UNDERTOW by Leigh Talbert Moore

Author:Leigh Talbert Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: family saga
Published: 2013-07-18T02:31:30.725129+00:00

May 1, 19--

Is it already May? Working on Bill’s Phoenician developments has taken over all the extra time I’d expected to have when I agreed to return home. Instead of pursuing fine art and indulging my muse whenever I liked, I’m always at the office taking meetings with the boys or sketching out the results of our decisions from those meetings. Bill and Bryant are determined to get their high-rises in the sky yesterday, it seems, and they take my plans and get them in the lineup as soon as I have them finished and approved.

I’d hoped to have more time to spend with Meg, catching up, playing with the baby, but as it turns out, time is flying and already we’re looking down the barrel of a year. The ground for Phoenician I is broken, and across East End Beach, extending down to Hidden Pass, the skeletons of new giants are waiting to straighten their backs into the sky.

Each complex will have a different theme, depending on what vacationers are interested in, and Bill is doing extensive market research to find the hottest trends and vacation destinations to guide our decisions.

My challenge is finding design concepts that won’t look dated in ten years. It’s possible a few years could pass before some of my concepts will be ready for unveiling, so I have to keep it to images that won’t need updating right away. It isn’t an easy task, and I’m new to this type of work. But I love flexing my creative muscles and discovering new ways to approach the job.

I found that if I distill the themes down to their basic elements and focus on those throughout, I’m happier with the results.

The hardest was Phoenician V, the calypso theme.

I thought it was a terrible idea, but Bill was right. Island vacations were off the charts in terms of popularity. Why should Americans leave the States for a vacation when our beaches were just as beautiful as anything in the Caribbean? We also had the best sanitation, and vacationers wouldn’t have to worry about things like antibiotics or immunizations or projectile vomiting if a stray lettuce leaf that wasn’t washed in filtered water ended up on their plates.

I love the work, and Bill and I are becoming closer friends than I expected. We start most days with coffee and a chat in his office and then I spend the rest of the time envisioning interiors and running the results past him for approval. It’s a great set-up, and although I demand control over my schedule, I find myself wanting to spend most of my hours at work.

When we toured the interiors of the buildings, and I saw my ideas becoming reality, it only motivated me to work more. And to think how hard a time I gave him when we were in high school. I’m turning into a regular developer myself.

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