Rebecca Wildbear
Rebecca is a river and soul guide who helps people tune in to the mysteries that live within the Earth community, dreams, and their own wild Nature, so they may live a life of creative service. She has been a guide with Animas Valley Institute since 2006 and is author of the forthcoming books, Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration, and Advocacy for Earth and Playing & Praying: Soul…
Annie Spade
Annie Spade is Founder-Director of Montessori School of The Epiphany in Austin, Texas. In addition to directing the non-profit since 1993, she also serves as lead classroom guide for the 2-6 year olds. The school setting on eight wild acres allows her and the children to foster wonderment and connection to our planet home.
On Facebook, Annie Spade is an admin for the Teilhard de Chardin Group,…
Mino Akhtar
Mino Akhtar retired after 40 years in corporate America as a management consultant in IT and Organizational Transformation and became a certified coach, facilitator and conflict resolution specialist. Originally from Pakistan, she grew up on four continents before settling in Bergen County, N.J. 40 years ago, where she lives with her husband Shahid. She has four grown children. She writes a blog…
Graham Meltzer
Graham Meltzer has been a builder, architect, educator, researcher, author, photographer, and conference organiser. He has lived a total of 30 years in intentional communities including the last 15 in the spiritual ecovillage at Findhorn. His doctorate, based on cohousing, considered the link between communal living and environmental praxis. Graham is a humanist and Marxist who eschewed…
Dr Gianni Zappalà
Gianni is an educator, facilitator and social impact expert with over three decades experience in the University, commercial, Government and For Purpose sectors. He is a Professional Fellow at the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at the University of Technology Sydney and Principal of Orfeus SQ, a niche advisory service that applies Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) based frameworks to program…
Abbey Joy Cmiel
Abbey is an apprentice at Rancho Mastatal, a permaculture, natural building, and agroforestry education center in Costa Rica. She graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a degree in Global Studies with a focus on Latin American social and political systems. She hopes to use her Earth-skills and passion for social and environmental justice to help re-weave humans into…
Worthy of Awe | and February’s Poet
“And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.” Song of Myself – Walt Whitman
Dear Kosmos Family,
Welcome to the Lunar New Year - the arrival of spring based on the cycles of the Moon. This is the year of the Ox – symbolizing strength and hard work. And we certainly do have work to do.
This is a sacred time. What do I…
February’s Featured Poet | Kelly Lenox
Reverb
For three days, the child cried
over her lost rock. No one
could find it—rocks
were everywhere, starting
with the gravel driveway.
Her mother understood love
for a missing mineral. Could not
decipher the description.
“It was three. It was three bright,”
choked out between sobs.
Mama prayed for a miracle
and took her child on a hike
with notebook, recording
every…
Kosmos Winter 2021 Gallery of Poets
Nancy Austin
Birds Not of a Feather
My husband yells drop everything, binoculars in hand,
points to a black bird on our birch: grey bib and collar,
a breast rosier than a robin, heavily blushed cheeks.
A different bird, it hops like a woodpecker, forages
like a flycatcher, dazzles with deep wingbeats of a crow,
stays for days, squeaks a language we don’t know.
We search bird books in vain,…
How To Prepare for the Unknown
Dear Kosmos Family,
Some people ask us why we are not preparing our readers for civilization’s ‘imminent collapse’. The perfect storm of converging crises we face does feel insurmountable at times. Yet, it is neither the role of Kosmos to speak with scientific authority, nor to add to the hyperbole that floods much of the media. Our focus is not on the world that is ending, but…