by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 10, 2020 | Caregiving
Behind the Scenes of Caregiving #2 When you spend time in the desert, you savor every drop of water. The experience of caregiving offers no lack of hardship, disillusionment, and grief. Yet, beautiful gestures, hilarious incidents, and pride generating accomplishments...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 3, 2020 | Caregiving
Behind the Scenes of Caregiving #1 My wife has lived with Dermatomyositis for the past 16 years. Beautifully and graciously, with tenacity and grit, she refuses to let her disease define her. But to be honest, over this time, we have learned a lot about things we...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 26, 2020 | Resilience
Insights on Resilience #2 He watches every penny and generates extra income because they will be debt free. She will not quit until she finishes this degree…no excuses this time. He works two jobs so his children grow up in a better neighborhood. She grits her teeth...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 26, 2020 | Resilience
Insights on Resilience #1 In her classic volume, Strengthening Family Resilience, Froma Walsh defines resilience as, “the ability to rebound from crisis and overcome life challenges.” Some of us just want to bounce back. The truth is that after a significant life...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 26, 2020 | Spiritual Stuff
Seeing People #2 The following prayer attributed to the 13th century monk, St. Francis of Assisi, has been often quoted through the years. With pinpoint precision, he exposes our inmost struggles and aspirations. You will find that this prayer nudges you to be a...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 5, 2020 | Spiritual Stuff
Seeing People #1 Past the fear, past the anger,Past the words, theirs and mine,I see this one person. Beyond conservative, liberal or confused,Beyond the horror, expressed in good ways and bad,I see into the eyes of this one person. More than color or clothing...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 5, 2020 | Spiritual Stuff
Pushing and Prodding Stuck? Experiencing more can’t than can? Feeling cornered? Try asking “why” 5 times. I learned this tool from Daniel Pink and it might look something like this: First of all, think of an area in which you are experiencing...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 22, 2020 | Resilience
Pushing and Prodding If you get stuck, caught in a rut of of bad thinking, I have a tool for your toolbox. Interrogative self-questioning. It works like this. Suppose you have a problem and you can’t figure out any way to approach it differently. The issue could...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 22, 2020 | Spiritual Stuff
Watching the things you neglect to notice Can you remember a time as a child that you lay on your back in the grass watching the clouds? Tired and sweaty from running or playing, you plopped down alone or maybe with siblings or friends. Gazing long enough into the...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 8, 2020 | Serendipity
Words that resonate deeper with time Dating, wooing, trying everything in the book to get this girl to like me. I pop in the soundtrack for the movie, Stand By Me, and play the title track. Giving it my best Ben E. King, I harmonize pretty well, hamming it up for the...
