Family letters: early 1971
Letters from both of my parents, from late 1970 and early 1971, about what the family had been up to, and about Christmas and materialism and such.
- November and December, 1970
- In which Marcy writes about the war in Vietnam, the materialism of Christmas, and the importance of staying connected with family.
- Also includes unusually direct criticism of Helen about the way she had been behaving toward Dobe.
- “our major investments should be in how we feel towards each other.”
- Mid-February, 1971
- In which Peter writes about what he’s been up to—school, Shaklee, etc.
- “[I] dropped […] the functions of a complex variable course because of not having quite enough prerequisites (I could follow the proofs but not make them up myself… yet)”
- April 17, 1971
- In which Marcy lists assorted things that we’d been up to, including our first Easter egg hunt, and making and eating vichysoisse, and dealing with pet illness.
- “Joaquin ‘found’ one [Easter egg], nice bright delightful colors, very disappointing to find icky ol’ hardboiled egg inside. Jed got two, one of which he’d hid himself…”