It can make us uneasy when people come begging, but I also wonder if these days friends feel anything similar when I go to them because of my needs?
With a little help from my friends
So often what we experience falls short of the ideal, but maybe we need to be more accepting and learn to better navigate all the compromise and the contradictions
The process of recovery
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
Bleak House
The realisation that we have another five years of a Conservative government, as well as the heavy rain, has intensified my sense of despair
Counting the cost
Living in the permanent now might for some of us might be a response to fear, a way of avoiding pain or what it might cost us to struggle and hope for a better future
Awakening the spirit of attention and love
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
Tea of the absurd
The “W/ Fashion Power Tea” was a perfect reminder that I shouldn’t take myself too seriously, even when life itself seems extremely serious
Capitalism and women’s discontents
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’
The art of belonging
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