Two-page handwritten letter from Marcy, with a brief addendum from Peter.<\/p>\r\n
The date that I put on this entry is the postmark date of an envelope that I think<\/em> goes with this letter, but I\u2019m not certain. Some aspects of the letter fit very well with that timing, others not so much.<\/p>\r\n Hi.<\/p>\r\n As you may have guessed, the trip-to-Portland deal fell through, and we are, as always, running around in circles - having a lot of work to keep my act together and get the house even a little bit clean - now we have a Japanese exchange student coming for 3 weeks, age 13, arriving tomorrow. I think the tour group will find another place for him pronto when they hear we are moving. Just as well; it\u2019s pretty hard to get us together - how to add trips & excursions and entertainment and such? But sorry to lose the opportunity.<\/p>\r\n Packing weighs heavily on my mind - wish there were a friendly local grandparents\u2019 society - but the boys are able to help much this time & I expect it\u2019ll all all get done more easily than before. \u2019Quin is constantly after me to go get some boxes, and we still don\u2019t know what sort of house we\u2019re packing for. Yeek.<\/p>\r\n Hope to be in higher spirits next letter.<\/p>\r\n much love<\/p>\r\n Marcy<\/p>\r\n Please save the Creative Writing folder (sent separately)\u2014We can\u2019t find Jed\u2019s but we\u2019ll send it when we do.<\/p>\r\n Did we tell you (I guess not) that Jed won the American Legion Award (a medal & certificate) for an Philadelphia, by the way, was a disaster - but my mother is free of cancer & of that particular terror. Just back to unhappy again. I guess she\u2019s realizing she makes herself that way.<\/p>\r\n Take care, much love, Marcy<\/p>\r\n Final page added by Peter, on the same kind of paper:<\/span><\/p>\r\n A famous old saying (that I made up at work today):<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n IF YOU GRANDADD,<\/p>\r\n YOU\u2019LL GET<\/p>\r\n A GRANDSUM<\/p>\r\n OR<\/p>\r\n A GRANDTAUGHTEL<\/p>\r\n . . . . .<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Marcy added:<\/span><\/p>\r\n Isn\u2019t that grand? I\u2019ll call it atrocious but I can\u2019t spel it ....<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n Marcy talks about packing to move, and various other news. \u201cJed won the American Legion Award (a medal & certificate) for an essay on Americanism [\u2026] How\u2019s that for naches<\/u>?\u201d<\/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":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-marcy","category-cotati"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","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=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n
\r\nx<\/strike> essay on Americanism, for the 4th, 5th & 6th grades in Cotati & Rohnert Park. His essay was submitted to a county contest but no results yet. Further, the 2nd & 3rd prizes were also won by kids in his room. What a flash! How\u2019s that for naches<\/u>? (naches<\/u> is a Yiddish word for how you feel<\/strike> what you \u201chave\u201d when your grandson xxx<\/strike> is valedictorian and wins a scholarship and<\/u> is so handsome the girls call him all the time and<\/u> he respects his grandparents. Actually it\u2019s a xxx<\/strike> noun, corresponds to \u201ca feather in your cap\u201d only with the pride-of-family angle accentuated.)<\/p>\r\n
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