Took a few minutes to get out of the building, the onslaught of end-of-semester meetings, gatherings, exit interviews and grading sometimes keeps me strapped into the office chair. A lap around the building and I spotted one of my students writing notes.
Irony? A few hours later, I learned one of them was for me.
The staircase pattern drew me in first, then the brook and dustpan at the bottom … make a pattern, break a pattern.
Spent the day running around, getting ready for my students’ annual cookout. Walked down back and found that late afternoon light just streaming through the trees again.
I’m not going to lie, late spring afternoon light in our yard is a magical thing.
Sometimes, I don’t see moments so much as foregrounds and backgrounds and the contrasts between them, little incongruities.
Three images, morning, noon and evening, all about things finishing – campus project, campus preaching and an on-campus cocktail hour before our Grady Salutes.
Today is convocation day for the college, but before that the National Press Photographers Association Student Chapter held a gallery opening in the building. I’ve been trying to get this organized for years, a display of the work the kids do throughout the year. Was very happy to to have it up and have parents, friends, faculty and staff join us for a bit before heading to the really big show.
At the conclusion of our spring faculty meeting and celebration, we all headed out on to Grady College’s patio to dedicate a paver to our late colleague, Barry Hollander.
He wrote his own obituary, which surprised none of us, and included this line:
I got to work with the very best faculty in the world, got to work with the very best students in the world, got to live and raise a family in the very best town in the world.
After we said a few words, Associate Dean Jeff Springston played a favorite tune of mine, Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms, and then we all went quietly on our way.
Thursday night some of us will be at the university’s Remembrance Ceremony and, on Friday, he will be inducted into the college’s Sanford Circle.
Going to be tough couple of days in the middle of which is our spring convocation.
