As many people know, I love to garden and find great comfort in digging in the soil; in planting and watching new life form. I learned this love from my mother, who now due to Alzheimer's Disease has lost her ability to enjoy her lifelong love, gardening. It is for her that I wrote the poem. It was one of the last times I saw her in the garden and enjoying herself.
The steady gentle hands which I once held are now wrinkled.
Small walnut coloured spots from the sun lay as a map to former years.
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I currently teach graphic design and illustration at the University of Southern Indiana. I really love teaching and the challenges which this provides me. It not only keeps me young, but forces me to be that ongoing learner; sometimes referred to as a life-long learner. This goal of continuing to learn as finally brought me back to the role as a student as well. Some years ago I started and MFA, but due to an automobile accident was unable to complete it.
I have just been accepted as a student at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and will finally be able to work on the MFA. The great thing is I can continue working at USI and will visit the AAU in the summer. The rest of the time I am able to take my courses online.
Like technology and life, it is constantly changing and evolving. What a joy to be part of it all!
