's the key. I has very proud to read that he is a rep. to his class. Keep writing, all. Duncan writes that people stop you on the street, in recognition. Not only am I proud for your sake, but relieved that so much interest continues to be shown. All this media work must be great fun. Hopefully, you'll be able to keep it up, after the immediate cause has been done away with, In a decisive way. Never have I felt so bellicose Otherwise, my health is good. In recent weeks, I have been playing a lot of bridge, 3-4 [[?]] per day. They gave us a Monopoly set, but unfortunately without dice or money. Books abound, including a lot it self-improvement pocketbooks.. One of them , "Stop Running Scared," tells one how to overcome phobias - Agoraphobia (crouch), spiders, elevators, flying, sex etc - all by a, complicated serries of detailed personal notebooks, induced fantasies etc. Then, without apparently seeing the irony in the situation, the authors tell the story of a group of former inmates (and phobiacs) [sic] of the Theresienstadt Concentration and extermination camp who were interviewed after the war. Without exception, they had lost their phobias in a hurry. All it had taken was a glimpse of the the tall chimney. We all got laugh an of that one. The one great blessing of this a situation is that it puts everything in perspective. We are now in Ramadhan, the lunar month of total fasting from sunup to sunset. As a result, we have two main meals a day, the first at about 4:30 in the morning, and the other often about 9:00 in the evening. Snacks and tea are available (to us) in the course of the day. Because of the trials that fasting imposes, and particularly when Ramadhan occurs in the summer months, the meals are especially good, and this is no exception. July is passing rapidly. Did you get out to the Farm over the 4th ? How much that place has meant to so many people! I love you very much. M