September 21st – Cosmic Walk and the Story of the Universe at Glen Tana

September 21, 2025 4:30 pm

New Story Spokane, in partnership with Inland Northwest Land Conservancy, brings you the next Cosmic Walk – a reflective journey connecting our human story with the story of the universe. Join us for an evening of mindfulness, nature, music, and community, as we walk together in celebration of the wonder of creation and our place within it.

As fading light becomes late evening and Summer becomes Fall, come glimpse “the original world, the one that makes us, rather than the one we make.” Walk the 13.8 billion years of Earth’s history and experience the “shaping power that curves a comet’s path and fills the owl’s throat with song.”

— Scott Russell Sanders

All are invited to Glen Tana- on Sunday, September 21st!

Come bring your own picnic at 5:00 p.m. or enjoy wine and soft drinks, which will be served at 5:30 p.m.

The Cosmic Walk will take place as the sun sets ending after dark.

4:30 p.m. Registration: Guests are invited to find their picnic spots and set up their blankets and lawn chairs

5:00 p.m. Picnic: (please bring your own food, preferred drinks, blankets and/or lawn chairs) Short hike through the forest to the Little Spokane River’s edge (optional)

5:30 p.m. Welcome: Wine and soft drinks served while you can visit the stalls of New Story Collaborative organizations to learn how they’re contributing to a reliable prosperity in our bio-region

6:49 p.m. Sunset and Land Acknowledgement: The Cosmic Walk begins, featuring new composition The Earth Awakens by local GU assistant professor and composer, Dr. Michael Kropf. Meditation: “In These Arms: A Song for All Beings” by Jennifer Berezan

7:20 p.m. All are invited to walk the spiral in silence, as moved. Leave as soon as you need to. Linger as long as you’d like to.

Please RSVP below:

Questions? Please call Roger 509 885 3651 or Tom 509 370 7381

“I still hanker for the original world, the one that makes us, rather than the one we make. I hunger for the shaping power that curves a comets path, that fills the owls throat with song, that fashions a flake of snow and carpets the hills with green. It is a prodigal, awesome, magnificent power ever casting new forms into existence, then tearing them apart and starting over.”

— Scott Russell Sanders, describing response to a mystical experience of the night sky