Family letters: mid-1973
This week in my family history project:
- Peter is unhappy about his work situation.
- Notes about what Jay and I want to be when we grow up and how Marcy’s garden is going.
- We suddenly shift course and start a foster home.
- April 16, 1973
- In which Peter is unhappy about his work situation. “even though on the surface, mine seems like a very beautiful job (and is in some ways), yet there are many other hidden factors which are leading me to seek another position.”
- May 10, 1973
- Assorted updates: What Jay and I want to be when we grow up; a visit from Uncle Paul; Peter helps a suicidal man change his life; how Marcy’s garden is going; Peter plans to get a graduate degree in Psych.
- “Joaquin will be in the orchestra too, after he’s finished being a refrigerator truck.”
- Mid- to late 1973
- Meta writeup from me: Not a letter, but a description of what was going on in the six-month gap between the previous letter and the next substantive dated one (which I’ll post in a couple weeks).
- The biggest thing that happened during that gap is that Peter and Marcy started “Hearthlight,” a foster home for (as they phrased it at the time) “mentally and emotionally disturbed teenagers.”