Summertime

While my Florida friends are hyperventilating, I’m sitting in a cool office at the back of our apartment in Atlanta, shrouded by eight tall pine trees, in the shade. It’s actually chilly and comfortable to work in. There’s the sound of traffic – motorcycles, highway traffic, and people. But the still and quiet prevail. Midsummer, I am teaching graphic design and desktop publishing at SNHU, tweaking grant proposals, and listening to podcasts about health, AI, culture, politics, and religion. Just now, the question I heard was, “How will AI overtake my job as a professor?“

At this point in my life, I’m convinced that most students don’t read, write, or construct any new art. They plagiarize and copy photos into their designs without a thought to being original. Some of them put forth the effort to create and their designs make me smile.

Several friends are born this month. So, Leos are in my circle. One grandchild is born on August 20. She’s a kitten evolving onto a woman. She is my daughter’s daughter and we are three of a kind!