Happy New Year!

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his indivualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

We must rapidly being to shift from a thing-oriented society to a person oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and prperty rights are more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (from his speech, "I have a dream")

With these words I wish all my friends, far and near, a Happy New Year. May we continue to question, learn and try to make the world a little bit better.


Kārlis and Julia in front of the Civil Rights Monument in San Francisco.