This weekend I was very privileged to receive a dear visitor from Sweden/Norway. We have known each other for almost 20 years, from the time we went to Bible college in Uppsala. We were even flatmates for a very short but crucial period. Those were the days of strong tea, long prayers, loud proclamations, early mornings, late nights and exuberant visions. As we parted, she went via Irkutsk into marriage and child bearing and raising (the result is stunning, I tell you!). I went via Albania via studies of different kind and at different universities into work and more studies...and...hm...Belgium! I am very happy fate brought us together again for a short week-end in Leuven. We have both changed a lot since we met for the last time, but I am glad we are sisters and would like to post this song as a remembrance of our intensive summer together back in 1995! Not that we sang it a lot back then, but it speaks of unity between brothers. Not a unity of opinion but of heart.
Hello world! Welcome to my frog blog. I will try to amuse you with my music and my texts. I'm Batty and you can read some about me under "Who is the frog blogger?" I have had a lovely day today with the sun shining here in Belgium! A friend and I hang out with her 2-year-old daughter in the garden and in the park on the other side of the road. I'm glad there are people with 2-year-olds around me, as I don't have any myself. And I think the little girl appreciated my company two, because she gave me two "dikke kussen" ("FAT KISSES") beyond the one prescribed by her mum! The morning, though, was spent making mending a recording of a song I wrote together with Rana, a very good friend of mine who is a gifted text-writer. I came off with the music and she wrote the lyrics and after some to's and fro's this is the result. Enjoy this ad-hoc-version. I hope to make a really good recording later this year (apart from better sound quality I'm looking forward to having more different singers and a better violing player than myself). Pls comment and say what you think about it! All feed-back is welcome! |
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