by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 24, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff, Uncategorized
The blue of this water defies description. Accented by the Sierra Nevada mountain range, Lake Tahoe demands attention. Now I see what all the fuss is about. Not long ago, my wife and I had the chance to slip out to Lake Tahoe while in Reno to speak at a...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 20, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
Full blast, ready to go, up and at ’em! Go! Go! Go! Hurry from this call to that meeting to this catch-up work. Two months behind and getting behind-er all the time. Too many meetings and no time to do what we decided to do in the meetings! Run here, run there,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 30, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
Back from a few days at Orange Beach, Alabama, where the white sand is deep on this family beach. By family beach, I mean that if you see a teenager, they are generally with their parents! So, it’s a good a fit for us. I recognize that a beach trip is a...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 20, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
Cool morning waves washed up to my ankles, occasionally surprising my knees with an unexpected surge. Wet sand slid between my toes, as the morning breeze cured something deep within me. As sunlight slowly illuminated the shore, sandpipers and other birds...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 23, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
The moist smell of cool, morning, summer air stirred lightly past my nostrils and I breathed it in… deeply. Pepper, our cat, was playing with an unlucky toad. A young robin kept an eye on the cat as it pecked at the bird feeder. The steady sound of water...
by Bruce McIntyre | May 9, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
I love the way Ted Leeson, author of the classic book The Habit of Rivers, captures this phenomenon. Someone once asked Ray Charles what the worst part of being blind was; he replied, “Not being able to see.” Some things are pointedly obvious, and...
