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
The stones are silent…
While all the tourists come and go, Greeks in cafes like this around the country are having conversations that will decide the outcome of the 5 July referendum
Tuning in to the reality of the Greek crisis
Perhaps the first step if we want to support the Greek people, is to at least try to pay attention to what they are saying about their situation
Finding your feet in a new landscape
Maybe it’s when we’re prepared to wobble around precariously in unfamiliar terrain that new ways of approaching old problems emerge
Up close and personal
If we were face to face with the reality of the lives of the Greek people today, would we really think what is happening is OK?
Breathing space
Sitting outside The Black Lab in Clapham, enjoying a cup of coffee on a sunny day, it seems that loss has left me entirely out of sync with the rest of the world
The language of hope
The phone call asking me to get involved in the ‘newspaper’ called 28 Days helped lift my gloomy mood, and working on the project has meant a lot to me in the last few months…
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