2023 Mountain Club Short Course Season
Mountain Club Swimmers 8 & under at the 2023 NM Winter B Championships. Courtesy/Anna Zhang
Mountain Club Swimmers 9 & older at the 2023 NM Winter B Championships. Courtesy/Anna Zhang
By ANNA ZHANG
Swimming Coach
Mountain Club
With support of our parents, Mountain swimmers participated in two important meets during 2023 short course season:
- 2023 New Mexico Swimming Short Course (Winter) B Championship Meet Feb. 25 to 26;
- 2023 New Mexico Swimming Short Course State Championships March 2 to 5.
For the 2023 New Mexico Swimming Short Course (Winter) B Championship Meet:
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Huang: ‘Better To Light A Candle Than To Condemn The Darkness’
View from a drone of 300 community members gathered in the shape of a heart at the Rotary Club of Los Alamos fundraiser for the people of Ukraine April 16, 2022 at Overlook in White Rock. Drone photo by Cpl. Sheldon Simpson/LAPD
By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos
When I heard some officials at the White House press conference said, “China has at no point condemned Russia’s invasion to Ukraine”, I recalled what Anna Louise Strong said:
“Better to light a candle than to condemn the darkness”.
Strong was an American Journalist who is highly respected in China. She lived in Moscow for nearly 30 years and initiated Read More
Posts From The Road: City Of Rocks State Park
Park Entry Road: Visitors enter City of Rocks State Park along a straight road across prairie grass lands as seen in this photo. It is not until you pass over a small ridge that the “city” suddenly appears before your eyes. The road leads directly to the park visitors center. The area became a state park in 1952. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
The City: Rocks in the City of Rocks State Park were the result of a massive volcano almost 35 million years ago. Since that time, wind and weather have formed the rock formations which make up the city. Shown is a panoramic view of the entire “city” from a nearby Read More
Fr. Glenn: ‘Ask For Anything But …’
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Well, we are closing in on the Christian Holy Week, beginning this year on April 2nd with Passion (or “Palm”) Sunday, and to end that week in remembrance and celebration of the most pivotal events of the Christian year—the passion, death and then resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth two-ish millennia ago.
Remembrance of those events cannot but elicit memories of our losses of loved ones often suddenly and without notice. Whether by accident, crime or by a mechanical failure within the body by embolism or aneurism or some undiagnosed malady, few sorrows strike us so deeply. Even Read More
Tales Of Our Times: Chestnuts Carry Ancient Stories Of People And The Environment
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water
Chestnuts have been celebrated through the ages, which does not imply their time is over. Their story is rich in its own right and also adds context for items in the day’s news.
Some 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, the world population was maybe one to ten million people much like us, yet who ably met basic needs despite the lack of any writing system. About then, populations began growing staple food crops in many regions of the world. Our knowledge has multiplied many times over from then till now. Even with all that, vastly more lives and livelihoods Read More
All Shall Be Well: May We Be Quick To Hear, Slow To Speak, Slow To Anger
Clergy from left, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired; Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Assistant Rector Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Courtesy photo
By The Rev. Nicolé Raddu Ferry
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Los Alamos
And all shall be well.
Those of you reading this article have learned that we are in the midst of something. Yup we moved our clocks ahead one hour. Anyone still tired? Families of school children are thinking “will we make it to Spring Break?” The calendar says that Spring has arrived and yet although we are ready to not wear our coats and hats the little snow squalls we have experienced Read More
Father Theophan: Giving Up For Lent
Inside Trailer Chapel. Courtesy/Father Theophan
By Father Theophan
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church
Los Alamos
As we pass the middle point of the Great Fast, Lent in western parlance, the question often arises from friends not often seen, “So what are you giving up for Lent?” It’s met with a myriad of answers: red meat, chocolate, sweets, movies, etc.
Orthodox Christians don’t ask. Firstly, because fasting is a personal matter, one that should not be judged by another, and secondly, the rules for the Great Fast are ubiquitous in the eastern faith.
Simply, we’re instructed to become vegan, Read More
