I sat nearby and watched the stray eat morsels off the ground and lap up water from a broken pipe. I wondered who owned it, or if it’s a lone ranger with no owner.
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Dinnertime,The Daily post photo challenge.
Author: jacquelineobyikocha
A wordsmith with a vivid imagination, an eager mind and a burning desire to carve out tales. As I journey with my muse to that land of all possibilities and self discovery, I hope my personal evolution will serve as a beacon of inspiration for anyone who chooses to stop by.
How many times have I failed? Maybe 5,000 or more. I won’t give up!
No. (Number) That’s what Linda gave us for today’s Saturday stream of consciousness and I had to remind myself over a no. of times to get up and do it.
Today, I have refused to do a good number of things except lie around and whine in my head. Taking a deep breath after the days almost gone, I haul my butt out to get it done.
It’s not a deliberate attitude not to do anything, except binge on food, but some deep lethargy that seems to have pervaded my mind for the past couple of weeks and this has made everything a drudgery.
I know the symptoms for I have experienced it over thousands of times and so many times when I allow the dragon out of its lair by letting the lethargy fester it never bodes well.
Over the thousand no. of times that I have allowed it take over, it dragged me down into its lair and turns me into a dragon myself. Everything that I am doing would give way for this sniveling, annoying, depressing monster who rears its ugly head when it wills.
It’s a good thing that I always have several bowls of prepared food in the fridge and freezer, so that way, my family don’t suffer on the days that lethargy seizes my bones.
Now that I’ve written, I feel better and can’t help wonder how many times I allowed it to beat me. Can I put a figure to the no. of times it got the better of me? I doubt if I can. However today, it’s not going to get my number anymore. Enough!
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Do you play?..Every day beautiful people # 18…
‘Life is more beautiful when you play games.’ Roald Dahl
Nothing brings out the child in an adult as much as playing – Jacqueline
Midnight Motivations and Musings # 61…
Finding resolutions to issue’s requires looking at them from different perspectives.
If a mind is fixated on a thought that rejects other angles of views, chances are that such a view will be skewed as well as myopic.
The mind of a thinking man is expandable beyond our imagination and only limited by the measure of our thinking.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The Marriage…Friday’s fiction in five sentences.
It was the perfect wedding. The sun had shone just at the right proportion. The storybook garden where they shared their vows was dreamy. Everything was as it should be. Sublime.
Yet Cecilia felt some restlessness in her spirit. Helmut is a perfect match. Mother loved him very much and approved of him. Even her picky friends liked him well enough. They considered him the dashing, wealthy European.
Their marital vows felt like a constriction to her vocal chords. She shook off the inner voice and focused on the sizzle. She loves Helmut, he’s a passionate lover and even as every cell in her body screamed ‘don’t‘ she said I do.
It didn’t take a long time for her to realize that the marriage was a huge mistake.
Helmut’s perceived candour turned to blunt cruelty. His passion became an obsession. He smothered her to death.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Image credit..pixabay
Featured Posts # 35…Let me share your post links.
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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’
Today’s featured blogs are:
Family, parenting and beyond Joan’s posts bring it home and keeps it real. Please pay a visit and say hello.
The meantime How do you wait? What do you do in the meantime? I suggest you read this.
Shipwrecked adoption and PTSD POETRY, bares the soul of its writer.
Train up a child I can’t even begin to describe this article from Michelle. It’s an excellent, well-articulated piece. If I could like it more than once, I will do so severally. I enjoyed it.
Letter to God There are words that make you sigh and tear up a bit and this is my comment to this post ‘It takes courage to share vulnerable parts of us and our challenges. He will surprise you. Just keep your faith. I could feel your pain in these words.
Broken Heart How do you mend a broken heart? A beautiful and simple write filled with sound advice.
Discovery When you discover a carnage from robbers, yet they didn’t make off with the loot, what would be your conclusion? Vengeance? Retribution? Well…
Please visit their blogs and say hello. A few minutes may gain you a friendly support.
‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’
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‘We create a cohesive community when we come together.’
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Titillating Conversation…Every day beautiful people #17
‘A conversation is so much more than words: a conversation is eyes, smiles, the silences between the words.’ Annika Thor
I love real heart to heart tête à têtes. It reveals bits and pieces of the soul and creates honest moments in between- Jacqueline
Do women enjoy titillating conversations or is it just the menfolk that does?
Midnight Motivation and Musings # 60…
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It’s often interesting how we keep putting off things that our heart is set on doing as we wait for the right time to arrive.
When is the right time? How do we identify it? Will it come knocking on our door to announce it’s arrival? Will it ever arrive?
Some say it’s when they’ve got enough money set aside, some say that they are waiting for the children to grow up and there are yet many more excuses.
The whole glaring truth is that there will never be the right time except we make it happen. Excuses will always be bountiful and they cost several dozens for nothing, however, the cost of using excuses can be quite expensive.
Let’s start seeking that right time today. Today is it.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Life Is A Suitcase…
Did you know that life’s a suitcase
In which we journey through this maze?
You put the things you feel you’ll need
As you trundle along at your own speed
Good portion of love
Inside your trove
Helpings of smiles
Will go a mile
Family and friends can come along
They are always there to keep us strong
A dash of life skills is worthwhile too
A pinch of resilience without much ado
Good thoughts, positive vibes are simply a must
With good faith and in God we trust
Sometimes some run out of space
They end up with a bursting suitcase
Sometimes we over anticipate
And end up paying for excess luggage
Though life may have it’s bumpy trails
But if we pack with some essential stuff
We would enjoy it as we set sweet sail
That my friend would be good enough.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Suitcase,The Daily Post Prompt
More Miracles, Picnic and Bowling…Echoes of my neighbourhood # 14
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.
Bringing you more photos of the Miracle garden. You can check last week’s link here just in case you missed it.
I managed to fit in a picnic/barbeque before the forbidding hot weather of the Middle East rears up its head in full force as well as a bowling outing (though I am not much of a bowler) to round up our Spring break.
Now that school is back in full swing, life is no longer running on a slow lane.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Last Week Echoes took us to different neighbourhoods, hop on let’s go see and we will be glad to see some of yours 
Bangkok flower market: Lady Lee Manila gives us a peek of Bangkok market’s fresh flower power side.
Lower Manhattan Delightful photos from Manhattan. There’s something about that city that calls my name 😉
Mercury Colliding Who knew that Kat had such green thumbs *tongue in cheek* 😉
GM’s echoes Thank you, GM for joining in and sharing bits of your abode with us 🙂
Giggles and tales I love the skies and Stella shows us the gorgeous blues and vibrant sunsets as she journeys along 🙂
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.
My regards.
a cooking pot and twisted tales 