Walking around Athens, feeling that I don’t belong anywhere, I found myself drawn to the familiar Starbucks logo
On a road to nowhere..?
Our relationship to the future requires an understanding of the past, but we may need to go further back and deeper, before we can start imagining a better one
Love and solitude
I feel comfortable being here in Cafe Plaka on my own – I think I’m adjusting slowly to a new degree of solitude
What’s love got to do with it?
These days I find I’m fascinated by couples and human closeness, and it was a photograph of Melina Mercouri with her husband, Jules Dessin that captured my attention the most
A tale of two genders
The Greek crisis is impacting young people and young women in particular, but do we only ‘see’ unemployment among men?
Mapping the past and future
Today, I’m sitting in the sunshine, listening to the sparrows chorusing crazily. There’s sadness but, thankfully, that’s not all…
Sifting through what remains
This ongoing movement, working through our possessions, returning to the past again and again to see what remains, mourning what is lost, seems vital before I can begin to rebuild my life
Pistachios, pomegranates and other things I’ve learnt about grief
Whenever I eat pistachios I will remember the importance of creating space for the events in our lives
“We’re playing our last card…”
The Greek people I met are optimistic, but occasionally they wonder if they are naive to be hopeful…
Learning a new narrative
In an unfamiliar country you can easily miss signals or misunderstand them. But I worry less about things like that these days