by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 8, 2025 | Resilience
Mountaintops #1 I spent the summer of 1994 in Japan. Living with a Japanese family, I completed my next-to-last semester of college and enjoyed traveling around the country as well as seeing Hong Kong and South Korea. One of the true highlights was climbing Mount...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 28, 2025 | Caregiving
Love #3 Some songs say what stirs in our souls. And, there is nothing like love remembered. The Beatles say this well in their song, In My Life.There are places I’ll rememberAll my life though some have changedSome forever not for betterSome have gone and some...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 21, 2025 | Caregiving
Love #2 At last, my love has come alongMy lonely days are overAnd life is like a song The opening words of the song At Last! capture so elegantly the sentiment that leapt within almost everyone who has ever known romantic love. This ageless song was written...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 14, 2025 | Caregiving
Love #1 All days are not equal Over the course of all relationships, you encounter blissful seasons and tough slogs as well.My wife and I will celebrate 30 years of marriage soon. Fortunately, we have experienced early years of freedom and delight, and many years...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 12, 2025 | Resilience
Facing Fears #2 You may think that other people have no fears. In that, you would most likely be wrong. Even your heroes have certain fears and hesitations and avoidances. But, they find ways forward anyway. Things people fear: …Asking the question…Trying new...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 1, 2025 | Resilience
Facing Fears #1 “Fear and courage are not mutually exclusive,” Brene Brown articulates so precisely. You may tend to think that the courageous do not experience fear or that if you have fear, you are not courageous. But, this is not so. The difference comes not from...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Unexpected Paths to Happiness #3 It is so easy to take the path of bitterness and harsh condemnation of others. But, you don’t want that. It might feel good for a vindicating moment, but ultimately it sours your soul. Choose lovingkindness. Counter your...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 20, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Unexpected Paths to Happiness #2 Are you here now? Whether you know it or not, you probably spend an alarming amount of your time like this:…playing out future conversations…wishing you were somewhere else…deflecting imagined pushback…longing for a better...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 10, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Unexpected Paths to Happiness #1 “Distractions waste our energy; concentration restores it to us,” states Sharon Salzberg. We are living in the midst of the age of distraction. In all of human history, it has never been easier to be distracted. It is so...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 3, 2025 | Serendipity
Fresh Tracks, Fresh Start Laying down the first tracks in the falling snow in our neighborhood several years ago, my son and I savored the moment. No wind. Temperatures relatively mild, hovering right around freezing. The evening was lit up with the blanket of snow...
