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Posts From The Road: Death Valley National Park … Badwater Basin & Devil’s Golf Course

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Long Desert Highway: After exiting from I-15 at Baker, Calif. visitors still have 115 miles of desert highway to cover before arriving at Death Valley National Park Visitor Center in Furnace Creek. Views such as this are plentiful along the way. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Salt Flats: Salt Flats cover hundreds of square miles in the floor of Death Valley National Park. Shown are visitors as they explore the salt flats at Badwater Basin in the national park. The flats look like snow from a distance but are hard as a rock to walk across. In the distance in the photo is Telescope Peak which is Read More

Fr. Glenn: Not Exalting Self

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

There sure is a lot of screaming and vitriol these days. Accusations of fascism here, genocide there … every “-phobia” and “-ism” imaginable … and some never thought of before. Much of it, of course, is just political or protester hyperbole to manipulate others toward a their “side”, or even to just score cheap points without taking into account all the facts or the whole of often myriad various concerns and variables. But underlying so many of demonizations seem to be airs of superiority. But for a true evaluation of self, humility is an essential ingredient, for “Arrogance Read More

All Shall Be Well: Reconciliation Frees Us

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By Deacon Cynthia Z. Biddlecomb,
M.Div. (ELCA)

Perhaps the best example of forgiveness and reconciliation is Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son, found in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 15. After squandering his inheritance on dissolute living, the renegade son finds himself impoverished and starving. Distraught, he decides he must humble himself and return to his father; he realizes that he would have food to eat as even a lowly servant Read More

Travel: Captivating Cape Town

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African penguins at Boulder Beach. Photo by Debbie Stone

Kristen Bosch Botanical Garden. Courtesy photo

By DEBBIE STONE
Santa Fe
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

There’s nowhere quite like Cape Town, the jewel of South Africa. This fascinating city is a meld of cultures, history and landscape, crowned by the magnificent Table Mountain. Often regarded as synonymous with the “Mother City,” (Cape Town’s affectionate moniker), this landmark is the single most welcoming icon to its people, as well as to travelers from around the globe.

Named a New Seven Wonders of Nature, Table Mountain is one of the Read More

Thirteen Congregations Tackle Homelessness, With Hope & Audacity

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By TYLER TAYLOR
Interfaith Coalition on Homelessness

Last June, dreamers from four Los Alamos houses of worship asked ourselves, “If we could interest 10 or more congregations and thought big, could we collectively actually help to reduce the very high levels of homelessness in Española, a community of neighbors only 15 miles away? As outsiders, with limited knowledge, who would we first need to learn from? Are there affective groups in the Valley we could partner with? Would they accept us?”

Now, after nine months, a groundswell of enthusiasm and hope has developed.

As a result:

  • Thirteen congregations,
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Closures Scheduled For Rover & N.M. 4 In White Rock

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COUNTY News:

Drivers in White Rock will see two scheduled road closures over the next two weekends for work under the N.M. 4 Water Transmission Line Replacement/Fiber Conduit Installation Project, managed by the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities (DPU).

Both closures are scheduled 7 a.m. Saturday to 7 p.m. Sunday. All businesses in the area will remain accessible.

Saturday, March 29 and Sunday, March 30:

Rover Boulevard will be closed at the N.M. 4 intersection for the whole weekend. Drivers who need to turn onto N.M. 4 may follow detour signs to enter from Sherwood Boulevard instead Read More

Aviation Trailblazers: Tuskegee Airmen To Be Honored At NM Space History Museum March 27

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Members Soloman Jackson, Alfred Reeves, Carolyn Peeler and Larry Jackson of Holloman AFB Tuskegee Airmen Chapter attending the 1st Tuskegee Airmen Day at NM Museum of Space History. Courtesy photo

NMMSH News:

New Mexico Museum of Space History is proud to announce a special event honoring the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, March 27, 2025. This celebration, held in collaboration with the Holloman AFB Tuskegee Airmen Chapter, will take place on the museum’s second floor and is free for the public to attend.

The Tuskegee Airmen were trailblazers in military Read More

Posts From The Road: Mission San Luis Rey

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Mission San Luis Rey: The front exterior of Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside, Calif. is beautiful upon arriving. The white exterior is impressive with the aqua domes on the roof with a portal that leads away from the entrance doors to the left in the photo. The wall to the right encircles the original cemetery, which has been on site since the mission was founded in 1798. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Mission Exterior: A view of the exterior of San Luis Rey shows the front of the mission from another angle. The long portal leads one into the entrance of the mission. Also seen is a small sampling Read More

Fr. Glenn: Making Our Bones

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

Please … just leave my old bones alone.

I was watching a BBC Timestamp Youtube video the other day in which they were excavating a medieval church in England, uncovering the skeleton of someone who had a chalice buried with him—apparently a priest. Poor guy; he probably thought he’d be undisturbed until the general resurrection that Christians anticipate. Nope.

It’s odd that while people are incensed if it’s requested that the body of a relative be exhumed, yet we dig up long-dead bodies almost without qualm. Certainly we understand the fascination of how people lived in the Read More