Dear
Family: I’m so pleased still to be on the list as I think of so many of
you often . . . and would so love to know the others of you better. (I loved those dragon boat pictures -- remember, please,
that Key West is a lovely place to visit, and family has a standing invitation; we now have a cute guest cottage walking distance
to everything in Old Town, including the beach.)
Meanwhile,
my news: son Shadrach (ne Scott) (that’s what comes from letting a kid major in philosophy/religion
at Sarah Lawrence!) married Jessica Gerson-Gerard 7/3/04 in Hackensack, NJ;
she hails from Fair Lawn and is finishing a PhD in linguistics at the U of Arizona. They met at Sarah
Lawrence an eon ago . . . . He’s finishing up at Ohio State
Law School; they plan to stay in Columbus
(Bruce’s influence!).
Son
Devin, a piano pro—playing, restoring, reselling and, for a year, music director for Disney Cruise Line) married
Julie Alonzo of Escondido, CA (where they
still live) in a surprise Jewish wedding in LaJolla last 10/22; her 5th generation Spanish/Mexican-American nominally
Catholic family said it was just the way a wedding should be?!? Hurricane Wilma extended our stay a whole week as we couldn’t
get home . . . . Lost Barry’s computer cave but cottage and house were dry.
Journalism
sticks to me: I’m doing an art column (surprise, Mookie!) -- too many theater critics, unfortunately—and am still
an active volunteer—especially NOW, ACLU, Equality Florida (statewide GLBT civil rights group), Literacy Volunteers
and a chamber music group now 35 years old.
I’m
getting a little old and creaky, but otherwise all is well (Medicare’s nice). (Was in Columbus
in late March for an unveiling -- Millie Schuster, a cousin on the Gilbert side—and it snowed! --still recovering.)
I’ve
become resident educator on all things Jewish (!) for the local UU Fellowship and will lead their (+/-) 6th annual
Seder Thursday. Prepared them with a sermon: “Who Is Slave,Who Free?” (Our local synagogue is really conserva-dox
in ritual although quite tolerant re: equity, social justice, etc. I’m as active as I can be with them, ex: edited their
April bulletin last month, before I left for Ohio, but it hasn’t been
sent out yet—no malice, just disorganization. Pity!)
With
hugs to you all, and best wishes for a wonderful Pesach (and no indigestion)!
Love, Connie Gilbert.
