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Searching for answers

January 11, 2016 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Acknowledging the endless cycle of agitation about what can be done about world problems might help us find a way forward…

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: cafes, Europe, Lancaster, refugees

No more heroes

December 9, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

What is required of us emotionally, morally, ethically, if we are going to be part of building something new?

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: cafes, community, Lancaster, rebuilding

A new phase of the dance

December 7, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

I don’t feel the same loneliness I felt before I met Mark – because this is a different stage in the dance…

Filed Under: Notes Tagged With: cafes, rebuilding

Is that all there is?

November 28, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

During a trip to Sidmouth, I got to think about cafes, poscapitalism, and the fact that what’s needed is more than cool coffee bars and distressed wood

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: cafes, Detroit, London, postcapitalism

Community and creativity in Chicago

November 3, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

Gentrification seems to hollow out of their original meaning and purpose of places, so that people get the outline, but not the relationships, shared life and experiences that shaped it…

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: cafes, Chicago, USA

Come together right now

October 29, 2015 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

How can we relearn the art of working together and what kind of values and behaviour could we nurture in the collective spaces we create?

Filed Under: Books, Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: cafes, postcapitalism, San Francisco, USA

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

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

Steeped in coffee’s heritage

November 14, 2014 by Julie Tomlin

In a cafe which has a history of serving tea and coffee since 1837, it was interesting that a game developed that was all about recognising literary icons of the past 100 years

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: cafes

Exploring cafe culture

October 24, 2014 by Julie Tomlin Leave a Comment

A friend’s visit and her need to shop her way around London (it’s her job) inspired me to check out some central London cafes this week…

Filed Under: Cafe culture, Notes Tagged With: cafes, politics, working

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