Picto Diary

Lest we forget.

Final Concert. Park City High School Jazz Band.

Happy 55th Anniversary for The Bishop and TIMDT.

Knowing of anti-police attitudes affecting many areas of our country, it is our hope that more Utahns will have a healthy respect for the police's critical contribution to making Utah a great place to live as they reflect on this tragic incident.

Cacti bloom.

Taiwan is only issue that could draw US into war.

I loved the painting, My Wife Nadya, shown above. The scene may be more idealistic than it should have been considering Stalin's crackdown on the kulaks (private farmers with land holdings), and the resultant famines in the late 1930's.

Chintz.

The true character of a nation can be discerned by the symbols with which it chooses to identify. In this regard, India's, forward, even if chaotic, momentum is confirmed by the grandiosity of The Statue of Unity. America is not yet wholly captured by negative and self-loathing symbols, but if the current trend of national deprecation is not reversed, look to nations like India to take America's place as avatars of democratic human progress.

The coincidence of traveling to Vadodara and having it be the location of the residence of an artist whose art piece we purchased fifty-two years ago, and then meeting the artist, who over the intervening years had accomplished fame, was one of those experiences in life that will be hard to forget.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela modeled their resistance in the American Civil Rights movement and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, respectively, after Gandhi and his Satyagraha movement.

Chandravilas. 120 years of continuous family ownership. Breakfast haunt of Gandhi, Patel, and Modi.