by Bruce McIntyre | May 24, 2019 | Resilience
3 People You Meet in a Storm #1 Each Spring in Oklahoma, there are two or three days dominated by storms. The whole city gets off work early and rushes home to watch storm tracking by their preferred Chief Meteorologist. We depend on the expertise of the Weatherman....
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 12, 2019 | Resilience
Cathartic Conundrums She just couldn’t do this any more. Surely this was hitting the bottom and not another ledge on the way down. Broke, exhausted, depleted, spent. She didn’t even have the energy to…well, to do anything. She was at her breaking point....
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 5, 2019 | Resilience
Living with Paradox Making peace with paradox. It’s tough, but essential for better living and better perspective. She received infusion treatments on her birthday. This was decidedly NOT the way she wanted to spend her birthday. But, her parents brought cake anyway....
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 25, 2019 | Resilience
From Bitter Reality to Resilient Living When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 18, 2019 | Resilience
For Those Who Lead “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end–which you can never afford to lose– with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality,” according to Admiral Jim Stockdale. What...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 13, 2019 | Resilience
For Those Who Lead “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...