Picto Diary - 22 January 2023 - Buenos Aires LDS Temple

Above: LDS Temple, Evita, Argentina. 21 January 2022. (Inadvertently omitted from yesterday's picto diary).

PM Walk. Barrio Democracia. I assume the LDS presence in Argentina is strong. I know at least a dozen relatives, friends and acquaintances who have served LDS missions in Argentina. Some of them have returned to Argentina frequently over the years. I have on occasion, been critical of seeming LDS leadership passiveness towards what I believe to be US government drift away from protecting principles of individual agency. In my youth, LDS leaders hammered hard on the essential principal of free agency and how the US Constitution was a divinely inspired document that guaranteed same. Now, not so much, or so it seems...the source of my concern. However, it must be acknowledged that there is a big difference in the LDS Church today, as compared sixty years ago. The Church membership has trebled in size since then. And LDS membership outside of the US, now, not sixty years ago, exceeds US membership. Seeing a strong LDS symbol overseas, such as this temple, helps me appreciate that LDS leaders have more to consider than just the US when dealing with government policy controversies.

Above: Woman in "disease prevention" mask. File image... not the woman I met on the aircraft. 22 January 2022.

American Airlines Miami to Salt Lake City. A masked sixty something woman in the adjacent seat asked me if she could put her small dog in the space under the seat in front of me! She had another bag that she wanted to put under the seat directly in front of her. L'audace, toujours l'audace!!!

Above: Roof Leak Response. 22 January 2023.

I found the roof was leaking on my return to the house in Park City. You can see the warping on the wood floor. TiMDT was in Ivins. The above picture shows my highly opportunistic, and creative impulses in solving the problem with a sophisticated work of art. I've decided to have my creation put in the Dia Beacon Museum next to Robert Smithson's great Glass Shards creation (scroll).

Above: Glass Shards. Robert Smithson. Dia Beacon Museum, on the Hudson, New York State.

Addendum:

 

As to economics it may not have been so much as the message but the messenger??!!😉
Montage, Marina del Rey, CA

Certainly, it appears to be so in the minds of many. For me, Socialism is a high price to pay just because you don't like the person successfully advocating for individual liberty.