Dearest Cousin,
I am terribly sorry I could not make it to your graduation ceremony this past weekend. As you know, Father has me working the fields. Despite the drought, he still has hope for this year's beet crop. I am out there day and night with nothing more than a watering can and the sweltering heat pounding on my back.
From your notice, I saw that your school's mascot was that of a miner. Do you plan to seek employment in the mines once you cross that stage with your newly acquired diploma? Yes, it will be long hours in darkness and surely a life of confined poverty in the eyes of almost anyone, but I think you would bring a sense of pride to our family. Our nation needs its fossil fuels and with growing anti-immigration issues in the southwest, America still needs to fill those worker shoes, preferably with its own laboring class.
Along with your mascot, I noticed your class quote by a one Mr. Bruce Lee. I feel this is an important quote to remember if you choose to pursue the mines. One must pursue one's path in life dutifully and mercifully and with the strongest of convictions. There is no shame in a laborer's job; in fact, one might say that it is the mightiest of jobs for one in that position turns the the cogs of the wheel, and without those turning cogs the wheel can not turn and is, therefore, not a wheel.
I wish you all the best of luck in these trying times. A university education is balked with debting student loans, and a laborer's life is met with poverty. But, where there is suffering there is always hope, like the slave songs of our nation's past. I expect you will choose wisely.
Yours in Christ,
Codie M. Leiker
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