Farewell Moya - Thank you for your music, voice, presence - rest in peace

 

On her own funeral - songs from her past years..

Lots of Irish classics

Lots of Gaelic

Perfect Time..

Sober - small - no class acts - just memories - remembrances - and the music.

xx

Keiko

The Voice of Ireland is no longer amongst us..

 

Yesterday, the dreadfull news of Moya Brennans passing has shooked my day, my world.. 

I read the news on the facebook page of ENYA (of all people) she died surrounded by her family in Ireland. I'm still a bit shocked, and sad.. It's like loosing a relative, that's the feeling right now..

I was thinking about her quite a lot, cos I love listening to her harp songs and inspiring A. on her very own harp. I was really hopefull she would come back on a tour to Belgium/the Netherlands.. Too bad.. Now it's like some part of me (my early years when as a teen) had literally died with her.. No more warm feelings about concerts en meeting up afters.. it's only a memory away. 

The service will be on friday and even broadcasted online. I would love to see it too. Too pay some kind of respect online for this gorgous, beautiful woman. Who learned me to love harp, Irish Gaelic and in the end even Ireland.. I met her a couple of times in the 00'.. And everytime she was so kind, polite, interested, engaged, so, so so so talented.. actually words cannot describe everything about her... Even spotted me in the crowd (on the first row - next to the ultimate fan back in the day) 

She will be missed, luckely she will be remembered forever, not only by her fantastic repertoire of music, (as well solo as her Clannad years or the many many collaborations with various kinds of people)  her incredible and never-ending (musical) talent or being member of the most wellknown family of Ireland.. but for her kind, beautiful soul and ever - engaging self. 

Seeing everyone for who he/she really is. 

Thank You for the music Moya Brennan. Thank you. 

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/04/14/clannad-zangeres-moya-brennan-ierland-folk-harp-overleden/

It's yo birthday!

 Fricking 21 years old!!!

whuuuuut!?

Congraaats!!!

21 years full of shite (by me) for me and only me and my eyes to see.. Sometimes semi-poetic, sometimes cringe, sometimes creepy but sometimes just a little heartfelt..

Thank you for keeping the peace, a place to vent when everything seems to be falling apart. And these days its looking worse by the minute.. 

xxmemememememe me.

Dang it! Another one bites the dust!

 Hello sweet blog..

It looks like a bad year for 90's sitcoms stars.. so many deaths suddenly.. Just recently Eric Dane (mc Steamy on Grey's anatomy) left the earthly realms due to ALS, leaving behind 2 teenager daughters after just one year of knowing about this horrible disease.. his health declined badly so fast.. i'ts sad he died at 53. 

He was also known for his work on Charmed as love interest to Phoebe.. that's the second one after Julian McMahon last year, who died of cancer. How sad all..

Rest in peace !

So VERY ironically he died day to day 20 years since his first appearance on Grey's! Its like the universe is telling us something again.

xxKeiko

Fabulous february...

 Hiyo!! Dear Blog.. And a  happy new year to you too.. 

Sorry, the deadline of wishing best wishes is actually officially over, but still.. 

I'm actually counting down to your birthday the end of February! 

What news?

- Not much - still having a marriage - still having only 2 kids (forever) :) (thankyouverymuch)

- Lovely partys for the newyear/Christmas (!) with the fam..

- Still aching for a new job and surfing the net everyday.

- been traumatized and scarred forever by my job, but still acting like a grownup and trying to forget everything that happend at school.. (will never recover from that I presume) so thats way i'm actively jobhunting, cos, enough is enough.

just the usual... I assume..

ohyeah.. 

- some of the weirdest shit being thrown my way, like the universe IS telling me SOMETHING i don't get it!!!!!

It all started last week when thinking about something about school, the afterschoolcare. Sometime ago I worked at a Afterschoolcare in Zulte/Olsene and Machelen. I wanted something to figure out about this operation, why it's so good and why Gavere didn't have this too.. I wanted to ask my principal about it, so I went to look up his former school for the same information about afterschooldaycare.. It turns out there was this one girl I went to school with in the 90's that was principal at that school 

NOW. OK wow, mind blown.. I mentioned this to the principal .. haha.. coincidence (I think not)

Then, second .. just yesterday I got my invitation for the Erasmus project, when I got to visit the Netherlands.. and who is on that mailing list...???? yes.. the freaking same person!!!!!!!!!! She will be coming too on the erasmus project.. OF allll the persons of alllll the places.. Coincidence? (That's quite debitical)

Then third... just TODAY... the speaker of this evenings thingamajig mentiones casually that his small kids go to a school AT JUST THE SAME FREAKING SPOT!!! And whadayaknow. AKA. the SAME PERSON..

WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE NETHERLANDS THIS APRIL???? 

I have no idea, but it sounds terrifying.. It even looked like... something KARMA would pull off? No? For me? Or for her? I dunno.. but i'm quite scared.

I do remember her as a very fine friend in elementary, but when in highschool, we were never close again, I think because of the 'other directions'.. (I went to BSO - more or less more for proffesionol directions like - hairdresser, chef or childcare worker) and she went to something other .. Or perhaps there was something I did or said? I'm actually very bad at making and keeping friends, so that could be very real thing.

but in the end we both became kindergartenteachers... she's a principal, i'm a kindergartenteacher in a rut.

Even Karma could not be going this hard? I DUNNO. It freaks me out.

So.. to end that note.. I'm OUTTA HERE

Listen to this gem I recently discovered by 't hof van Commerce: 'Ik ben hier weg..' (I'm out of here)

Again.. with the samples, from a sample, from another sample.. are there any original tunes nowadays?

But hey.. it's a good sample. "Ben Ier Weg” is de eerste single die het Hof uitbracht die op hun nieuwe ep, Á La Belgique, zal staan. “Ben Ier Weg” is gebaseerd op   van Jo Lemaire, een lied dat voor Kowlier en Buyse pure nostalgie is." (but also.. 
and YAS.. that Western - Flemish Dialect.. quite alright.

But how badly I want to sing this every day sometimes... 

ORIGINAL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAJdafk1Y8 (Serge Gainsbourg 1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_H6uvjOZk (Jo Lemaire et Flouze 1981)

And now this one from 'thof van Commerce'.. it's a zinger.

And to top it of in the car riding home, contemplating things.. asking myself WHY I have the feeling of being stuck.. even imprisoned in my life/work... (yes.. it was a hard day with lots of stages, tired toddlers, dances and grandparents and to top it of with a MEETING with 100 persons and loud talking speakers.)

 I heard this one..

Sweet about me, nothing sweet about me, yeah
Sweet about me, nothing sweet about me, yeah
Sweet about me, nothing sweet about me, yeah
Sweet about me, nothing sweet about me, yeah

(by Gabriella Cilmi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvuyYj5ROmk)

Yes.. its the truth.. there IS nothing sweet about me... i'm actually quite BITTER.

No pun intented!

XX Keiko

Sumthin happenin on the 6th of October? I dunno?

 

As we're rounding up this year of 2025, i'm allready looking up to 2026!

As I'm getting messages (!) from beyond..

Yes.. my latest dream consisted of this date: 6th of october, and the fact my brother has something to do with it.. having a child, a girl with the name Frances..

How spooky that is, it's really quite remarkable, just dreaming about it.. 

After a quick search a couple of things actually happend in the past on the 6th of October

6oktoberWIKI - but nothing in my family.

But nonetheless it could be a date that resemblance something of the future!? Maybe my brother will make me an aunt? Who knows..

But specific, the name Frances? What about that?! Will be putting it on my agenda for the future, to remind me of this weirdly day.. Will catch up on that.

You know? I actually googled Frances AND the 6th of October. I actually got an interesting hit!

Oh wel.. will be counting down! =)

Happy new year!

About Mary - Frances:... 

Also: sint francis (Fransiscus) his name day is on the 4th of October! (because that's world-animal day!)

Saint Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus

• Life: Born Anna Maria Rosa Gallo in Naples in 1715, she joined the Third Order of St. Francis at age 16 after defying an arranged marriage to a cruel man. She took the name Mary Frances, inspired by the devotion of the Virgin Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to Jesus on the Cross.
• Mystical Experiences: She was known for her intense meditation on Christ's Passion, during which she experienced daily weeping and eventually received the stigmata and other mystical sufferings.
• Death and Legacy: She died on October 6, 1791, as she had prayed to be taken before the tragic events of the French Revolution, which she had prophesied. She was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized as a saint in 1867 by Pope Pius IX. 

Books that marked my youth..

So, once upon a time I commited to reading every day in this big book about 366 days. 

The stories (more or less just one page - a whole story) depicts the life of American squirrels and their friends =)

Copyright: MCMLXXXV - first published in 1985 - translated in 86. This book is just 40 years old!! 

Dutch translate: R. Vooren.

Authur: Linda Hayward.  (More about the author)

Illustrations: Amye Rosenberg.

Published by Deltas: Aartselaar/Harderwijk.

It starts on the 25th of December: we meet the family squirel: Not the european tree-to-tree squirrel, but the American Ground squirrel! That looks like this.. 

Maybe coincidence or not, but we once owned a ground squirrel! It lived in a cage in our livingroom at the old appertment in Deinze.. It lived for about 3 years (or 2 years) it escaped quite often (and we had a looooooad of shit (furnture!) and we managed to capture it every time. It died when in hibernation, he just never woke up again. I can't remember when this was.. Must have been somewhere between 2000 till 2004.

So the family squirrel:

Zip (the brother)

Mother Squirrel

Kibby (sister)

Father Squirrel

Buffy the squirrel (tree)

Willy raccoon.

Barend Beaver

Oehoe Owl

It ends on 25th of december!

I was so in love with the black and white pictures of the animals :) and was so invested in their little lives of every day!

Don't know yet if I can toss the book away.. after all this time, it kinda owns that place in my bookcase..

xx

Sara

Ohyeah.. the pages of the book up above are actually the most meaningfull to me! It's the birthdays of me,  my kids, my man and my brother ;)

I kinda read it a lot, it stayed under my bed, it was there always.. 

When I was in my first house, (when my parens were still together) the house, a desperate fix-an-upper who was never treated like that, so it remained a house in bad shape for the many years I lived there.

I have many many memories of my room, my window (1 layer glass) that looked out the garden. The birds (sparrows) who would wake me up with their chirps of a nest nearby) 

the old petroleum heater in the hallway.. the very steep stairs, where my brother got 2 scars from falling down... ... the hours I played with my barbies. The little trinkets I collected (from horses to ballet stuff) the little ballet figurines my daughter had now.. the white desk I had for studying and when the first computer first set foot to the house.. (must have been somewhere in 1996-1997) it was only good for playing a couple of stuff (mentioned on the blogpost about nostalgia day at my brothers place) .. playing with lots of disks.. those were the days: 

where I played CARMEN SANDIEGO (in French) on the commodore 64. The software was allready 10 years old by then. Or alley cat, or nitrogen or all those other things..

oh dear, thank god no children were harmed at my house from the stairs! Yes, maybe the odd falling on their behinds, but never on their head!

I remember T took a fall on a radiator pipe on his head. (at the back) when he was about 4 or 5.. 

I remember A took a fall when playing on her new and big bed and fell on her back - with the head on the head board.. she even played like nothing happend.. when she was about 2..

I remember T making jumps onto something at the EFTELING.. so we rode back to a Belgian hospital (that was about 3 years ago) 

ah wel.. little kids, little problems.. big kids.. you know.. 

My father remained living in the house, only a few years ago he and his new wife purchased another house, about 10 houses down.. Now he has a fishpond and a nice modern house. Good for him and his family. My mother just owns a caravan.. (but formarly she had 2) What's wrong with this sentence?