Kosmos Call for Essays & Other Works | And Our Spring Gallery of Poets
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The theme for Earth Day 2020 is climate action. It may seem difficult to 'take action' for the Earth right now. Yet, maybe we are taking the best possible 'action' for Mother Earth during this pandemic - consuming less and enjoying nature more. The Earth seems to appreciate the attention and the break. On this fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, may we all realize that 'what we…
Kosmos Spring 2020 Gallery of Poets
Tiel Aisha Ansari
Even withered trees give prosperity to the mountain.
– Japanese proverb
A withered tree. A standing snag
that’s home to unfledged eagle chicks.
Three days of work for charcoal burners,
shelter for a seedling. Substrate
for six different mushrooms. Log
aswarm with beetle grubs, a feast
for hungry springtime bears. Deep soil
textured with crumbling chips of wood.
The…
May’s Featured Poet | Marjorie Mir
Shelter
This, at least, we share
with the inhabitants
of cell and cilia,
multiple invisibles of dust
and with those earliest of teachers
in den and burrow,
nest and tunnel,
hive and hollow tree.
From them, we learned
geometries of roof and wall,
the weaving of dry grasses,
tension strengths of mud and clay.
Let me bring the story forward
to these four rooms, white walls,
a breadth of windows…
COVID-19 | Continuing the Conversation
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Following, are some additional thoughts about COVID-19 from the Kosmos community. We continue to explore this uncharted territory, through the lens of transformation.
Searching for the Anti-Virus | COVID-19 as Quantum Phenomenon
By Martin Winiecki
In this essay, I will not suggest or discuss “what is going on.” I rather want to invite you into a realm transcending the dichotomy…
Searching for the Anti-Virus | Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon
Coming from a spiritually-informed holistic worldview, I entertain the possibility that we as humanity – or some deeper part of ourselves, whether conscious or not – have dreamed this moment into existence as a catalyst for our collective evolution.
COVID-19 | “Seeing Together”
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The official name given to the Corona virus, COVID-19, reminds me of the Latin videre – ‘to see’, and co – ‘together’. What is it we are asked to ‘see together’ at this time? Clearly, we are seeing how precious and fragile life is. Many of us are experiencing unguarded moments of tender gratitude toward everyday things we recently took for granted: the songs of morning birds, the…
Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What’s Next?
By Jeremy Lent
Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a “Fortress Earth” or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values?
Home March 2020
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Fragile Gold
All wealth is derivative of Earth—most of all, values and wisdom. They are among the most recent emergent properties of our Universe's 13.8 billion years of inexpressibly glorious creativity, complexification of matter and energy, and deepening of consciousness.