of Western Massachusetts. As Missioner for Creation Care (a new position that I proposed to the bishop and that I will be inventing as I go along), I plan to focus my energy on building the religious environmental movement, with a focus on addressing climate change. I relish combining spirituality and activism: I lead retreats, and recently joined the Working Board of Better Future Project, a Massachusetts-based non-profit that oversees 350MA.org and is organizing the local grassroots struggle to move beyond fossil fuels. My book of Advent/Christmas meditations, Joy of Heaven, to Earth Come Down, is now expanded and in its second printing, and I contributed 15 short pieces to a new book of 365 daily meditations for 2014, Seeking God, Day by Day. “When the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art selected works by my brother John Bullitt ’71, to show at its biennial exhibit, our family had a rare reunion that included our mother and sisters Elizabeth Bullitt ’64, Sarah Bullitt ’68, and me. My Website is holyhunger. org. Son Sam Jonas ’04 is in Thailand for five months, teaching English as a Second Language. My husband Robert Jonas, my partner for the past 30+ years, has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer, so we are embarking on a quest for healing.”
Elizabeth Bullitt ’64, Margaret Bullitt-Jonas ’66, and Sarah Bullitt ’68.
Mary-Ellen (Mellen) Candage announces exciting news: “I got married on October 6 to the man I’d been infatuated with since high school at Sidwell Friends as a junior many years ago, and it was a street wedding to celebrate the fact that we sit outside our Dupont Circle, DC apartment every night, entertaining the
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world and holding court in our ‘salon.’ Most of the guests were ‘salon’ visitors we met right here on the street, and we had a ball and it was wonderful and we are the happiest people alive right now. Other than that, we are planning to move to my house in St-Cirq in the Dordogne, France, in the next year or so, and peacefully co-exist with the remnants of Magdelenian Man and our very few neighbors in our tiny commune of 112 residents. We’ll live on foie gras and confit and drink Bergerac du Châteux Mazibert and just be the bestest, most content old couple imaginable. We’ll keep doing our life’s work as writers and editors but with a view of the Vézère Valley that is incomparable and oh so sweet. And oh, the house will be rentable (not quite yet, but after we do repairs and updates in spring of 2014 — the view from the bedrooms is glorious beyond belief ). BTW, my husband’s book, Boomer Down, is available on http://www.smashwords.com/books/ search?query=boomer+down. I wish I had a book, too, but despite years of chronicling my adventures in France, I haven’t yet put it all together, though I have thousands of pages of journals.” Michael Feldberg observes, “The elemental things are the most important. Ruth Lazarus and I have been married for 35 years (how did that happen?). Our daughter Rachel, 30, a New York City public school teacher, is married to a man she met in college. They have two daughters, two and one-half and 10 months. Our daughter Jesse, 27, a pre-school teacher, is married to a man she met on a college semester in New Zealand. Uniquely among our children Jesse hated everything about sports her whole life, so of course she met and ultimately married a kiwi professional cricket player. Go figure. Our son Ben, 24, who throughout childhood fought constantly with his next oldest sister because all he did, through college, was play sports, works for a digital sports advertising company. “We live in New York City. I have no idea how that happened. When we were kids we hated New Yorkers — they were smug and arrogant and thought they knew everything. Now I tell people I’m in the 36th year of a temporary one-year stay here to see what it’s like. The joke, if you can call it that, is getting a tad old. We are very lucky. Our kids live here, work here and amazingly enough, appear to be responsible adults, at least most