In English there is only one word for love. The Greeks have four words to describe that universal feeling: Filia is the love of friendship.  Agape is the ultimate love, unconditional love, spiritual love.

Many painters from Picasso to El Equipo Cronica and other artists have riffed on some of Diego Velasquez's most famous images.  While living in Madrid, Spain in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s I saw the wonderful pop-art ceramic figures based on Las Meninas and other iconic Velasquez paintings made by two artists who called themselves El Equipo Cronica.

Ganesh is the elephant -headed Hindi deity known variously as the remover of obstacles, the lord of beginnings, patron of art, sciences and deva of intellect and wisdom.   perfect symbol for Nimita's Cuisine, Indian vegetarian caterer in Santa Barbara, CA.

Ghana is home to the ncient Ashanti tribe, famous for exquisite handwoven Kente cloth and iconic fertility dolls with large round heads and cross-like bodies.  My travels there in the 1970s took me the length of that West African country from Accra overland to Kumasi, then hitchiking into The Ivory Coast.