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Musings on a soufflé dish or Why Capitalism has no space for love

inezaponte — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:03:55 +0000

This Christmas holiday I plan to make a soufflé. Not just any old soufflé, but what is probably the best pudding I have ever eaten, which was made…

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Sleep like a river

inezaponte — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:22:03 +0000

“How we need another soul to cling to.” – Sylvia Plath Since my nine year old son watched a particularly scary episode of Dr Who we have started…

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Another day, another climate talk

inezaponte — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:25:42 +0000

“For sometime now I’ve been terribly worried. I wish I didn’t have to acknowledge it, but everything I have feared is happening.” Dr Sarah Perkins, Climate Scientist Another…

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Drawing circles

inezaponte — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:08:52 +0000

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are things in this world I would like to draw a circle around. Things, or more accurately experiences, that I value so much that I want a special place for them, somewhere safe where they cannot be touched by what we so quaintly refer to as ‘the market’. Experiences such as beauty, love and freedom.

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