Since becoming a full-time ScrumMaster, I haven’t written much, unless it reflected on a significant event I wanted captured:
- I am paid to be a ScrumMaster.
- I coached a team as a ScrumMaster.
- I inspired coworkers to email in Morse Code.
- My wife’s pregnancy was far enough along such that we had something the size of a berry, and it had a heart beat.
- I was let go from Altisource Labs, as one of a thousand people over two days.
- I got hired by Zipcar as a Scrum Master / Agile Coach.
- I led my first mass Retrospective.
- I delivered my first sermon.
And then:
- I became a father.
Let us welcome Zephyr Charlotte Lamont to the show! Girl, 7/17, 4:11pm, 7lbs 7oz, 21in #ZCL pic.twitter.com/4IrEHLaMmt
— Merrill B Lamont III (@mlamont) July 18, 2015
And through a year since:
- I embrace the present moment a little more easily.
Diving into the above a bit, besides when we’re at the playground, or doing swim lessons, or other situations where I feel her life is in my hands, I’d say the most present I’ve ever been was just before and just after my daughter’s birth. A significant reason? My phone was off.
My phone wasn’t dead. My phone wasn’t almost dead. I wasn’t trying to be respectful. I wasn’t trying to hide. There was just absolutely nothing more important in the world (for me) at that extended moment, and the unquestioning clarity of that absoluteness has never… happened before.
I wonder when it will happen again.
My being unfathomably present was the only thing that could have happened (for me) at that extended moment.
I wonder when it will happen again.
Has this ever happened – for you?