The image strikes me as a group that might have been composed by a Leonardo or a Raphael. Clearly the focus is on Mrs Bush in the center, the elderly doyenne. She is laughing gleefully, though she did not laugh this way during the trial, and I strongly suspect the laugh is forced, the effort of an octogenarian alpha girl to put the bravest face she can on events. She is facing another elderly lady who wasn't identified to me, who is raptly engaged with her.
Mrs Bush is looking away from two other figures at the table, neither of whom appears diverted by whatever pleasantries Mrs Bush shares in the other direction. The priest is Fr Ian Emile Dunn, who is curate at St Peter's Anglican, Auburn, CA, one of the few remaining parishes in the diocese. His bio says he is an alumnus of Hillsdale College, an institution for which I have a great deal of respect, and frankly, I'm sorry Hillsdale wasn't Hillsdale when I was of college age. Apparently this is not an unusual reaction from people who take its excellent online courses.
As a result, I've got to think Fr Dunn is several cuts above people like Strawn, Marsh, Vaughan, "Brother Christian" Tutor, and the rest, and I'm wondering about his posture and facial aspect in the photo. With Mrs Bush facing the other way, he seems either to be praying or reflecting seriously on what he's gotten himself into. Fr Dunn, you are in my thoughts and prayers; I hope greater things await you.
The lady dressed in white on the right, I'm told, is Mrs Owen Rhys Williams. She appears to be impatiently studying her watch, with a less than happy expression on her face. Her husband, "Bishop" Williams, faces an uncertain future, with the St Mary's squatters presumably no longer able to pay him and the prospect of almost certain ejection from the premises in a matter of weeks. Mrs Rhys Williams is not sharing Mrs Bush's levity.
Behind the foreground group, between Mrs Bush and the old woman she is charming, are "The Venerable Canon" Frederick W Rivers and the dangerously incompetent diocesan chancellor, Mr Smith. Leonardo or Raphael couldn't have conceived it better.
