a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
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In as much as it can be fun to reminisce and recall those lovely times or not so lovely times that we had as teenagers and even as toddlers, I think the year is still a bit young for me to be living in the doldrums of the past and feeling wistful over things that are bygone.![1452617116684[1]](https://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/14526171166841.jpg)
Ask me again, on a day that I have just finished listening to a heart tugging music or read something sappy, or better still, hang around till the next holidays and toss the question right back at me, then, I just might be in the mood for poignant reflections that would have you pulling out your tissue box.
Now as it is, my brain cells are in the front drive and looking totally forward to newer forays and exploits. Today, this moment, now, is my present, so let’s focus on that.
Turn the next chapter please.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The Daily Post Prompt If I could Turn Back Time.
If you could return to the past to relive a part of your life, either to experience the wonderful bits again, or to do something over, which part of you life would you return to? Why?
A fascination of the Stars it held,
Purported to pleasure he heard,
Hope he keeps away from the Meth.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
PLEASE NOTE! ‘The usage of crystal methamphetamine is dangerous.’
This is my first time participating in ‘Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge‘ with the prompt words, ‘crystal’ and ‘hope.’
Every Tuesday, I share snippets of thoughts that I call ‘My Thinking Corner.’
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple.
Each Tuesday, share your very short snippets of positive, inspiring, motivating, health, spiritual, writing advice, clips, posts etc, that can serve as a prop to motivate others and simply add my link to your post.
I call it my thinking corner because, I actually take out a bit of time just to think through things, encapsulate my thoughts as much as possible and detoxify my mind.
It might work for you in a different way, but the idea is to get the positive thoughts flowing.
Every last Tuesday of the month, I will publish a post with the links of all those who participated through the month and their thoughts.
I hope to see you join. Best regards.
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© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
I am not crazy and I am not exaggerating.
Sometimes, my muse runs off into the wild winds not to be found.
But that sometimes is very, very rare.
As a matter of fact, I am wishing that the muse would run off for some days and let me have peace.
How do you quieten the thousand voices of characters in your head, with ideas racing from pillar to post and vying for your attention.
A lot of times my body is tired but my brain remains supercharged and the voices just won’t keep quiet.
It’s totally driving me mad.
Even when I say that I am not going to think. I STILL THINK.
Hey! Is anybody out there? I need good tips of how to kill a muse and get some sleep.
What do you do to keep the voices in your head shut? Short of hitting my head with a sledgehammer!
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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The eclectic taste that I have in things stretches to the domain of music as well and I have my late dad to thank for nurturing my mind with the plethora of sounds of music from different artists that floated through our home and seeped into my young veins.
I like music from all the artists enumerated below including the legend, David Bowie, may he rest in peace.
However, my young heart was completely enamoured by the Jackson 5’s and a little later just Michael Jackson. Me and my siblings danced to their beats and attempted all manners of moves that I cannot dare try now, for want of not breaking my legs.
As I got older, Boyz II Men became a teenage crush, though MJ still retained a special place.
Though there is an artist whose songs haunt my life a lot of times and that is the legendary Mama Africa ‘Miriam Makeba.’ There is something in some of her renditions that simply has me curling up and in bitter-sweet tears.
Till today, dancing ‘just because‘ still remains one of my biggest ways of relaxing, of laughing and I am known to lapse into singing – more like warbling tunes, when I am upset too.
It has a way of calming me down and I think my husband recognizes this as well. Once he annoys me and I start singing, he knows that I am deeply pained and my way of riding through it, is either to write it out, sing away the pain or dance to the beats.
You cannot sing or dance and remain angry because Music is simply laughter for the Soul as long as it is not filled with hate and abusive words.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The Daily Post prompt Teen Age Idol.
Who did you idolize as a teenager? Did you go crazy for the Beatles? Ga-ga over Duran Duran? In love with Justin Bieber? Did you think Elvis was the livin’ end?
This changing Gif of David Bowie’s profile that I saw on Fictional Kevin‘s blog just caught my eye’s. Bowie was one brilliant talent. He will surely be missed but his legacy has been printed on the sands of time.
You never know that those little drops of words you leave here and there really add up to something. Rosema’s words plastered a lovely smile on my face and warmed by heart. I love this community 🙂 *By the way, does this mean I am a talkative 😉
More than the number of followers, more than the number of views, it is the words from my co-bloggers that encourage me the most. – rosemawrites
The first week of 2016 was over but my gratefulness for the past year has not ended yet.
Today, for my 50 Days of Gratefulness’ Day 35,36 and 37, let me make a simple thank you note for the five lovely ladies who have never ran out of kind words for me last year.
According to the awesome WordPress’ annual report, here are A Reading Writer’s top commenters!
(drumrolls…)
Yes! Aren’t they are all lovely! 😀 If you have no idea who they are, let me tell you who are they and how they surely made my year extra-awesome! ❤
1. Jacqueline(but for me she’s Jacq), is the lovely ‘face behind acookingpotandtwistedtales. She “is a passionate Nigerian woman, a gregarious and an…
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