by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 28, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Creative Gratitude #2 As you emerge from the indulgence of Thanksgiving overeating, take a moment to bask in warm thoughts. Perhaps you are in a home loaded with memories. If so, take a look around and be grateful. Find the beauty in the people around you or the ones...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 21, 2025 | Spiritual Stuff
Creative Gratitude #1 What if? Have you ever arrived at gratitude via the side door or perhaps the back door? Here’s what I mean. As Christopher Peterson articulates, “It may matter whether we think about the good things in our lives in terms of their presence (e.g.,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 14, 2025 | Caregiving
Words For Those Who Care #6 She keeps going. Her voice is soft. Her attempts at annunciation tend to leave her words slurred together due to the effects of Parkinson’s disease. She walks slowly, precariously on the verge of a fall at any moment. The disease has...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 7, 2025 | Caregiving
Words For Those Who Care #5 I love this bit of wisdom from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, “Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.” And grief is the appropriate word here. Any...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 31, 2025 | Caregiving
Words For Those Who Care #4 People never seem to ask when you’re ready for them. These surprise attacks can happen in waiting rooms, on elevators, or in the bleachers. “What’s wrong with your hands? Does your mother have Alzheimer’s? Why were you in the hospital?” In...
