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Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
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. You can check this link for more details.
Our minds are completely connected and serve as a guide to how we shape and reshape our lives and even our bodies to further achieve greater potentials. You can either spend your time griping and begrudging everything that’s not going as it should or you could spend your time expanding your thoughts, thinking about worthwhile experiences.
Loving yourself, living in the moment and dwelling on happy thoughts is the quickest route you can take to create or recreate a wonderful life for yourself.
Bisi shares snippets on how you can keep growing even with your wins and Oba’s wise thoughts on intentional living is worth keeping in mind.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Ronovan gives us an interesting pair ‘reward & trial, for this week’s Haiku. Who amongst us hasn’t gone through trying moments and also experienced the elation of rewards for sticking to it till the end? That’s the story of life.
Without trials, there’s no triumph
without labour, no rewards
they go hand in hand.
Rewards gained from your labour
is the sweet success that follows
your tedious trials and tribulations.
Don’t give up yet!
For at the end of each trial
comes a just reward.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Image credit – Found on Pinterest
I honestly don’t have the right words to describe my reaction when I took a long walk yesterday and came across this Caterpillar with the man fast asleep under it. Look at the left side of the photo. Under the heavy artillery is a mound of a human being.
I was STARTLED! First off, I was ALARMED. I thought he was dead! Then I stooped low and heard the grunts and snoring. I felt relief, sad and worried all at the same time. What if he inhaled sand and choked? Did anyone know that he’s under this heavy duty machine?
I looked around and saw another fellow sitting with a far away look in his eyes’ – unfortunately, he didn’t understand one word of English, but my pointing and gesticulating might have come across to him – or maybe he ended up thinking that I’m one crazy black woman.
Are you sitting on your time or are you moving with it? Which is better; to sit on it or to move with it? Either ways, time still passes by.
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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’
Today’s featured blogs posts are:
Ah October There’s a lot to love about this month of October. You might need a reminder.
I pledge allegiance – sort of. Where does your loyalty lie? What are your thoughts on the pledge of allegiance?
Artist Mikael Avatar Introducing a new blog that I’m getting to you. Check it out.
You deserve to be happy – Things emotionally stable people don’t do A well-articulated good read. I think we all need to remind ourselves of some of the points made here.
DIY – Checkerboard table This is so SMART and COOL. Maybe that old table or side stool of yours still has some life in it. Worth the time I must say.
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Mundane Monday Challenge is created to find beauty in almost everything.
The challenge is simple. Find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.
Is it my eyes or does this floor mop look like a funny person with a mask and shaggy hair?
The wealth that you receive in life is that which society entrusts you with and can only come from friends. Each day, I’m thankful for discovering the beauty of blogging, it not only gave a voice to speak but gives me friends like Brigid whose succinct words come enriched with soothing wisdom.
Thank you, Brigid, for your support and for letting us get to know you some more.
Greetings from County Donegal in the north-west corner of Ireland. My name is Brigid and I moved here in 1999 after living in Scotland for 44 years. I have had an “interesting” career path – I originally wanted to be a doctor but God had other plans!
Instead, I entered the world of Life Assurance working in the Actuarial and Life Underwriting departments before following my heart into a 20-year career in Natural Medicines. I was a bit of a pioneer back then and fell into teaching which I really loved; I eventually set up a two-year training in healing skills and I also opened a healing centre and shop.
After the death of my father and the breakup of my marriage, I moved to Donegal – the home of my ancestors.
I retrained in Organic Horticulture in 2006 after a two-year hiatus due to a mystery illness which was eventually diagnosed as Fibromyalgia and autoimmune disease. I taught Organic Horticulture in schools until recently.
I started my blog as a social media platform for my book of the same name – “Watching the Daisies – Life Lessons on the Importance of Slow.” I write to inspire others on their self-healing journey, particularly those who have a long-term illness. Slowing down has been one of my major Life Lessons – I used to be incredibly busy!
I am very proactive and I have shared many of my own self-healing tips in my posts such as:
https://watchingthedaisies.com/2016/08/31/walking-the-wild-atlantic-way/
I initially wrote posts on flower essences, Natural Medicines, and my personal healing journey but my blog is constantly evolving with new posts:
“Thought for Today” and “Small Steps Up Mountains” which includes links to other inspiring posts illustrating a SLOW route through life’s challenges. I also link into Bernadette of www.haddonmusings.com weekly post on gratitude “52 Weeks of Thankfulness.” I have kept a daily gratitude diary since the onset of my illness.
I am overwhelmed by the generosity of other bloggers and the incredibly supportive community on WordPress.
I find it easy to motivate myself to write my posts. In fact, I look forward to creating them and to reading comments and likes. I love to read other blogger’s posts and I am continually inspired by their wealth of creativity and ENORMOUS support .
I began my blog back in February while doing an online blogging course. My posts took me a long time to write as I was working part time and my energy was low. In April, I lost a dear friend – Danny and I wrote a post in his memory: For Whom The Bell Tolls
I lost a dear, dear friend on Thursday. His name was Danny; he played the guitar for our church choir and he helped me adjust to a new role, as the newest choir … For Whom The Bell Tolls
The shock of Danny’s death floored me and it was not until I had a mini break in Belfast to see Bryan Adams that I was able to pick myself up and post on a more regular basis.
I first saw Bryan Adams in Edinburgh on 20th February 1984, supporting Tina Turner on her “Private Dancer” Tour. On Wednesday last, I watched Bryan play live for the third time, in Belfast.
Definitely. Blogging flexes your creative writing skills and is a huge platform for positive change.
I like to walk regularly, weather permitting! I also love to spend time in my garden “pottering,” planting and admiring nature’s gifts. I belong to a Women’s Shed that meets weekly, to learn crafting, photography, make up… and share in a bit of FUN. I continue to enJOY singing in our church choir. My favourite hymn is “Holy Night.”
I meditate morning and evening, I pray daily; I take things gently and listen to my body if it needs to rest.
I am really excited about promoting my book which is on target to be published in e-format on 14th November. I am delaying publishing any hard copies until I monitor the response.
Thank you once again, Jacqueline, for this interview.
Blessings.
‘When you give a beggar a coin, you buy him a meal for the day.’ I guess this saying would have been applicable in the past. Gone are the days when a coin could fetch you something worthwhile. Now a beggar needs as many coins as he can get to buy anything to eat.
I remember my growing up days when my eyes grew round and shone like new coins or should I say kobo’s in expectation of earning a coin from running errands for a number of uncles and aunties who sent us down to the neighbourhood store to buy an item for them.
That coin represented a yummy goody-goody chewy chocolate stick or a handful of Chat bonbons.
Unfortunately, as I grow older the value in coins also drops with age – except if it’s a gold coin – but I still love the jingle of coins and I guess my love for them has translated into my growing coin collection from different parts of the World.
I don’t collect them with the expectations that they will suddenly grow in value overnight – though that’s a possibility, who knows? The value I receive is more of the emotional and intrinsic value that most keepsakes give us.
Something else that I love to collect are words, in the form of books or as my own thoughts and to think of it, if I am to receive a coin for all the words that I string together I would have a storehouse filled with bags of coins, coincidentally, as a writer our words which happen to be in abundance don’t fetch as much coin as we would like.
To be a writer is a painstaking work borne out of love for words and I guess I just have to settle with coining words that enrich my soul and possibly others’ as well. After all said and done, words are priceless and do carry a lot of weight.
I had no idea where I was going with the prompt word ‘Coin’ for SoCS, I just followed my rambling train of thought. Thank you, Linda 🙂
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
71 percent of the Earth is covered by water and every living thing thrives on water simply because WATER is LIFE.
I have seen water in many ramifications, from the abundance of the Oceans to bottled water of varieties, rainfall in the Tropics to the aridity of living in the Desert and one thing that I’ve found is that every living thing seeks out water. Unfortunately, there are places that lack this bare necessity that many take for granted, which reminds me of a well-articulated post I read earlier, written by Robert.
One of the things that I miss living in the UAE is rainfall. It’s such a rare occurrence and buying bottled water is the norm because the desert lacks a generous abundance of potable water.
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