by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 15, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care Like many parents, we worked to “get our act together” before we had children. Assuming we could shield our children from unnecessary hindrances, our six and half years of marriage prior to children helped us mature our relationship, our...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 11, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care 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 | Feb 1, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
From Bitter Reality to Resilient Living Worries were piling up, and January has about 492 days. So, I set off on a 27 degree early morning walk at Martin Nature Park in OKC. Trails are dirt and rock, no pavement, which always makes me feel like I’m further from...
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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 4, 2019 | Serendipity
Fresh Tracks, Fresh Start Laying down the first tracks in the falling snow in our neighborhood, my son and I savored the moment. No wind. Temperatures relatively mild, hovering right around freezing. The evening was lit up with the blanket of snow reflecting all...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 31, 2018 | Resilience
Considering Your Next Best Step Whether you are twenty-one and on the cusp of a move or ninety-two and writing your final chapter, you are considering your next best step. For the young, life is wide open and full of possibility. But even for those with decades under...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 14, 2018 | Serendipity
They didn’t know it was impossible, so they did it. And now for something different. Amid the holiday hustle, there yet remain some profound moments of reflection as we wrap up a year and launch into a new one. Or, perhaps it is the very sentimental and...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 7, 2018 | Serendipity
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? And now for something different. Amid the holiday hustle, there yet remain some profound moments of reflection as we wrap up a year and launch into a new one. Or, perhaps it is the very sentimental and...
