Life’s Little Lessons Forever:: The Rhythm and Reason for Life
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The Rhythm and Reason for Life
James E. Smith, Ph. D.
This book is the third in a series of the lessons learned during my life. The first volume, Life’s Little Lessons - with some not so little was primarily situated during the adolescent years up until college. That book was about those experiences that we all most likely encounter in our own way during those developmental years. The second book, Life’s Little Lessons, too - A Proper Life with a Career, starts off where the first one ended extending those life lessons learned while developing and executing a professional career. As in both volumes, it is the individuals you interact with all around you, plus the social, physical, and clearly professional environments you live in that impact who you are now and who you will become in the future.
While these lessons, collectively, are all unique influences in your personal development, it turns out these factors are only part of a set of what I refer to as lessons that everyone is exposed to and allowed to integrate into their personality, at their choosing. Together they essentially become the building blocks of your existence and help to determine how well you will, and can, participate in your ever-changing social, personal, and professional environments.
It is in the responses and reactions created through our experienced stories where we learn to understand who we really are and how best we are to live and work in the complex and interwoven environments that we exist in. This book consists of a series of prepared thoughts on what I think are life’s most important issues: love, spirituality, leadership, family and friends, passion and intimacy, plus some thoughts less specific. It also includes several quotes and sayings used to reinforce ideas for my friends, family members, and students. It is hoped that reading this book will help the reader realize the importance of these lessons and how attention to their details in your own life will enhance and encourage your continued professional, personal, and social development.
James E. Smith Ph. D.
James E. Smith, PhD is a retired university professor with forty-five-plus years of career experience as a practicing engineer and educator. This career, an easily recognizable façade, is overshadowed by his seven decades of living and experiencing life, often outside of his control or choice, which is the subject of this latest book in the Life’s Little Lessons series. It is the interactions with others and the environment we all live in coupled with the many choices that we are required, or choose, to make that establish who we are and who we will become as we walk this path through life. During his professional career, he has taken on the roles of engineer, corporate consultant, research center director, and professor. While these professional roles have satisfied his need to stay connected to his engineering profession, it is the maturing nature of experience where life takes on meaningful expression. Thus, the acts associated with living allow us to learn in a more meaningful way and to provide to others the results of those experiences. The contents of this book reflect some of those experiences. Some were used in classroom situations and others were prepared for friends and colleagues. Many more were written as an aid in understanding life’s little mysteries. Currently, during his infrequent downtimes, he is especially active in chasing after grandchildren and the operation of a “gentleman’s” farm where he and his wife look after deer and wild turkey plus an occasional meandering bear. Their four children visit at will but are particularly attentive when they need to borrow something or wish to leave their offspring to their parents’ designs. The four children he and his wife raised survived and flourished, so it is assumed that as grandparents they can handle the next generation hopefully as well, as inexpensive babysitters. This, again, may become part of another Life’s Little Lessons for the future, if we the older generation survive the energetic set of munchkins left to our designs. Grandkids are such a blessing, and grandparents frequently look forward to their visits, but they often feel the same way with their departures.
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