2024.10 East of Meaning

There are still places in the world where people live a normal life. Away from the hyper-optimized capitalism of the west, where every cafe, teashop, concept book-store, or an unusual localeof any kind needs to face the same kind of economic pressures as a branch of a bank. Riga is a breath of fresh air, feels like a place out of time, on the Eastern outskirts of Europe. Somehow, a capital that…