July 2023

For months, Alma Jewel would drive the car during Bill's absence, and remove the newly purchased distributor cap each time she finished driving. Per Marshall, for months his dad was always puzzled by the fact that the car seemed to have less fuel in it than he thought it should have.

Alma Jewel Dickerson RIP.

We stayed up late talking about old times, our kids and grandkids, travel and art. Like us, Paxmans had lived and traveled in various locals around the world, including two years in Trinidad. Our travel experiences made for interesting conversation.

Steven Kotkin: There are only six possible outcomes for Russia.

Cake!

The LDS missionary entry received by far the loudest applause from the parade attendees. I have been critical of religious groups which use parades as an active mode of proselytizing. LBGTQ groups in past Park City 4th of July parades have passed out small pride flags to kids, for example. Religious groups, including LBGTQ, in parades are fine. Using the parade as a pretext for proselytizing is not. The equivalent wrong (to Park City) in today's Provo parade would have been, say, missionaries passing out Books of Mormon to the parade goers, which didn't occur.

33 in attendance from a class of 380.Very proud of my reunion attending classmates. Lottsa grandkids and long-term marriages...excelling at advancing Western Civilization in the face of the severe head winds of a self-aggrandizing era.