by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 16, 2013 | Spiritual Stuff
My wife and I have been to the Grand Ole Opry three times over the years. While we are not especially big country music fans, it is an impressive show. And we have found the same dynamics in play with each visit. 1. The stars we are familiar with typically delight the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 16, 2013 | Resilience
(excerpted from Brene Brown, Daring Greatly) It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 31, 2013 | Spiritual Stuff
With my energy and spiritual reserves running low, I knew that some time on one of my favorite trails would refill my tank. Last week, my feet finally hit the trail around Lake Placid at Chickasaw State Park near Henderson, Tennessee. At about 5:55 a.m., no one was...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 16, 2013 | Spiritual Stuff
This week in 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Canaveral, orbited the moon, and its lunar module Eagle landed on the surface of the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did a little pre-Michael Jackson moonwalk, and Armstrong uttered those indelible words,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 11, 2013 | Serendipity
To flabbergast means to make a strong impression on someone with something unexpected. Usually, we might say that we were flabbergasted to hear that she quit college, or that he has two girlfriends at age 96, or something equally amazing or alarming. Could it be,...
