November’s Featured Poet | Tricia Knoll
Who Am I to Say?
Tell my story, begs the past, as if it was a prayer
for an imagined life or a life that’s better than the life you live.
– Terrance Hayes
Who am I to tell this story?
A white woman pushing seventy,
remembering words I wish I had not said,
door locks hammered down
against young black men on rain-slick city streets.
I am not at risk. Not a victim.……
Transforming ‘Hopeful’ to ‘Helpful’
Dear Reader,
Have you been following the debate between Deep Adaptation's Jem Bendell and The Patterning Instinct's Jeremy Lent? Essentially, Lent is saying that Bendell's framing of societal collapse as 'inevitable' creates hopelessness. Bendell’s response is that denial breeds 'false hope' and it’s time we start learning to adapt.
Both men are thought-leaders with academic backgrounds,…
Possible Futures | Call for Essays; and Sacred Season Gifts for You
Dear Reader,
For twenty years, Kosmos has urged people of goodwill to heed the stirrings in their heart and join the rising tide of global transformation. This movement-of-many-movements has no center, no leader, no rigid order, and yet it expresses at many levels a keen commitment to reshape our political, economic, and social systems in greater alignment with the needs of all Life. And this…
Autumn Gallery of Poets
Lorene Delany-Ullman
The dead will return to berate us
Sullen clouds
but no drizzle
the weather impetuous—
a trace of sun
tips us towards promise,
yet, what begs us to the shore
are dead sea lions
with gunshot wounds
the sea no longer sanctuary,
death equals death,
the scale of grief
never balances out—
what clings
to me, you,
and the coral reefs
is…
Autumn Poetry, Music, and Mosaics!
Dear Reader,
During the beautiful autumn in this hemisphere, I am paying attention to the wild and generous 'seeding' taking place all around. Milk weed pods burst with downy floss sending tiny angel-seeds aloft, to settle and sleep for the winter. Acorns bombard me in the woods, each nut containing the blueprint for a tree. Yet, even under a microscope, the tree cannot be seen. Something has…
Wise Action for Earth and Life
'My actions are my only true belongings' - Thich Nhat Hanh
Dear Reader
If you were able to attend a climate march on September 20, you felt the power of the people. We are all in this together! In magnificent numbers, we took to the streets in cities and places around the world, led by young people of great courage. And this is just the start.
In this spirit, we are making many articles…
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Burning Man | What We’ve Learned
By Caveat Magister and Photography, Scott London
"We don’t need a blueprint, we don’t want a master plan, we just need to practice the skills and create the kind of spaces we want to live in, and share them."
Read more…
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Group Work
Holacracy | An Emergent Order System
By Brian Robertson
BR | Instead of asking how do we get better top-down control, I think a more interesting question is how can we change the fundamental frame to not need top-down control?
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Introduction
Introduction
Editorial
New Spirit, Wise Action
By Rhonda Fabian
The times we live in ask much of us. How can we know the best ways to respond to the converging crises we face? How can we live lives of deep meaning and joy in the midst of confusion and pain, and be catalysts for positive change?…
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