Today is the 43rd anniversary of my mother\u2019s death.<\/p>\r\n
And today would\u2019ve been my father\u2019s 84th birthday. (It\u2019s been nearly 19 years since he was killed.)<\/p>\r\n
I\u2019m musing about what they might be like if they were still alive. It\u2019s not so<\/em> hard for me to imagine Peter at 84; I\u2019m sure he would\u2019ve continued to be pretty much who he always was. That means a bunch of different things, but the aspect of his personality that I\u2019m remembering most today was his enthusiasm and excitement when he encountered some neat new-to-him thing\u2014a sense of wonder about the world, about math, about books he read, about ideas (some of which weren\u2019t true, but never mind that). And his desire to share that enthusiasm.<\/p>\r\n It\u2019s harder for me to imagine Marcy at 80. She was only 37 when she died; I imagine that she too would\u2019ve largely continued to be who she was, but that\u2019s still a lot of time in which someone could grow and change. And I don\u2019t have as clear a sense of who she was as I do of Peter, though reading so many letters of hers helps with that. Would she have continued with anthropology? Would she have done more teaching? Gotten more involved in our church? Done something entirely different? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\r\n Anyway. This is often a rough time of year for me (because of those anniversaries), but this year I seem to be doing okay.<\/p>\r\n Love and hugs to family and others who are remembering Peter and\/or Marcy today.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-parents-children"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20887,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions\/20887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}