by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 14, 2023 | Resilience
Places #4 On April 19, 1995, I was on the phone with a college bookstore in California when our office building shook and some of the windows blew out. I was working in downtown Oklahoma City. During those first days and weeks, we learned of staggering loss. Everyone...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 7, 2023 | Serendipity
Places #3 Walking past the gardens to the front porch, I am greeted by the Red Cup Rooster. Crowing with enthusiasm, the rooster is a fixture and greeter at this unique coffee shop in Oklahoma City. Inside, I order an Americano and a yummy dish. You guessed it, my...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 31, 2023 | Serendipity
Places #2 Just a few years ago, my good friend John and I went to an OKC Thunder NBA basketball game as we do each season. We parked for free on the sketchy side of the arena in a vacant lot, with abandoned buildings, broken glass and a general atmosphere that makes...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 24, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Places #1 Do you have places that help you create calm? Places that prompt better thought and perspective?When I visit my family in Tennessee, I look forward to at least one morning meandering along the trails around Lake Placid at Chickasaw State Park near Henderson,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 17, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Examinations #2 In what area of your life do you need less? In what ways do you need more? For instance, when I take time to hike a state park trail, I often think that I need to do this more. Engulfed in the smells of moist earth, oxygen-rich trees and morning mist,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 10, 2023 | Serendipity
Examinations #1 Books, stamps, coins, dolls, cars, toys, records…all common items that people collect. These, and a million other items find their way into our treasure troves. Personally, I have a modest collection of books, bells, compasses, cap guns, metal cars and...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 3, 2023 | Caregiving
New Book! Receiving Peace #5 Swept up in the forces around us at any given season of life, you may find that returning to this question helps stabilize and prioritize your world. What is a good day? Whether balancing too many demands, managing a life-threatening...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 25, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
New Book! Receiving Peace #4 Today, you have enough. Enough love, enough energy, enough courage to get to the end of the day and manage everything that comes your way…at least for today. No, you may not feel like it at the moment. I found this exercise hard to receive...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 25, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
New Book! Receiving Peace #3 Relational Spirituality suggests that strengthening one’s relatedness to other people and to other sources of interest beyond self interest produces joy and vitality. To be sure, not all people produce this effect. But long-term isolation...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 18, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Receiving Peace #2 Whether you consider yourself religious or not, caregiving and chronic illness soon leads you into inherently spiritual terrain. These scenarios are frustrating. They make us mad and sad; and they prompt us to cuss and pray. Everyone experiences...
