David Berkeley | Oh Quiet World
Oh Quiet World is a prayer for the world written during the time when everything stood still a while. The whole album plays like a prayer, beginning with the call to “wake up in the early light,” and ending with the word, “amen.”
Fernando M. Reimers
Fernando M. Reimers is Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education
Faculty Director, International Education Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He studies and teaches about innovative education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation, work and life in the 21st century. He also works in the area of…
Year’s End and the Kosmos Winter Edition Preview
Dear Reader,
2020…this remarkable and challenging year will soon come to a close. We hope you have weathered these exceptional times and send our sincere hope that the spirit of joy is kindled in your coming holidays.
Although our lives and the world have often felt chaotic and unstable this past year, at Kosmos we believe a better era lies ahead. That’s not to say that the deceptions and…
Helen Russ
Helen Russ, Ph.D, grew up in Central Western NSW Australia between the Macquarie and Castlereagh Rivers on a dryland farming property. It is here that she developed a relationship with land and the subtle energies of place.
Helen has an undergraduate degree in Systems Agriculture, majoring in environmental management. Following ten years in the Landcare movement, Helen began to…
Nancy Earle
Nancy Earle’s work has appeared in exhibits in galleries, divinity schools, libraries and theater foyers and retreat centers throughout the United States. Her colorful paintings have been exhibited at the National Liturgical Arts Council in Chicago (1984), the Ohio Biennial (1985), the Sacramento Liturgical Exhibit (1986), the International Earth Ethics Forum in Tampa, Florida (1991), the “Earth…
Reilly Dow
Reilly is an artist and scribe based in Mexico City. She grew up on Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada, spending a lot of time in the woods and freshwater, before moving to Mexico at the age of 18.
Since 2008, she has supported groups and organizations on four continents, creating visual artifacts in the room or during virtual gatherings to add texture and colour, and to invite creativity, depth,…
Wayne-Daniel Berard
Wayne-Daniel Berard, Ph.D, teaches Humanities at Nichols College, Dudley, MA. He publishes broadly in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. His latest full-length work of poetry, The Realm of Blessing, has just been published by Unsolicited Press. He is the co-founding editor of Soul-Lit, an online journal of spiritual poetry (www.soul-lit.com). Wayne-Daniel lives in Mansfield, MA with his wife, The…
Annette Sisson
A Nashville, Tennessee, award-winning poet, Annette Sisson is delighted to appear in Kosmos Quarterly again. Her poetry publications include Nashville Review, Typishly, River Heron, Psaltery & Lyre, SWIMM Every Day, HeartWood, and a chapbook (A Casting Off, Finishing Line, 2019). Winner of The Porch Writers’ Collective’s 2019 poetry prize and Honorable Mention in Passager’s 2019 poetry…
Mike Steward
Mike is a writer, working on various projects – verse translations, articles on modern poetry and ancient texts, and the import of the later plays of Shakespeare. Prior to this, he was active for many years as a child-care consultant, devising and teaching compassionate responses to early trauma. He lives in the ‘wild west’ of England, in Stroud, a haven for artistic dreamers of all kinds, and…
Don Salmon
Since my teens, I’ve been passionately interested in ways to connect the cultivation of inner peace with creating peace in the outer world. In my 20s and 30s, I worked as a pianist/composer, often using mindfulness in my work with dancers, actors, and other musicians. I’ve continued to make use of my musical background in my work as a clinical psychologist – creating a musical for special needs…