03.28.09

Serenity

Posted in Life at 9:38 pm by Jan

What a month March has been!  

My consulting contract continues with the company that bought my prior company. Then I started to get involved with a new start-up – back to the mode of working all day and then building a demo into the late hours. 

And then, on March 26^th, Serenity was born.When I was a new software engineer, my boss, Saul, would every so often assign each of us to go off to some outside event – I attended the Artificial Intelligence Symposium at Stanford University one year, a 1-day overview of microprocessors, a Honeywell User’s conference.  Usually it wasn’t that the event was so extraordinary and also not that we had money to burn (Research & Development budgets were better than today’s, but still tightly managed).  But Saul believed that periodically you needed to lift your head up away from the coding sheets and take a few moments to view everything from a different perspective.  To just stand back, breath deeply, and regroup.  I found through the years that practice helped immensely – instead of just staying head-down focused on the next step in life,  the tactical events, it’s important to periodically step back, look at things more strategically, more long-term, more globally

Serenity Louise Pearlman – our first grandchild – was born almost a month early but still a 6 pound, 6 ounce healthy baby girl. Mom and baby are doing great. 

It’s always good to take a moment, step back, and look at the big picture.And what a different perspective seeing a new born baby puts on life. Wow!

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