I like nonsense…Writers Quote Wednesday Challenge

May 4, 2016May 4, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha9 Comments

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” Dr. Seuss

If I could build a fantasy world

It would unfurl

out of the pages of my dream world

of fairies and Peter Pan

of gold dust and timeless plan

where Dragons can become house pets

with beautiful things all without debts

human existence not riddled with regrets

as we make merry and dance to melodious duets

a life of living without threats

would be a fantasy, I bet.

Fantasy, Writer’s quote Wednesday challenge prompt

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Out of the silent breath

Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha’s poems portray images that stare us right in the face. Images of love, joy, death, pain, challenges, violation, and freedom. She writes in a language that’s rich in imagery, earthy, honest, vulnerable, yet full of the promise of hope, of loving and of Grace. A collection of light and dark soulful prose.

Blog · Featured Blogs · Networking

Featured Posts 47…Let me share your post links.

May 4, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha

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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’

Today’s featured blogs are:

A scar a memory What are the memories and scars of childhood that stand out starkly in your mind? What do they tell? Will you share your story with us? Take a look at Oneta’s story.

A body at rest: When the body is tired, it’s simply tired.

All gone wrong: When a mind is broken beyond repair, it’s a ticking bomb.

A quick drive-thru to say hello can gain you a friend.

‘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.’

Below is my first Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.

When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.

Out of the silent breath

Everyday People · Love · Parenting

Painted Up…Every day beautiful people 34

May 4, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha4 Comments

“Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.” Alvin Price

He does look cutely ferocious 😉 I bet I will scare people to death if I tried this.

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When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.

Out of the silent breath

Photographs · Wordless Wednesday

Empty heads…Wordless Wednesday

May 4, 2016May 4, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha20 Comments

For complete numb skulls, they do look trendy and highly fashionable 🙂

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When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.

Out of the silent breath

Midnight motivation and musings · Self Help

Midnight Motivations and Musings 76…

May 3, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha16 Comments

When you’ve got somewhere to go, distractions will crop up and pop out from every available woodwork and if you are not mindful and focused, you’ll probably spend far too much invaluable time facing shadows that are not worthwhile.

The truth that you tell yourself in times like this is the truth that you come to believe. If you say ‘oh, I can’t go through this,’ that’s true; if you say, ‘I am going to crack this,’ that’s also your truth.

Whichever way you chose to go, into the light or in the shadows, will determine your reality.

Below is my first Poetry Book “Out of the silent breath” which is available on Amazon and Smashwords.

When you buy my book, you support me in an invaluable manner.

Out of the silent breath

The Daily Post · WordPress

Mutiny…

May 3, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha6 Comments

Let’s abandon ship said the angry crew

for he’s a stingy, shrewd master

who’s so cranky like a shrew

and fails to pay our dues.

There was a mutiny

that happened in disunity

which doesn’t bear close scrutiny

and the ship was abandoned in impunity.

Abandoned, The Daily Post Prompt

Challenges · Haiku · Humor - Bellyful of laughter

Enter The Dragon….Ronovan writes weekly haiku challenge

May 3, 2016February 12, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha13 Comments

Courtesy of Wild Daffodil’s 8-year-old granddaughter Miss E, who sent in a poem to Ron’s haiku, we get some interesting set of word prompts this week ‘dragon and invite.’ Well, let’s see who’s breathing fire 😉

With the haiku prompt of dragon invite

my mind takes me back

to Bruce Lee’s movie, enter the Dragon.

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Please don’t invite her for the party

She’s such a feisty dragon

Her flaming tongue will incinerate my guests.

Life · Musings · My Thinking Corner

Tuesday Trickles.. My Thinking Corner # 20..

May 3, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha9 Comments

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 helps give me clarity of vision and might help you too.

It might work for you in a different way, but the idea is to get the positive thoughts flowing.

Please send in your little thoughts. You never know whose life you might inspire.

Today, I will share some proverbs with you.

♦ It is when you say I have reached my destination, that you should watch your steps lest you stumble.

♦ My people say that when you wake up is your morning, which means that whenever you start to pursue your purpose is good enough. I however, say that you should desist from oversleeping and waking at night, lest you may never see any morning.

♦ The fruits of the harvest can be identified from its seed. What seed are you sowing in your life and the life of others in your circle of influence?

♦ When you dim your light, please remember that you are probably leaving some people in the dark.

♦ You can’t afford to sleep when you are riding your bicycle called life.

Today’s thoughts came in from beautiful thinkers:

Yesterday’s dreams, today’s reality Oba’s reality of dreams of yester-years is delightful. Dreams do come true when you latch on and go through the process. Are you latching on?

Sow Positive Seeds Such a beautiful quote from Dehan: When your soul is filled with positive thoughts it blooms…

Friendship what manner of friend are you? Are you a friend or foe or frenemy? It’s worth knowing…

Continue the journey Don’t tarry in the valley of despair, hold on, hold on…my dear Noififre says it so well.

Today’s Nuggets are for you, take your pick…

Leadership Do you know what you are doing? Are you a leader? What is your vision…a short thought from Modupe.

New Sweet, absolute and unshakeable truth from Rosema.

My thought for the week from life mutated…

If you find your body to be up in arms sit back, relax on your bed and quietly explore your imagination for inspiration.
If you find your mind being uncooperative, I take those ideas and bring them to life.

I hope that you find these little drops useful now and again. Do check them out and please share snippets of your thoughts with us.

Thanks and blessed be.

Uncategorized

Featured Posts # 46…Let me share your post links.

May 3, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha

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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’

Today’s featured blogs are:

A special event – Quest I don’t want to be a spoiler, but for those of us who love some fun, here’s an invitation for you, action, adrenaline, emotion packed and more. Please take a moment to visit:

Lords and ladies come; a special event
beckons you to feast your eyes on bold quests
where our fair questors, for your amusement,
risk life, limb and sanity by request.

Celebrating moms in May We’ve got to celebrate ourselves don’t we, and our mothers as well. A call for action and good reaction. This might interest you, I will be sending in a little story of ‘mother knows best’ for this occasion. You’ve got to be part of it.

Rolling Blogger Have you met my friend the rolling blogger? No? Why not? In his words let me grant you a brief introduction and bid you to go and say hey:

I am just your typical thirty-something year old male trying to become someone AWESOME in this world and make a difference. I was born with a disability called Spina Bifida. There is so much more to me, you will just have to continue to check into my blog every day, or every week to see what’s new and see what else I write. It mostly will be about my lessons in life and experiences and trying to help at least one person somewhere out there realize that they are not alone. Someone else has been there! Stay the course! Read on! View all posts by rollingblogger

‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’

Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.

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Thank you for your understanding and regards.

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

Scary · WordPress

BE CAREFUL! PLEASE, NEVER, NEVER, TOUCH THESE!!!

May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha56 Comments

I had a recent struggle with malicious attack on my blog that some of you know of and hopefully, when my load is just a little less in the next week or so, I will share the few steps that I followed and the mind-numbing number of emails between myself, google and WordPress before the situation was resolved.

However, I just received a so called email message above from Gmail and my sixth sense simply told me to verify the source, so my verification from WordPress engineers -see discussion thread below – confirms that it’s a phishing mail to harvest your details

acquelineobyikocha	Hello good morning, this is an emergency please
Mahangu	Hi there! What can I help you with?
Mahangu	🙂
jacquelineobyikocha	Hello Mahangu
jacquelineobyikocha	I just got a funny email alert telling me this
jacquelineobyikocha	Hello, We noticed the last document you downloaded, contains a Trojan Virus please follow the link https://formcrafts.com/a/19603 to enable us delete it from your E-MAIL Now. For your safety, We also recommend you format your computer/ Device to further remove any Threat of the virus. Kindest Regards, Gmail! Security Services team
Mahangu	Right. You didn’t click that link, did you?
jacquelineobyikocha	I believe I did and it wanted me to enter my details and I didn’t
Mahangu	Good thinking! That is a “phishing” email, and you can safely ignore it.
Mahangu	Gmail, or WordPress.com, or any trustworthy source will never send you a form to enter your account info.
Mahangu	They already have it, right? 🙂
jacquelineobyikocha	Wow! Can you beat that!
jacquelineobyikocha	Good to know. Thank you very much. I will educate some of my readers.
Mahangu	Great! 🙂
Mahangu	If you think you may have even half entered your account details there though, I would change your real account password.
Mahangu	Just to be safe.
jacquelineobyikocha	Thank you Mahangu. I just wanted to verify. Do have a good day/afternoon/night etc today
jacquelineobyikocha	No I didn’t enter anything but I’ll still go ahead and change my password.