Kendra Smith | The Disappearing Art of Living
As a reclusive artist, she’s a mysterious figure, revered, mythologized, and missed with a fervor that most artists would marvel at.
Finding Wisdom at the Edges
by Alain Ruche, Kosmos Ambassador
Mindset is our established set of attitudes, and worldview our particular philosophy of life or 'picture' of the world. Even minimal self-awareness will reveal to us how constrained our personal range of vision truly is. This is why looking at things from another angle is so critical in our complex, interconnected, unpredictable and rapidly changing world. If…
Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts
By Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach
Sam Lee is a British singer of traditional folk songs, a collector, an archivist, a conservationist, and a radical re-interpreter of the British folk tradition. He is the driving force behind the eclectic, award-winning folk club 'The Nest Collective', and an emerging figure in the Extinction Rebellion movement.
Killing Us Softly
...it's hard to be part of this fossil fuel poisoning, which, ultimately, is a collective suicide. I wish I knew how to save our species, but nobody could save Mr. Stone, or the classmate our daughter lost in high school, or the family friend who left the note pinned to his shirt.
Kosmos Quarterly Summer Preview | All My Relations
Dear Reader,
When I chose the phrase, 'All My Relations' as the theme for the Summer Quarterly, I chose it with the understanding that it is sometimes misused. In the Lakota language, Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ is an important ceremonial prayer of harmony and oneness with all beings.
Mitakuye means relations and Oyasin means more than family, more than a Nation, more than all of humankind, everything…
Why the next 12 years could be the making of us
By Rob Hopkins, via his blog and Reconnect magazine
After two extraordinary weeks in May in which Extinction Rebellion brought London to a standstill, kids walked out of school to join the School Strike for Climate, Greta Thunberg dropped in to meet MPs and others, and David Attenborough’s ‘Climate Change: The Facts’ documentary went out on primetime TV, the UK parliament declared, the day…
Genesis Farm | Tribute to Thomas Berry
By Sister Miriam MacGillis
Miriam Therese MacGillis is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell, New Jersey. She lives and works at Genesis Farm, which she co-founded in 1980 with the sponsorship of her Dominican congregation. Beginning in the 1980’s Miriam coordinated programs exploring the work of author and 'geologian', Thomas Berry, as he has interpreted the New Cosmology.
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The Most Important Thing
By Brian Sokol
Since 2012 Brian Sokol has focused on telling the stories of refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and stateless people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The Most Important Thing—his ongoing, long-term portraiture project—seeks to humanize and convey the dignity of individuals who have been dehumanized by conflict, government policies and the media.
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Break Free
My identity and my life as an activist has a very specific energy that people associate me with. In many parts of my life, I saw it as definitely putting me in a box in the way people saw me and my story. People didn’t understand the complexity and diversity of what I was fighting for or the way I wanted to use my voice to influence change.
Spirit of Global Citizenship | Call for Essays and Works
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it’s where the rich use public transportation. - Former mayor of Bogota, Colombia, Enrique Penalosa
Kosmos Quarterly Call for Essays and Works
Dear Reader,
We are preparing the December edition of Kosmos Quarterly and hope you will participate by submitting an essay, poem or artwork. We will be exploring what it means to be a…