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A beggar at the table

May 29, 2015 by Julie Tomlin 1 Comment

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?

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

With a little help from my friends

May 28, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes 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

Bleak House

May 8, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

The realisation that we have another five years of a Conservative government, as well as the heavy rain, has intensified my sense of despair

Filed Under: Cafe culture Tagged With: 28 Days, cafes, community, hope, Lancaster

Counting the cost

April 24, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: Lancaster

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

Tea of the absurd

April 1, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

The “W/ Fashion Power Tea” was a perfect reminder that I shouldn’t take myself too seriously, even when life itself seems extremely serious

Filed Under: 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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