{"id":1864,"date":"1976-02-14T00:01:06","date_gmt":"1976-02-14T08:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2022-09-18T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T17:25:39","slug":"1976-february-14-letter-from-marcy-to-gh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/1976\/02\/14\/1976-february-14-letter-from-marcy-to-gh\/","title":{"rendered":"1976, February 14: Letter from Marcy to G&#038;H"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Three-page handwritten letter on unlined paper, in red ink.<\/p>\r\n<p>Content warning for a bit of self-fat-shaming.<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">14 February<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">Dear Grandfolks<\/p>\r\n<p>Certainly has been a busy Valentines Day, but I\u2019ve been promising to write to you - you\u2019ll have to do with scribbles, as I\u2019m too sleepy to listen to the typewriter. We got a lovely letter from Linda this week - what\u2019s this about Paul\u2019s trip to the local southlands?<\/p>\r\n<p>Hope you are all well. it finally is beginning to rain here, after a long winter\u2019s drought, but I\u2019m annoyed because I was going to go to a party tonight but it was too far over winding roads to drive in a downpour - other than that, we\u2019re fine. Peter is having a hard time getting used to his new schedule, and gets pretty annoyed at me because I\u2019m not sympathetic enough, - he\u2019s worked a few days this week, too, for a friend who\u2019s building a house over in the <strike>xxx<\/strike> wine country. They stopped in to visit an old wine maker our friend knows, who is supposed to be (said to be) the best vintner in Sonoma County. You would have loved it, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\r\n<p><span class=\"jed-note\">Added in pencil by Peter:<\/span> name of JOE HEITZ: \u201cSonoma Vineyards\u201d book said \u201cbest in the world\u201d!<\/p>\r\n<p>Here I sit by the local excuse for a fireplace, a gas heater with a Thermostat. We gather \u2019round it evenings for togetherness.<\/p>\r\n<p>Seems I never did thank you for the Christmas things you sent. I want you to know clothes are always welcome - whatever doesn\u2019t fit finds good homes elsewhere, but when<\/p>\r\n<p><span class=\"jed-note\">Added in margin:<\/span> So here goes: THANK YOU!!!<\/p>\r\n<p><span class=\"jed-note\">Added in margin:<\/span> I especially liked the salmon!<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\">you hit a winner, Grandma, it\u2019s a <u>real<\/u> winner. Ivan just <u>loved<\/u> the long johns, and wears \u2019em a lot. What we need (or want) is:<\/p>\r\n<p><u>Joaquin:<\/u> size 5\u2019s + 6\u2019s pants & shirts<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"indent-double\">partial to costume-y things like that Jr Astronaut jump suit, which he still wears, and <u>green<\/u> things.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"indent-double\">looking for a fancy jacket (sport jacket? <strike>xxx<\/strike> blazer? whatever.)<\/p>\r\n<p><u>Jed<\/u>: size 8 shirts, esp. pullovers<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"indent-double\">likes flannel shirts<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"indent-double\">size 7 pants, I think - particular to wear ones with back pockets, for his wallet, I want you to know, in which he keeps his library card and a silver dollar<\/p>\r\n<p><u>Peter<\/u>; needs sweatshirts or velour shirt-types<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"indent-double\">he\u2019s pretty well stocked on everything else<\/p>\r\n<p><u>Marcy<\/u> always ready for Navy blue & maroon<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"indent-double\">looking for pocketless pants (slender<u>er<\/u>line) w\/ wide legs (bell bottom-ish) and long skirts & dresses.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"indent-double\">also tunic-length shirts for fat days - which are increasing lately, darn it. I guess it means I\u2019m heathy. when I was so tired last summer my figure looked <u>great<\/u>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Ivan, alas, is no longer with us. This has been a traumatic couple of weeks, finally realized it was bad for him to be with us when both of us were working. Kind of foolish to give him up (@$400\/month) instead of my job, which brings in about $240\/month, but my sanity is involved, too, in that if I stay home all day I get totally crazy. Even going to school <strike>xxx<\/strike> isn\u2019t enough. So we all had to admit it was the wrong situation, and after a tearful farewell there was some relief on both sides.<\/p>\r\n<p>Now we have to rent out a room or move - <u>fast<\/u>!<\/p>\r\n<p>Lovely to hear about your beach house & gardening - wish we could see it all. (but I sure am glad not to have to leave Sonoma county.... I really love it here, and hope to stay for a good while, yet.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Do let us know how the movie was - we didn\u2019t get to see it before we sent it to you.<\/p>\r\n<p>Working, I get to listen to the news a lot - sure is scary. I look at the teenagers Ivan knows and am really sad & disgusted with the society that produced them & maintains \u2019em on a diet of TV and violence and drugs and expediency....<\/p>\r\n<p>That\u2019s where I fell asleep in the chair last night - what a note to fall asleep upon!<\/p>\r\n<p>Have to get this place together. Take good c\/o yourselfs -<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"indent-double\">much love<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"text-right\">P&M&J&J&<span class=\"jed-note\">our dog\u2019s name<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Amusing Google Docs OCR errors:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Dear Grandfolks: Der Grundfolkes<\/li>\r\n  <li>downpour: drumpeer<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\r\n<dl>\r\n  <dt>jobs<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Peter and Marcy may both have been working at Merit Book Center at this point? I\u2019m not sure.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>Joe Heitz<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>For more, see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heitz_Wine_Cellars#Joe_Heitz\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201cback pockets, for his wallet\u201d<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>I kept my wallet in my back pocket for years. Sometime in the early 1980s, though, my wallet disappeared from my back pocket while I was at a comic book store; seemed likely that it was stolen, and ever since then I\u2019ve kept my wallet in my front pocket.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>Interesting to see that I kept a silver dollar in my wallet at this point. (I was about to turn eight.) For decades, I kept a heavy coin there (though the type of coin varied), partly because I liked the idea of having a coin at hand that would be good for flipping. (Even though I rarely flipped a coin.) But I hadn\u2019t remembered that that habit started this early.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>Ivan<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>And thus ends the foster home. It lasted only about a year and a half, and went through a lot of ups and downs during that time. But I think it was nonetheless the longest sustained project that Peter and Marcy did, out of all the various jobs and plans that they had up to that point. (Well, I suppose Peter\u2019s time at UC Berkeley was also about a year and a half.)<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>\u201crent out a room\u201d<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>I don\u2019t recall our having a sublettor in the Cotati house. I wonder whether that happened.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>movie<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Not sure what this is referring to. I know that various relatives at various times made home movies, probably with something like a Super 8 camera, but I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s something that Peter and Marcy ever did.<\/dd>\r\n  <dt>teenagers<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>It\u2019s disconcerting to me to see Marcy talking dismissively about teenagers. She was 32 years old, and had been heavily involved in counterculture for much of the previous ten years; I find it even more offputting to see her doing the kids-these-days thing here than to see people my age saying stuff like that now. I\u2019m glad that she blames society rather than the kids themselves; but even so, it bugs me.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General updates from Marcy. \u201cHere I sit by the local excuse for a fireplace, a gas heater with a Thermostat. 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