Lifestyles

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

Peace Activists Hold Annual Los Alamos Protest

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Rev. James Lawson, left, meets with fellow demonstrators at Sunday’s Rally at Ashley Pond Park. The man at right wears sackcloth in repentance for the bombing of Nagasaki during World War II. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Giant peace statue moves through the crowd at Sunday’s rally.  Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Peace activists returned to Los Alamos Sunday for a rally commemorating the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki.

Activists also were in town Thursday for the 70th anniversary of the Read More

Peace Activist John Dear Speaks To Los Alamos

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Peace activist John Dear

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

Internationally known peace activist John Dear gathered with more than 300 protesters Sunday at Ashley Pond Park in Los Alamos to commemorate the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

“We’re here again like we’ve been coming every year to call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons,” Dear told the Los Alamos Daily Post. “Today we are joined by the architect of the civil rights movement, Jim Lawson, so with his presence we are all called upon to fight for nuclear peace … I encourage everyone

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Bryce Avenue Presbyterian Church Marks 40 Years

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A cross is hoisted onto the roof of Bryce Avenue Presbyterian Church in White Rock. Courtesy photo
 
CHURCH News:
 
For 40 years, Bryce Avenue Presbyterian Church has been faithfully serving God in the Los Alamos community. 
 
Bryce Avenue Presbyterian Church in White Rock. Courtesy photo
 
The congregation of Bryce Avenue invites friends and acquaintances of the church (known in early years as Sangre de Cristo Covenant Church) and of the former Covenant Christian School to join us in joyfully celebrating 40 years of God’s marvelous grace by gathering at 5
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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

Donations Sought To Save Old San Ysidro Church

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Massive rain and hail storm damages Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales. Courtesy/CHS

CHURCH News:

Donations being sought to help with storm damage repairs and preservation of the Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales at 966 Old Church Road.

For more than 40 years, it has been the mission of Corrales Historical Society (CHS) to restore and maintain the Old San Ysidro Church, located in the historic heart of the Village of Corrales. The Old Church dates back to 1868 and is listed on both the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places.

Work underway to remove Read More