Archive for From Peter
Peter explains why he doesn’t write often, and talks about my new school, and talks about his plan to set up an altar in our home with which to pay respect to our ancestors. “I hope you will understand that this is done not in the spirit of lighting candles and paying a priest to pray somebody out of purgatory, but rather in the spirit of putting flowers on someone's grave.”
A couple of thank-you notes and general life updates. “Life goes on here in the usual hurry-up-&-wait fashion, lurching from (minor) crisis to (near) catastrophe.”
Peter to George: “I’d very much enjoy listening to a tape of some of your [organ] repertoire; no matter what style you played, to me it would always be ‘pop music.’” …and other assorted notes and thoughts.
In which Peter consults the I Ching about whether Grandpa George should retire or not. Plus a side note from me that says “We'll send you an Easter present even if you don't send us an Easter present, and you can send your Easter present a little later than Easter, if you want to send one.”
Peter makes plans for a visit from George and Helen. “Our delight was boundless when we learned that you could get away for a week to come & visit us.”
A general life update from Peter, plus some poems written by Meishu-sama. “Events proceed here at their usual dizzing pace (that was supposed to be dizzying—anyway, things are whizzing)”
In which two foster kids leave, and we are suddenly in desperate need of money again, so we prepare to move. “We're thinking very seriously about going in with about 8 other people to buy a 100-acre ranch in Mendocino county, we'd get 10 or 12 kids at $800-$1000 per each per month, and set up a survival community, schoolhouse, etc.”
Another thank-you-plus-life-updates letter, in which we’re preparing to sell the house and move on to the next adventure. “We are very sorry to be so unconscionably late in sending our gifts to you—especially since we had finished making them by 12/20 or so, but have been as busy as a gaggle of whirligigs, mostly running around in circles...”
A note from Peter to Jed and Jay, while we were visiting George and Helen. “Marcy & I are doing fine, except we miss you a whole lot... if we get too lonely, maybe Marcy will drive up there & get you...”
A note from Peter to Jed and Jay. “here is four weeks allowance each and a dollar bonus to share”