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This week was too hot to write a lot. Lazy days have finally arrived in Europe. Saskia and Inge's dog Elfje was the first one to be smacked to the floor.
Here she regains some strength and inspects the contents of my suitcase, wondering if I brought her anything special from Amsterdam (the answer is no).
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| (Top cop Elfje.)
It has been a very eclectic week: I went to a lesbian wedding, chatted with muslims about sugar festival and did a Free Pussy Riot photo shoot with my little sister and her girlfriend. No wonder my head feels like I just had a concussion.
So where shall I start? Perhaps with the lesbian wedding that took place at the Verbeke Foundation, a private art site in Belgium. While we were getting drunk with joy, forgetting the troubles of our own marriages and focusing on the future and all the good reasons to get married, art work surrounded us and lifted everything to a higher level. God, we have sophisticated friends. The brides looked amazing in their white dresses.
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(The happy couple, Ingrid and Anna.) |
The next day, my head still spinning from all the happiness and Champagne, I went on a long walk with my little sister. We brainstormed about the ways we could help free the three Pussy Riot members who have each been sentenced to the disproportionally long sentence of two years in jail for hooliganism. In the spirit of the week, our ideas were eclectic too. Should we ride our bikes all the way to Moscow and set up some international campaign or would something more simple like signing the Amnesty International petition suffice? Or should we just do a photo shoot ourselves and ask Madonna to put our pictures on her Facebook page? Some of the ideas didn't seem entirely realistic to us, we had regained that much clarity in our heads.
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| (Saskia in her balaclava.)
While we were straining to find some original ideas to help the Pussies, we stumbled upon some people who were celebrating sugar festival. My sister lives in Borgerhout and everyone seemed to be eating sweets that morning. We chatted with this very friendly guy who told us sugar festival is also meant to ask for forgiveness. And to eat a lot of sweets. The Antwerp dentists will have a lot of work this week.
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(The friendly guy we met outside the mosque.) |
Well, back to the girl power. Though you may disagree with Pussy Riot's methods (I personally don't), their punishment is way too harsh and the judicial power seems to have received some instructions from our friend Putin who is supposed to just exercise executive power. If you want to support Pussy Riot (I very self-righteously think you should), you can sign the Amnesty International petition here. Or you can join Saskia and me on our bike trip to Moscow of course.
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(Saskia's artwork.)
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