Synopsis 2023

This page continues from synopsis 2002 to 2022. Sending this out during the Christmas season, so have a great next year everyone! The year started off rather slow, to the point that I often joked with my wife it felt like we were squatting on the lawn watching the grass grow. Most of our tours … Read more

Kosman family history

Spelling variations of this family name include: Cosmas, Cosmos, Kosmin, Kosmas, Cosimo, Cosumano, Gosmin, Gosmas, Kusmin, Kusmas and many more. First found in Silesia, where the name gained a significant reputation for its contribution to the emerging mediaeval society. Kosman Czech and Polish: from an altered form of the Greek personal name Kosmas (a derivative of Greek kosmos ‘order’, … Read more

The Story of My Life – The Gypsy Traveler

My great great grandfather was an albino genius judge who remembered all the laws in his head, but he was a choleric tyrant who traumatised his Jewish wife, who eventually died from the abuse. More on the Kosman family history. After WW2 and under the Russians, as a student of electronic engineering my father fine-tuned his … Read more

Finally Getting Married

On the long Easter Weekend of Saturday, April 20, 2019, I Karel Kosman will be marrying the ever lovely Melasel Gerdane Espinosa at Padi Beach Resort in Oton, Iloilo City. Just go to Oton along the main road (yellow one in map above), past the Gaisano Oton (shopping mall), take the dirt road across the 7/11 … Read more

The early years of my life

Visited mom in Vancouver and she made me go through my big precious box from childhood that she has been lugging around so many years while moving from place to place in Vancouver and paying for the storage. Most of it was photographs, but I did manage to greatly reduce the box of sentimental paraphernalia … Read more

me, by Carl Jung

As a growing boy/man at one point I became interested in understanding myself better and how that interacts with other people around me, which has baffled me for the longest. I started contemplating about psychology and eventually got around to reading a book, 20 years in the making, written by the father of psychology, Carl … Read more

The War on Drugs is a War on the People

Typical Divide and Conquer Strategy Perhaps some food for thought. This is a culmination of many articles in different perspectives that I have read over the years, wandering thoughts, and now this article has crystalised things in my mind: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_psycho55.htm an excerpt here: For example, in 1995, the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a massive … Read more