Month: April 2016

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FEMINIST FRIDAY – Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

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So here’s Bernadette’s diversity scoop about me below.
I get a warm feeling from the opportunity that she accorded me and would appreciate your time to read it a bit.
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Please leave some comments on her blog and I am fishing for compliments 😄
My lady Bernadette, you are awesome.

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CELEBRATE DIVERSITY

As a continuation of celebrating diversity in April, I would like to introduce you to my friend, Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha.  One of the wonders of blogging is that it has expanded my vistas and allowed me to meet such interesting and culturally diverse people from all over the world.  Jacqueline is a fellow blogger who is originally from Nigeria.  Her blog is A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales.  She uses this platform to support fellow bloggers and to raise awareness of the many  ongoing cultural inequalities and problems in the world.  Here is Jacqueline’s story in her own words:

I like to describe myself as a Jacqueline of all trade and a mistress of nothing. Everything is work-in-progress in my life, including me. Nothing is finished for, there’s always room for more improvement.

If all is finished, then that means that I am done on this side of…

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Humor - Bellyful of laughter · Photographs · Poetry/Poems · The Daily Post

The Black Cat and I….

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As I walked I met a black cat

Sitting beside the trash can

Black cat and I

Stared each other in the eye.

His were vivid green

Mine as it’s always been

He meowed a bit

And he moved to my feet.

He looked mighty harmless

His velvety fur was spotless

And since he was nameless

I called him cuteness.

He couldn’t cast any spell

As far as I could tell

It must be an old wives tale

A superstitious belief gone stale.

To paint a poor kitty black

Not cutting it any slack.

I returned to pore over my mail

And indulged in a tall, cold glass of ginger ale.

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Superstition, Daily Post Prompt

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Meet and Greet Weekend @ Dream Big: 4/8/16

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Creative Writing · Fiction · Short Stories

Lost In Thought…Friday Fiction In Five Sentences.

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Ted was bored, angry and tired. He hated his job, the drudgery and his boss.

Every morning, he would get all dressed up, knotted in stitches by the strictures of his tie, suit and briefcase, yet he trudged along, a pack of analgesic and pepto-bismol tucked away in his bag. He would have gone through a bit of them before the day was over.

He knew that he couldn’t continue like this in such a dull job. He had told himself this for the past ten years, yet he was too lethargic and scared to sit up and do something.

Lost in thoughts over his quandary, his movements were spare and automated as he walked down his usual route to catch the bus.

He stepped into the pedestrian crossing, just a few seconds too early. He had failed to see the flashing change of the lights and the truck that trundled down at high speed.

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Featured Posts # 30…Let me share your post links.

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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’

Today’s featured blogs are:

Universe, Unicorn, Mountains Can these dry bones live again? A trip up the Unicorn mountain following this sweet flowing mythical read will tell you.

Pangeia You know how those stories come to you as you are between the state of sleep and wakefulness and it turns out to be such delightful reads? This is one of such tales.

Randoms from Gibson city Titbits of a travel in which you meet good people and some downright sour people.

Being Lydia When you read Lydia’s About page, you get that warm feeling as though she’s your favourite neighbour or that aunt who lives in the next town, whom you love visiting her for a lovely natter and a fresh batch of cookies 🙂

Ejected I seriously ponder how Mel manages to keep all these fine details and weave such intriguing plots.

Please visit their blogs and say hello. A few minutes may gain you a friendly support.

‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’

Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.

P.S. Comments are disabled here to keep the loop tidy. Any comments or link you want to send can be added through the link in the post.

Thank you for your understanding and regards.

‘We create a cohesive community when we come together.’

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Everyday People · Quotes For You

An honest job…Everyday Beautiful People # 11

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‘The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem’  Peter Drucker

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Though he’s employed to clean, I think it’s rude for people to finish eating at a fast-food public area, get up and go their merry way, while leaving their litter behind. Meanwhile, the trash can is just behind them :/

I don’t think that it will take a minute to put these things away and to teach children to clear up after themselves. I can understand getting up and leaving used plates behind in a proper dining, fine restaurant since a waiter/waitress attends to guests and will possibly earn a tip.

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Spiking Blood Pressure!

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I opened my overflowing mailbox and my blood pressure spikes in clicking anguish!

A mad woman in my head screams and runs off into the bushes to go and hide.

She just wants to ball herself in a fetal position and protect her head from the imagined boxes of thousands of mail being emptied on it!

Arrgh! I’ve got mail and I am swimming in it!

Midnight motivation and musings · Self Help

Midnight Motivations and Musings # 53

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A quick question, have you ever taken time to ask yourself how much you’ve been robbed over the years, by the act of trying to fit in, trying to please and trying to be who you are not?

This isn’t a sustainable characteristic. It’s very exhausting and self-annihilating.

You can only be the best when you are yourself because being the second best you is not who you are.

A certified true copy can never be the original.

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THOUGHTS ON THURSDAY – SELF ACCEPTANCE

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I feel honoured by Bernadette for choosing me for her Thoughts on Thursday post which is a leading post to her Feminist Friday feature in celebration of diversity.

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Thank you, Bernadette, for making me look beautiful 🙂

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‘There’s nothing as liberating as getting to that point of knowing who you are and who you want to be. It’s only when you embrace yourself in entirety, from the frayed edges to the smooth lines, then and only then, can you aspire to be the best that you can be.’ Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

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TOMMORROW TO CONTINUE CELEBRATING DIVERSITY I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT MY FRIEND AND FELLOW BLOGGER JACQUELINE OBY-IKOCHA.

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Miracle Garden and Fun…Echoes Of My Neighbourhood #13

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On Thursday’s, I share pictures about ‘Echos of my Neighbourhood.

I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple.

Every Thursday, share a photo of bits and pieces of wherever you are at any point in time. It could be a house, backgrounds of your neighbourhood, activities and so forth and you can tag it Echos of my Neighbourhood, add my link to your post so that I will get the ping from your post.

Every other Thursday, I will publish a post with the links of all those who participated the previous week.

This is just a fun way of getting to see more of the World around us through your eyes since we cannot all be at those places, we could, at least, see them through you.

We found time during the weekend to go to the Miracle Garden where I took tons of photos. Just sharing a bit of some of them with you and will share a bit more another time.

It’s a lovely place to spend a day. Always teeming with tourists and families especially during the weekend.

There are blooming petals everywhere and the mingled floral essence of these flowers hangs delicately in the air as you have an ice-lolly and traipse around leisurely or enjoy relaxing in one of the sit-outs or swings to be found around the perimeters.

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Last Week Echoes gave us some peeks of different neighbourhoods, hop on let’s go see and we will be glad to see some of yours :-)

Cycling to Ostpark beautiful, serene piece of Munich, Germany. A good place for a day’s outing.

Thoughts and entanglements Nature’s bursts in spades of beauty. The circle of birth and death.

Like Mercury Colliding Nature has so much in store for us and teaches us through its cycle. A Spring miracle to behold.

Mammoth Norwich Castle museum and art gallery certainly holds some ginormous treasure in them.

Doggerland I didn’t know about this until I looked at Kim’s photo and read her short presentation.

Mile of daffs beautiful miles of springing daffodils.

Thank you to all Echoes’ contributors. I am learning a whole lot from this challenge as well as having fun with it.

It would lovely to have you join us. Regards