{"id":1455,"date":"1974-08-30T00:01:15","date_gmt":"1974-08-30T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2022-07-31T17:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T00:51:03","slug":"1974-august-marcys-gratitude-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/08\/30\/1974-august-marcys-gratitude-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"1974, August: Marcy\u2019s gratitude lists"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<style>\r\nul {\r\n  list-style: none;\r\n  padding-left: 1em;\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>Mixed in with the letters were a set of a dozen pieces of paper (most 4&half;\" x 6\", a couple 4&half;\" x 7\"), on each of which Marcy wrote a list of things that she was grateful for on a particular day. (Written in a variety of pen colors and pencils.)<\/p>\r\n<p>It looks like she started out writing a list every day (starting on the 3rd), maybe intending to do one each day for the month of August, but she ended up skipping half the days. (Or else some of the lists have gotten lost.)<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how George and Helen ended up with these lists. But I\u2019m glad that they preserved them with the letters; I like the view into Marcy\u2019s day-to-day life.<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n\r\n<h3>3 August 1974<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>a working irrigation system<\/li>\r\n  <li>chicken coop\u2014help from Danny<\/li>\r\n  <li>future-scary novels <span class=\"jed-note\">I\u2019m not at all sure that that word says \u201cscary,\u201d but that\u2019s my best guess<\/span><\/li>\r\n  <li>puzzles & games<\/li>\r\n  <li>cleaning & being clean; cleaning tools<\/li>\r\n  <li>work<\/li>\r\n  <li>solitude<\/li>\r\n  <li>metanoia<\/li>\r\n  <li>bypassing <strike>x<\/strike> old boyfriends<\/li>\r\n  <li>help with dinner<\/li>\r\n  <li>people with things in common<\/li>\r\n  <li>good water, filtration system<\/li>\r\n  <li>vitamins<\/li>\r\n  <li>sleep<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>4 August 1974<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You For<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>learning about chickens<\/li>\r\n  <li>help from friends<\/li>\r\n  <li>pizza for dinner<\/li>\r\n  <li>Joaquin\u2019s knowing how to take his own nap<\/li>\r\n  <li>George\u2019s chicken capture<\/li>\r\n  <li>Jed\u2019s patience<\/li>\r\n  <li>talking to Carol<\/li>\r\n  <li>Peter\u2019s kitchen blitz<\/li>\r\n  <li>tomorrow<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>5 August (written Aug 6 morning)<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>abundance expressed in shopping<\/li>\r\n  <li>chickens safely found<\/li>\r\n  <li>chicken coop built<\/li>\r\n  <li>help from Peter<\/li>\r\n  <li>a good dinner<\/li>\r\n  <li>kittens<\/li>\r\n  <li>cats<\/li>\r\n  <li>praise<\/li>\r\n  <li>feeling accomplishment<\/li>\r\n  <li>continuing learning Zen Gen Sanji<\/li>\r\n  <li>end of headache<\/li>\r\n  <li>menstruation<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>6 August written Aug 7 morning<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>The chickens laying eggs<\/li>\r\n  <li>Ivan\u2019s party being over<\/li>\r\n  <li>George\u2019s interesting visit to Dr. Gamyler <span class=\"jed-note\">Uncertain of name<\/span><\/li>\r\n  <li>pleasant company & state of mind of late yesterday evening<\/li>\r\n  <li>awarenesses of peoples\u2019 consciousness, however dimly<\/li>\r\n  <li>Peter & me supplementing each other<\/li>\r\n  <li>Ari Pat P.J.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Ivan & George\u2019s waterskiing<\/li>\r\n  <li>Sufi music<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>7 August 1974<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>good people to fix cars<\/li>\r\n  <li>awareness & unity in politics (to whatever extent it may exist)<\/li>\r\n  <li>Pat & Leslie<\/li>\r\n  <li>William Irwin Thompson<\/li>\r\n  <li>P.J. & Shannon & Kristen<\/li>\r\n  <li>music<\/li>\r\n  <li>good music in my head<\/li>\r\n  <li>treading water<\/li>\r\n  <li>Thank You Right Now For Your Love<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>August 10<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>toys & presents<\/li>\r\n  <li>good traveling food<\/li>\r\n  <li>eggs & chickens<\/li>\r\n  <li>Cherry tomatoes\u2014the one I ate & the one the chickens ate<\/li>\r\n  <li>good dinners<\/li>\r\n  <li>writing with Ivan<\/li>\r\n  <li>early sleep<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>August 16, 1974<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>awareness of other peoples\u2019 heads<\/li>\r\n  <li>good times & independent leisure<\/li>\r\n  <li>hard work & learning about bike riding<\/li>\r\n  <li>Elaine Morgan<\/li>\r\n  <li>letter writing<\/li>\r\n  <li>bank accounting<\/li>\r\n  <li>promise of Rooster<\/li>\r\n  <li>friendly chickens<\/li>\r\n  <li>a wonderful family, filled with light<\/li>\r\n  <li>Thank You<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3><span class=\"jed-note\">Note: August 17 was her 31st birthday, but there\u2019s no list for that day.<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>August 18, 1974<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>meeting George\u2019s mother<\/li>\r\n  <li>Al & Sherrie<\/li>\r\n  <li>Carol & a lovely dinner<\/li>\r\n  <li>interesting remembered feelings<\/li>\r\n  <li>Sake<\/li>\r\n  <li>prayer for Brenda<\/li>\r\n  <li>PJ\u2019s work<\/li>\r\n  <li>Papa Rooster<\/li>\r\n  <li>Larry<\/li>\r\n  <li>Ivan\u2019s good trip\u2014as long as it was<\/li>\r\n  <li>Peter & Jed & Joaquin\u2019s continued safety<\/li>\r\n  <li>Peace & space<\/li>\r\n  <li>Peter\u2019s parents call<\/li>\r\n  <li>Thank You Right Now for Your Love!<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>22 August 1974<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Sufi music<\/li>\r\n  <li>clean kitchen<\/li>\r\n  <li>new beach<\/li>\r\n  <li>being\/becoming a sewanin<\/li>\r\n  <li>bale of hay<\/li>\r\n  <li>work being done<\/li>\r\n  <li>Dr Bliss<\/li>\r\n  <li>Nature farming<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>23 August<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>realizings about animus projections<\/li>\r\n  <li>Fairy tales interpretation book<\/li>\r\n  <li>gestalt of realizations\u2014how it all dovetails, by design<\/li>\r\n  <li>tonight in my own bed<\/li>\r\n  <li>lovely lacewing landing on my hand<\/li>\r\n  <li><span class=\"jed-note\">Our dog\u2019s name<\/span>, foster puppy<\/li>\r\n  <li>Zac & Moira coming<\/li>\r\n  <li>Darel\u2019s visit & subsequent realizations about my expectations of perfection<\/li>\r\n  <li>worlds opening up<\/li>\r\n  <li>the head you gave me (= the head I made\/took me)<\/li>\r\n  <li>Danny<\/li>\r\n  <li>Zen & Japanese Culture<\/li>\r\n  <li>a lot to be thankful for in a day that didn\u2019t seem that way<\/li>\r\n  <li>book about mistresses<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>28 August 1974<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Johrei for Jerry<\/li>\r\n  <li>good energy exchange with Jerry<\/li>\r\n  <li>pyramids<\/li>\r\n  <li>good dog books<\/li>\r\n  <li>Zack & Moira<\/li>\r\n  <li><span class=\"jed-note\">Our dog\u2019s name<\/span>!!<\/li>\r\n  <li>Dr Susan Hoffman<\/li>\r\n  <li>Etna & Inu\u2019s graciousness<\/li>\r\n  <li>corn & biscuits<\/li>\r\n  <li>vegies<\/li>\r\n  <li>Richard Kahn<\/li>\r\n  <li>letting loose<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>August 30, 1974<\/h3>\r\n<p>Thank You for<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Darel<\/li>\r\n  <li>Rae getting Johrei<\/li>\r\n  <li>a smooth-running motor (almost)<\/li>\r\n  <li>Carol Lester\u2019s book<\/li>\r\n  <li>Peter\u2019s phone call<\/li>\r\n  <li>Peter & Jed & Joaquin\u2019s continued safety & happiness<\/li>\r\n  <li>abundance<\/li>\r\n  <li>purification<\/li>\r\n  <li>fasting<\/li>\r\n  <li>Reverent Imuta & Shig<\/li>\r\n  <li>Sufi music<\/li>\r\n  <li>the chance to be a Sewanin<\/li>\r\n  <li>Sleep<\/li>\r\n  <li>Thank You right now for Your Love<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt>Named people<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>I don\u2019t know who most of the listed people are. One was probably a particular longtime family friend who we later had a very complicated\/difficult history with, but most of the other names are unknown to me. (Except for the foster kids who she mentions here, of course: George, Ivan, and Larry.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201cbypassing old boyfriends\u201d<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>I feel like there must have been a story behind this phrase, but I don\u2019t know what it was.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201cZen Gen Sanji\u201d<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Zengen Sanji is a prayer from our church, with connections to Shinto and Buddhism. A web search suggests that it\u2019s one of the church\u2019s major prayers, but I don\u2019t remember it at all.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>Sufi music<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Specifically the music of the Sufi Choir, a sort of California-hippie version of Sufi music. We had two of their albums, the <cite>Blue Album<\/cite> and <cite>Cryin\u2019 for Joy<\/cite>. I don\u2019t know much about Marcy\u2019s musical tastes; the only specific music that I know she liked was these albums, various Gilbert & Sullivan shows, and the Clancy Brothers album <cite>The Boys Won\u2019t Leave the Girls Alone<\/cite>. (All of which appealed to me more than Peter\u2019s tastes, which ran mostly to jazz and the Grateful Dead.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>I still have those two Sufi Choir LPs. I took them to college with me, and played bits of them a couple of times for friends; the universal response was \"Wow, that's really 1970s, isn't it?\" But I still love some of the songs.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>At some point, a <cite>Best of the Sufi Choir<\/cite> CD came out. In 2004, it was made available on <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/ca\/album\/the-best-of-the-sufi-choir\/47750584\">Apple\u2019s music store<\/a>, and it still is. (If you\u2019re curious, you can listen to previews of the songs on it.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>But that album doesn\u2019t include all of the music from the two records I have. So I was delighted, while researching for this post, to discover that all <em>six<\/em> of the Sufi Choir albums (including four that I had never heard of until now) are <a href=\"https:\/\/coldmountainmusic.com\/music\/\">available for purchase and download<\/a> from Cold Mountain Music, the original publishers. It turns out that <a href=\"https:\/\/coldmountainmusic.com\/bio\/\">William Allaudin Mathieu<\/a>, the founder of the Sufi Choir and author of most of their songs, is still alive and working in Sebastopol, near where we were living in 1974. I\u2019ve now emailed him to thank him for the music.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>William Irwin Thompson<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>See Wikipedia: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Irwin_Thompson\">William Irwin Thompson<\/a>.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>Elaine Morgan<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>I\u2019m guessing she\u2019s referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elaine_Morgan\">Elaine Morgan<\/a>, whose book <cite>The Descent of Woman<\/cite> had been published a couple years earlier.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201cletter writing\u201d<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>That was the day that she wrote the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1974\/08\/16\/1974-august-16-letters-from-marcy-to-gh\/\">previous letter<\/a>.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201cPeter & Jed & Joaquin\u2019s continued safety\u201d<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>As detailed in previous letter, we were off on a trip to Colorado hot springs.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>sewanin<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Web searches suggest that in the context of our church, the word means something like \u201ccaretaker,\u201d maybe referring to something like people who do outreach to the community and spread the word? I\u2019m not sure.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>Dr. Bliss<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>May have been a chiropractor. (There is a chiropractor of that name who appears to still be practicing in that area, after over 50 years of practice, but I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s the same person.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201cFairy tales interpretation book\u201d<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>I\u2019m speculating that she may have been referring to the 1970 book <cite>The Interpretation of Fairy Tales<\/cite>, by Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz. <\/dd>\r\n  <dt>our dog<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>I didn\u2019t remember that we had our dog back then! I\u2019ve redacted her name, because name-of-pet is sometimes a security question. It kinda sounds like the dog was new to us at this time, but I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any mention of her in the letters.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>Dr. Susan Hoffman<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>A web search led me to someone of that name who\u2019s been practicing in Santa Rosa since 1974. Don\u2019t know whether that\u2019s the same person.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201csmooth-running motor\u201d<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>This is a reference to a Sufi Choir song called \u201cThank You,\u201d which includes the lines \u201cthank you for a smooth-running motor \/ thank you for the smell of oil.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen daily lists of things that Marcy was grateful for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-marcy","category-hearthlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}