Picto Diary

On to Ahmedabad by Sabarmati Vande Bharat train from Jodhpur

Sixty five percent of India's 1.4 billion population live in rural villages.

Mehrangarh Fort - Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Cummon, America! Let's go veg! You can do it!

TIMDT returns home.

Koessler Family off to India.

The Minerva Theichert murals were painted on sail canvas attached to the plaster walls of the temple's World Room in 1947. Preservationists cleaned and updated the murals and varnished the walls of the entire room.

Drums will attend University of North Texas College, of Music (UNT), located in Denton, TX (Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex). UNT's music school is selective, with an acceptance rate of 15% of applicants. UNT College of Music graduates include Don Henley, Pat Boone, Roy Orbison, Tom Malone (Blues Brothers), Lou Marini (Blues Brothers), and three-time Grammy winning saxophonist, Jeff Coffin (with whom Drums has jammed).

Bob and Peggy Sears were good friends of Mom and Dad. Sears was an SVP of Phillips Oil, based in NYC and classmate of Dad's at Harvard Business School, 1936. He served on BYU Business School Advisory Board when Dad was dean.

"Texas is hot, hot, hot! Texas is firing on all eight cylinders. I love living in Texas. People are trying to figure out a way for Abbott to get a fourth term. He's fantastic. Look. I'm about ready to become the person the left accuses me of being. I'm ready to lock and load. Let them come after me and find out the mistake they made."

Global economic growth just under 1% with no reason to expect improvement anytime soon. Service economies (US) doing better than manufacturing economies (China, Germany). Growing world chaos threatens economies dependent on world trade.
Close to losing control on US debt. Top three government expenditures are Social Security, Medicare and debt... in that order. Next year interest expenditure on debt will move into second place. Cogan: We need to think long term. Put in place policies that enable 2.5% annual growth rate. Within three years debt to GDP ratio will start to turn south.

The Pope, forty-year friend from Citibank days and regular Park City ski guest, poses on Sunrise ski run with Bald Mountain as a backdrop.