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Fantasy and the challenge of mourning

October 13, 2017 by Julie Tomlin

If our culture is a collective fantasy, grief is maybe too much of a threat

Filed Under: Ideas, Notes Tagged With: Athens, capitalism, community, fantasy, grief

Paradise in hell

September 17, 2016 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

I haven’t found a way yet of holding both realities, which seem to coexist while remaining very distinct

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Athens, Detroit, Madrid, Rebecca Solnit, San Francisco, USA

Message in a bottle

February 16, 2016 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Often the message in a weekly email I’ve signed up to has been very timely, including a recent one that included a reminder that building a new life is possible, but requires a great deal

Filed Under: Books, Notes Tagged With: Athens, Detroit, London, Madrid

Light and darkness on Twelfth Night …

January 6, 2016 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

There is so much more we need to do, but when times are dark, maybe light, joy and celebration can be acts of defiance?

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: 2016, Athens, Greece, London

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

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

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

The power of ‘no’

June 30, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Four articles I’ve read most accurately reflect what I’ve been seeing and hearing in Athens over the last few days

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: Athens, Greece

A new era begins

June 29, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

As we sat eating souvlaki and tzatziki in a Monastiraki restaurant, Maria read on her Twitter timeline that bank closures and credit controls would start Monday

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

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