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Coaching Café: Gremlins

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Coaching Café:
By LeAnne Parsons
Los Alamos
 
This month, we’ll discuss the last of the Big 4 energy blocks. If you’re not achieving what you want to, it’s most likely one of these four that’s keeping you stuck.
 
In the past few issues, we looked at limiting beliefs―things that you accept about life, about yourself, about your world, or about the people in it, that limit you in some way; assumptions―expectations that, because something has happened in the past, it will happen again; and interpretations―opinions and judgments that you create about
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How The Hen House Turns: Reviewing A Review

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How the Hen House Turns
By CAROLYN (CARY) NEEPER Ph.D.
Reviewing a Review

Recently, The Week magazine reviewed a book by Carl Safina. The title expresses the underlying passion driving the Hen House stories, so I’m taking the opportunity to mention it here, before I continue with Turkey’s history.

“Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel” was called “a gem” by Marc Bekoff of Psychology Today. The reviewer from The Week goes on to say that the book spurns “…the conventional wisdom that scientists should not anthropomorphize.” I agree, but I haven’t read a scientist who does. Most of us Read More

Father Casimiro Roca Considered Eminently Worthy Of Process Toward Sainthood

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Father Casimiro Roca. Courtesy photo
 
By Father Casimiro Roca of Chimayó, Saint of the North
By Hermano Davíd Fernández de Taos  

Father Casimiro Roca, the holy eminence of the world-famous spiritual pilgrimage destination known as El Santuario de Chimayó in North Central New Mexico, passed away in a very peaceful transition on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. Eternal rest grant unto him, Lord, and let your perpetual loving light shine upon him.

It is likely that many of the 300,000 or so people who each year seek the spiritual benefits and healing from the Santuario have not known Read More

Yang: Let’s Turn Competition Upside Down

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By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

Does competition always have to be against an “opponent?” When a person wants only to beat “the other,” or when a corporation only wants to gain on “the other,” it automatically leads to a win-loss outcome.  Competition is based on deficit thinking.  After the battle is won, then what?

I’ve said it before (see links here and here), and I’ll keep beating the drum: Competition works best when the work involves routine, and the operation has a mechanical nature to it. Hence, competition works well in the sports arena. 

So we use sports metaphors at our own peril:  Read More

Bill Hudson: Farewell My Beloved Los Alamos

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By BILL HUDSON
Los Alamos

My name is Bill Hudson and this is the final word from “an old jock” to the wonderful community of Los Alamos, where I have lived most of my life.

I arrived in Los Alamos in 1949, a first year teacher, just graduated from New York University. How lucky I was to find myself in this amazing town that offered me, not only a great job, but also motivated students, a beautiful setting, a diverse population, and most of all, a town that enabled me to continue to grow as a person and become the man I am today. I celebrated my 90th birthday in May.

I first taught P.E. at Mesa Elementary School, Read More

Solo Traveler: Old Tools

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Medical instruments from the collection of Henry Chapman Mercer. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Wooden cigar store figures from the Mercer collection. Photo by Sherry Hardage
 
Solo Traveler
By SHERRY HARDAGE
Old Tools

One of the best things about traveling deeply, staying in a place for a while, renting a room or a tiny apartment from local people, is that you come to know the locals, and they come to know you.

If they discover you have certain interests, in history or art, for example, they will introduce you to things you would never otherwise run across.

When I went to India in 1985 my hosts Read More

Smart Design With Suzette: A Lighting Plan

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A well-lit living room requires a combination of ambient, accent and task lighting. In this living room, recessed fixtures cast general lighting, wall-mounted lights showcase artwork and an adjustable floor lamp provides light for reading. Courtesy photo
 
Smart Design With Suzette
By SUZETTE FOX
A Lighting Plan

Something that often gets forgotten, and which can have a profound effect on the look and feel of a home, is lighting. Strategically placed lights and landscape lighting can drastically alter the way you feel about your home, how you interact with your home, and according to Read More

Pastor Granillo: Powerfully Human

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By Pastor RAUL GRANILLO
Los Alamos

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

In a godless world, this would be true. In a godless world, there would truly be no purpose for life. If you lived and then died, upon your death nothing else would matter and so your life would have made no lasting difference.

If you were never born, it still wouldn’t matter because there was no real purpose for your existence to affect. Certainly the godless world can invent a purpose, say to affect the future; but for what reason? When you really think about Read More

Snodgrass: Santa Fe Opera Creates ‘Jobs’ … Next World Premiere Takes Shape

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Mark Cambell; librettist, left, and Mason Bates; composer at the Opera Ranch. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Santa Fe Opera’s 14th world premiere opened this week with a tremendous media buzz for Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain.

How better to build on that momentum than for General Director Charles MacKay to announce the commission of the festival’s 15th world premiere: “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” now scheduled for the 2017 season.

The opera will be composed by Mason Bates, a prolific, young composer, currently serving Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By Jim O’Donnell
Reel Deal Theater

Now that school is starting back up we have an opportunity to show films that are geared more toward the adult patrons. We have several films that we didn’t have a screen for when they opened, so we have some catching up to do. Most of these will run for one week only.

On my short list are Ricki and the Flash, The Gift and Papertown. On my wish list are I’ll see you in my Dreams; Love and Mercy; Me, Earl and the Dying Girl and Far from the Madding Crowd.

This Friday we are opening Mr. Holmes, Southpaw, and Fantastic Four. Mission Impossible will hold for one more week. Read More