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Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
We have grey weather and forecast of three days worth of rainfall. I woke up and it wasn’t raining yet so, I quickly nipped out for my days affairs with the photo assignment for Photo 101 at the back of my mind.
I got some reward for my venture. Now it has started sprinkling a little bit.
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 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.
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© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Our Thinkers Thoughts came in from:
Giggles & Tales prayers from the heart shows us that the only way is really to put those difficulties into prayers.
Dollops of heedful ramblings simple message is age old and yet has never gone out of fashion.
Annette’s message gives me lot’s of hope for indeed, you are never too old to dream a new dream.
Friends on my mind can I count on you or are you there just when it’s all beautiful?
Honest me I fell in love with this. Wish I could find one for my house.
Deb’s words of wisdom are little nuggets that speaks volumes.
Parenting with purpose Seye’s colourful messages always grabs my attention.
Thank you to all the contributors. May these words take roots in our lives and may our harvest be bountiful 🙂
‘So, when will you share those nuggets of wisdom of yours?’
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Ogle these one’s and send in your links.
Thank you all.
Kind regards.
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Today’s featured blogs are:
Sunday giggles From Stella. It’s nothing but the truth.
Upward Spiral Introducing Michelle, she is a newbie in our midst. Please show some welcome and love 🙂
Meet Aunt Delma from Oneta I bet you had one feisty and beautiful lady in your life like Aunt Delma.
Lidija’s kitchen step into Lidija’s abode for yummy offerings that will whet your appetite.
Mandibelle is one of my favourite persons in this place. Need I say much? She is a very supportive friend and a brilliant writer too.
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.
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Inaction builds nothing, ever!
Even if it seems the safe route to take at the beginning, it ends up being the route to nowhere.
The truth is that in taking a bold step, making mistakes along the way helps us to combat fear and builds our confidence, while inaction to step out fosters the terror and fear that grips our minds and paralyzes our mind and eventually erodes any confidence or zest that we may have had.
There are many routes that leads up the mountain top and we must take one to climb it. We cannot stay at the foot of the hill and dream about the view from up.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Eddy’s eyes strayed to the glittering guitar which hung behind the counter of the bar as he dusted.
Since he started working for Mrs. Hilley, he had wondered about it.
His eyes gleamed as he looked at it and the flaming guitar glowed brighter under his gaze.
He noticed that she touched it ever so often, dusted it with reverence and hung it back.
He had no idea what the story behind it was, but he couldn’t ask. There were rumours however, on one really knew the truth.
Since he was alone, he decided to play just a little bit. He hoped to own one some day soon.
Lost in the music the guitar’s flaming strings came alive and he failed to hear the door swing open.
Mrs. Hilley listened, tears ran down her face as he played haunting tunes.
Startled to find her watching him he hurried to hang it back but, she set two glasses of apple cider, sat him down to tell him the story of the flaming guitar.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
In response to the FFAW photo prompt above from Pixabay.com and Priceless Joy for this enchanting story platform
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Today’s featured blogs are:
Sunday giggles From Stella. It’s nothing but the truth.
Upward Spiral Introducing Michelle, she is a newbie in our midst. Please show some welcome and love 🙂
Meet Aunt Delma from Oneta I bet you had one feisty and beautiful lady in your life like Aunt Delma.
Lidija’s kitchen step into Lidija’s abode for yummy offerings that will whet your appetite.
Mandibelle is one of my favourite persons in this place. Need I say much? She is a very supportive friend and a brilliant writer too.
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
There’s beauty in the ordinary things that surround us.
I get to see all sorts of random stuff when walking.
According to my husband, he says that I take my walks with a peculiar gleam in my eyes as if I am a blood hound on the trail of something.
I am still trying to figure out if I should laugh at his comment or glower at him. I guess it will depend on my mood and PMS 😉
I wonder how the person/s ate the fish on this trail? I think they were two people and they ate the head too!
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Home lies in the beat of my heart.
Home lies in your loving arms
Home is wherever you are
Though I wander seas afar
You’ll always be on my mind.
In my days spent on Earth, my journey through life has taken me many times in so many directions, away from the shores of bricks and mortar that we called home.
From the Eastern part of my country in my childhood days, to the Western part as a young adult, I set up home in many places, but my heart lay in my parents abode.
That was the way it was until I got married and my heart expanded to accommodate some more.
In my years of matrimony, we have perambulated quite a bit. We have moved across countries and continents; from Africa to North America to Middle East and who knows where next.
In these years, I have consistently learnt to shed myself of material knick-knacks that may not make the cut during any move.
I appreciate creature comforts like other human, my cosy bed, the living room, kitchen and dining, but over these years of sojourning, I have learnt in truth, that bricks and mortar may make a house, but home are those who lie in it.
Be it a tent under the stars
Be it a caravan on the plains
Be it a mansion in a beautiful city
My home surely lies with you.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Photo 101
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil has changed to:
Look at the evil with eyes wide open and if possible with magnifying lens tied to a binoculars.
Capture the data of the evil with your high definition zoom cameras.
Listen to all contorted/distorted variations of the tasty morsel of evil with big pitcher ears and headphones.
Then go ahead and shout it through every social media forum available, Telephone, Email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc and try to break the internet by making it go viral to gain all the likes available and hopefully, the highest bidder for your captured evil will come knocking at the door with a fat cheque.
You can check Leannenz for past Monday memes.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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