I didn't have handy an appropriate image of the nastily divisive United States Presidential campaign but a beautiful rainbow after a storm is always nice.

These are images of my Sicilian-born grandfather Gerolimo Cangelosi. One is him as a child with his father and the other is a portrait of him as a rather handsome young man. I never met him but my mother told me he was a good father who started out in business by selling watermelon by the slice on the streets of Manhattan, and that he also helped to build (dig) the Panama Canal. He became a successful businessman and landlord in Brooklyn.

This is a summer evening scene of a peaceful, well-kept, and otherwise "insular" street in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In 1989 the neighborhood's reputation was forever stained by a small group of racist young men.

Pedestrian in Rome near the Central Station