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Knowledge and power

July 1, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

The question of whether we can make a difference in the world seemed particularly important as I walked through Plaka on Monday

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece, Spain

Detroit state of mind

June 14, 2015 by Julie Tomlin 1 Comment

Perhaps one of the most important things about Charlie LeDuff’s book on the former boom town is how much he is changed by what he sees

Filed Under: Books, Notes Tagged With: Detroit, USA

Will the revolution will be feminised?

May 30, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Talking to Nieves and Maria in Cafe Molar, it struck me that something revolutionary could be happening, that Spain’s women could be both visible, and fully involved, in shaping the country’s history

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture Tagged With: Madrid, Spain

The process of recovery

May 23, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

After loss there is a need to retreat and reflect before deciding what path to take towards the future, but nothing in the culture of Westminster politics appear to allow for this

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: politics

Breathing space

April 20, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Sitting outside The Black Lab in Clapham, enjoying a cup of coffee on a sunny day, it seems that loss has left me entirely out of sync with the rest of the world

Filed Under: Books, Notes Tagged With: Greece, London, Spain

From a distance…

April 13, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

With plenty of time to read and think while away in Yorkshire, I thought a lot about the appeal of soulful, brooding artists like Ian Curtis and the young wife who he treated with increasing disdain

Filed Under: Books, Notes Tagged With: Yorkshire

Awakening the spirit of attention and love

April 2, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

I hope that, ultimately, my experience of grief will enable me to be more attentive to what Simone Weil describes as the “silent cry, which sounds only in the secret heart” of the afflicted

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: London

Capitalism and women’s discontents

March 31, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

The words Marilena Simiti used often to describe people’s state of mind in Greece when I met her at Filion were ‘anxiety’, ‘resignation’ and ‘depression’

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Greece

The art of belonging

March 28, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Walking around Athens, feeling that I don’t belong anywhere, I found myself drawn to the familiar Starbucks logo

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture Tagged With: Greece, London

On a road to nowhere..?

March 26, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture Tagged With: Greece

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