In #St_Petersburg, a girl was arrested for shouting, "Glory to #Ukraine!" at a performance about the "hero of the #SVO"

The incident occurred during the play "#Absence" about a love story with a war veteran. During the play, the author's former student, #Vasilisa_Magritskaya, shouted, "Glory to #Ukraine!" She was arrested for 5 days under the article on displaying prohibited symbols .

#programmelaunch TROUBLE #13
DARK
https://www.thor.be/en/performances/dark/

DARK is a new performance by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company about artificial intelligence and artificial presence.
In this production Verdonck continues his exploration of the tension between presence and absence, real and fake, human and technology, and all this in times of AI.

Box Office 17 March
https://www.thor.be/en/festivals/trouble-13-2025/

A quotation from Minna Antrim

Separations are the tonics of Love, but beware of overdoses.

Minna Antrim (1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writer
Sweethearts and Beaux (1905)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/antrim-minna/74843/

Useless quote for 13 Feb:

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."

~ Benjamin Franklin, from "Poor Richard's Almanack", July 1736.

#absence : a state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship

- French: absence

- German: die Abwesenheit

- Italian: assenza

- Portuguese: ausência

- Spanish: ausencia

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The #holidays brought joy, connection—and sometimes, the need to step back. Looking at the balance between community and self-care, and how #absence can create a surprising value, I wonder - am I a "one-event-a-week" person?

Maybe.

But that’s okay. It’s about finding peace in priorities.

https://copingalgorithms.com/posts/community-and-scarcity

#Grippe : le #médecin Mathias Wargon regrette l' #absence "de campagne de #vaccination venant du #gouvernement" https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/politique-de-sante/grippe-le-medecin-mathias-wargon-regrette-l-absence-de-campagne-de-vaccination-venant-du-gouvernement_7005869.html#xtor=RSS-3-[lestitres]

Le chef du service des urgences et du Smur en Seine-Saint-Denis appelle les Français à se faire vacciner contre la grippe, et déplore que le gouvernement n'ait pas déployé de campagne massive de vaccination.

12 months today.
366 days of a leap year.
1 full year.
Nothing is the same.
We feel you around.
Today the lights flickered, the clouds kept on taking the shape of hearts.
We still miss your presence, and everything still
reminds us of your physical absence.
The sadness is so deep. 1 full year of memories with you not physically in them felt unbearable.
But we made it. We talk about you all day,
Everyday.

We love you.

#grief #absence #loss #motherlessdaughters #moonsirens

11 months today.
Nothing is the same.
We feel you around.
We still miss your presence, and everything still
reminds us of your physical absence.
We talk about you all day long.
The sadness is so deep.
We love you.

#grief #absence #loss #motherlessdaughters #moonsirens

I've been a bit absent these last weeks, and probably will be for a few more. Still dealing with my dad dying and all the practical stuff surrounding that. Found myself voluntarily drowning in vintage computing, which I'm sure a psychiatrist would tell me relates to my dad and me growing up in his computer workshop in the late 80s. I enjoyed it though. Both growing up there and diving back into it. It's soothing to revisit something known.

All will be good again.

10 months today.
Nothing is the same.
We feel you around.
We still miss your presence, and everything still
reminds us of your physical absence.
We talk about you all day long.
The sadness is so deep.
We love you.

#grief #absence #loss #motherlessdaughters #moonsirens

10 months today.
Nothing is the same.
We feel you around.
We still miss your presence, and everything still
reminds us of your physical absence.
We talk about you all day long.
The sadness is so deep.
We love you.

#grief #absence #loss #motherlessdaughters #moonsirens

A quotation from Ciardi, John:

«
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/ciardi-john/42522/

A quotation from Thomas a Kempis:

«
Today a man is here; tomorrow he is gone. And when he is out of sight, he is soon out of mind.

[Hodie homo est, et cras non comparet. Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/thomas-a-kempis/62731/