Archive for From Peter
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”
A postcard from Peter, wishing George and Helen a happy anniversary.
Peter explains more or less what he meant when he referred to himself as a “Scuffler” in a previous note. “my connotations include images of scruffiness (scuffedness), of being somewhat worn around the edges; tattered or shabby; but yet still vigorous and resolute.”
Peter tells Dobe about trying to give up alcohol, Marcy leaving her bookstore job and switching to eating only raw foods, a $4 million idea for putting sleeping cots in cars, going to Disneyland for the first time, other stuff we’d all been up to, and lots of books that Peter had been reading.
Notes from Peter and Marcy in anticipation of George and Helen coming to visit. And possibly the first recorded indication of Marcy’s illness, though I’m not sure of that.
Marcy and Peter send thank-yous and life updates—thoughts about a local cat lady, a raw-food diet, jobs, and more. “In preparation [for a job search], I trimmed the beard last night—the scissors slipped, it’s one-thousandth of an inch long now.”
Peter is excited about a couple of job-like prospects. “I don't think you heard about Mr. Duran, a millionaire in Los Angeles that Marcy & I talked with about a job—and HE’S GETTING ME ONE! (Really!)”
Peter has a new job; Marcy sends a life update. “Travel is very close to my heart, but I’ve never been able to do so in style & comfort, like a turtle.”