by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 21, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff, Uncategorized
With a belly full of Peruvian delicacies, I strolled the Oklahoma City Arts Festival with my family. Brightly colored blown glass, intricately designed sculptures, and splendid captures of beauty in an array of art forms drew us in. Admiring and wondering at...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 14, 2014 | Resilience
“You have got to be kidding me!” I said once again. In the course of 5 weeks earlier this year, we experienced the following set of unfortunate events: I had another kidney stone (number six in my life). My wife had a gall bladder attack and gall...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 13, 2014 | Resilience
Some of us are strongly driven by feeling, some more so by thought. But, it’s never 100% one or the other. Each day, each week, I have a routine of tasks to do. These make sense in view of my monthly, yearly, and 5 year goals and they jive with my life...
by Bruce McIntyre | Apr 4, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
For a moment, I paused. With intention, I filled my nostrils and lungs with the cool, moist air of a Tennessee Spring day. My eyes landed on dogwoods just beginning to bud, red bud trees already splashing the landscape, and the pronounced hint of green on the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 31, 2014 | Resilience
In order to make large changes to improve your life or situation, you may find it most helpful to go upstream and make small changes. What does this mean? Well, think of a creek that floods over the road every time it rains. You could tear up the road and...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 21, 2014 | Serendipity
Writer’s block. Nothing flowing. Energy zapped. Stuck. With the laptop in its appropriately named position, I sat in the chair in the dark in our bedroom. Staring at the screen. Surely I can think of something to write. Nothing. My “then seven year...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 11, 2014 | Resilience
What adversity have you faced in your life? Think for a moment, perhaps back even forty years, of all types of challenges you have faced in your life. It may be that some experiences got the best of you, but I would be very surprised if you hadn’t...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 4, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
Have you ever fallen into a mental funk? As in, you just keep repeating and rehearsing defeating messages, bad life stories, and discouraging sequences of events? At some point, we are all prone to slip into the habit of bad self talk. But, we must stop it! I...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 26, 2014 | Resilience
At any given point, most of us are doing something that is working. We have habits or practices that contribute to health, good relationships, productivity, or peace. Of course, at any given point, most of us are doing something that may be hurting the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 21, 2014 | Spiritual Stuff
For a moment, I stopped. To listen, to breathe, to focus. And I heard the steady, rhythmic ticking of my cuckoo clock. Time ticking away. In one regard, the slow ticking of time is restful, reassuring, and pleasant. On the other hand, alarming. I am 41. I have...
