by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 22, 2022 | Serendipity
Jolts of Nature #2 Following an arduous journey from Oklahoma, we settled in for our first full day on the beach at Tybee Island, Georgia a few years ago. Our teens couldn’t wait to get down to the water and play in the waves. Kathy and I...
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 10, 2022 | Serendipity
People to Admire #2 Earlier this summer, my 20 year old daughter and I climbed Guadalupe, the high point in Texas. Granted, 8751 feet places this peak at only the 14th highest high point in a U.S. state with Denali in Alaska taking the prize at 20,310 feet....
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 2, 2022 | Serendipity
People to Admire #1 The humidity hung in the air so thick you could almost see it. Our fingers were coated in powdered sugar and we were surrounded by other tourists taking in the sites of New Orleans with a stop for beignets at Cafe Du Monde. As we enjoyed this...
by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 27, 2022 | Resilience
Timeless Truths #3 “Suffering is universal. But victimhood is optional,” states Dr. Edith Eger. When bad things happen, you may sometimes be prone to ask, “Why me? What have I done to deserve this? Why do these things happen to me?” This...
by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 19, 2022 | Resilience
Timeless Truths #2 “Suffering is inevitable and universal. But how we respond to suffering differs,” observes Dr. Edith Eger. “The truth is, we will have unpleasant experiences in our lives, we will make mistakes, we won’t always get what we...
