by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 15, 2022 | Serendipity
Jolts of Nature #1 Easing out of the hotel room with stealthy silence, I attempted not to wake my wife and children. No one stirred as I dressed and gathered my things. Everything unfolded according to plan until my departure. Unfortunately, hotel doors have all been...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 8, 2022 | Resilience
Activating Happiness #3 As it turns out, happiness is an inside job. It’s mostly in your head. Distractions, frustrations, and adversarial posturing may sometimes dominate your thoughts. But, you are not doomed to these. If you find your world to be overly loud,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 1, 2022 | Resilience
Activating Happiness #2In a world in which we can know far too much about other people (or at least the slice they share or portray on social media), I find this observation from Martin Seligman especially helpful. “Authentic happiness derives from raising...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 24, 2022 | Resilience
Activating Happiness #1 Not so long ago, I went for a walk in the woods and came face to face with a disturbing, yet liberating moment of clarity. I realized that I had been experiencing much more burden and grumpiness, and much less happiness than I wanted. Much more...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 16, 2022 | Serendipity
People to Admire #3 He is always the first one to arrive. Every week. He sits in his car until an appropriate time to come in for LOUD Crowd. Parkinson’s disease has been his unwelcome companion for years. Among other symptoms, it negatively affects his speech...
