The Foreign Wife – Friday Fiction in Five Sentences.

October 7, 2016October 7, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha11 Comments

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Mrs. Kamanu could barely hide her disappointment and displeasure.

Jude’s return to the village after many years of sojourn in Holland with an ‘oyinbo‘ wife was least expected and a foreign wife was not the daughter-in-law that she had prayed for, for her son.

Her eyes were set on Okeofia’s first daughter Nkemdilim whom she had been calling ‘my wife’ for quite a while now.

A hard working, pretty and a well-mannered girl whose ample child-bearing hips would give her the grandchildren that she wanted.

Seated on her three-legged kitchen stool, with lips pursed like someone who had sucked on an unripe star fruit, she wondered how she would communicate with a daughter-in-law whose nasal language was beyond her comprehension.

Quick glossary:

Oyinbo – White

Okeofia – An Igbo name which means Big Forest.

Nkemdilim – An Igbo name which means ‘May my own stay with me.’

A Click A Day

Polaroid – A Click A Day

October 7, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha15 Comments

Times keep changing and so does technology. I saw this dummy replica of an old camera and remembered the old polaroid cameras my parents used back in the days to capture our startled, say cheese expressions for the family album.

We called them ‘wait and take,’ photos. It was fascinating as a child to watch the photo slide out mere minutes after it was taken. Now, digital rules the World.

Featured Blogs

Featured Posts 135 – Share Your Post Links.

October 7, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha1 Comment

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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’

Today’s featured blogs posts are:

True Power Well articulated post with points that I think a lot of today’s women need to focus on.

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Weather Moving locations on a rainy day. God’s speed to Washington Roo 🙂

Water is Life Robert writes a beautiful, thought-provoking yet soothing post with a flavour of exotic. I enjoyed reading this and learning a few things.

Adolf Hitler – A tale of rejection I have read stories of Hitler and how he was maltreated as a child, but that doesn’t cut it for me. There are many others who have had worse on their plates in life and they didn’t become horrific personalities, their adversities made them more empathetic. Below is my comment to this post.

I believe that one chooses to be hateful. Yes, his upbringing may have been sad and pitiful, there are those who have had worse and didn’t turn into living monsters. There’s really no excuse for the monstrosity and horrible acts that this man perpetrated on humanity.

Can’t Stand The Pledge What are your thoughts on the pledge? Do you take a knee or stand? What are your thoughts on this interesting perspective?

Do step in and show some love.

‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’

Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.

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.

Echos Of My Neighbourhood

Random Snaps of My Neighbourhood.

October 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha21 Comments

On Thursdays, I share pictures about ‘Echos of my Neighbourhood.

I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple and you can find out more about it through this link.

It’s been a breezy busy week filled with this and that, that I found myself taking most of my photos either early in the morning or in the evening after the day’s runaround.

Here are several snips and snaps of my neighbourhood caught within the week.

Lady Lee offers you something to smile about.

The light casts a lovely appearance at night.

The Daily Post

Imagine The Barrenness…

October 6, 2016October 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha2 Comments

Imagine the World without trees.

A stark desert without the beauty of its greenery.

Hard to think of such barrenness;

For that means, there’ll be no life.

So, when you see a tree hugger,

don’t be in a haste to laugh.

♣

In my place, when we say ‘may the forest be with you,’ it’s a prayer for your abundance of life, fertility and growth.

Trees, The Daily Post

Musings · Poetry/Poems

My Bathroom Genie

October 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha11 Comments

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My bathroom muse always appears like a genie with the bulb

under the lavish stream of water and soapsuds.

Brilliant writing tips pop into my head

in a perfect plot, sequence and all.

Yet, once I sit at the desk

in an attempt to capture it all,

the fickle muse fizzles away

just like those soap bubbles.

Short of repeating the thoughts

mindlessly like a mantra in my head,

I guess I must start taking the notepad

into the shower as well 😉

Gratitude

Moments Like This…. Personal

October 5, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha43 Comments

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I must be doing something right somewhere, though many times I question my own authority as a mother and call myself out for messing up now and again, but when you get a letter from your child’s school authority inviting you to an investiture ceremony because he has been chosen to be the school’s Head Boy, your heart can only swell in pleasure and gratitude.

Believe me, when I say that in a community where the percentage of black children is negligible, nothing prepared my mind to think that my child would be selected. It’s a new precedent for the school to have a black child as their head boy and moments like this make me thankful and a proud mother.

I don’t have all the material wealth to give to these young blessings who adorn my life, all that I have to give is my love, teaching them basic human values and hoping to do my best in raising children who will be worthy ambassadors of the humanity that they belong in.

Moments like this make me thankful for these things that bring warmth, hope, and rays of sunshine into my life.

If you wish to participate in a gratitude challenge, there are several gratitude/thankful platforms in the blogosphere that you can tune into and get your ithankful going on. I can’t express in words the enormity of Joy and fulfilment that comes from having a heart of gratitude. Please check out Maria’s blog,Colline’s blog and Bernadette’s for thankful/gratitude challenges.