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September 1, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

People, books, stories, ideas and reading are weaving themselves together in my life

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

Struggle and story

August 26, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Nigerian writer and poet Chinua Achebe’s reflections on “meaningful optimism” – inspiration when hope seems in short supply

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: 28 Days, hope, London, politics

Caught between despair and hope

August 18, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Sitting in Peckham, between spells of rain, it was good to hear Alice, urging me to see my life as part of something bigger and, like her, to try to make a difference

Filed Under: Books, Notes Tagged With: cafes, hope, London, politics

PostCapitalism: There are no short cuts

August 8, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

It’s one thing to survive a catastrophe, or any kind of trauma; it’s another thing entirely to recover and start to rebuild

Filed Under: Books, Notes Tagged With: London

Facing up to Greece’s nightmare

July 14, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

We can’t avoid confronting the full scale of what’s happened to Greece by retreating into arguments about what could or should have been done

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Greece

Dreaming of a different kind of union

July 13, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

In the UK I have to work harder to hold onto the things that seemed so clear in Greece, but what I’ve seen there, and in the Netherlands this past week, also fuels my dreams

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Amsterdam, Athens, Greece, London, Netherlands

The power of us

July 13, 2015 by Julie Tomlin 1 Comment

Holding the tension between acknowledging the full scale of loss and continuing in hope isn’t easy – but it is the stuff that great exploits are made of

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Amsterdam, Europe, Greece, Netherlands

A place for everything

July 10, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Amsterdam was an interesting location to think about Simone Weil’s argument that order is a basic need of the human soul

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Amsterdam, Nederlands

A tale of two cities, or more…

July 4, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Back in London I feel cut off from Athens, missing the conversations, the intensity, the roll ups, the sense that politics matter

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

A matter of life and death

July 2, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

On this night in Athens, I didn’t want to accept the idea that nothing could be done to reign in the power of the corporations and the economic elites

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece

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