Featured Post # 12…Let me share your post links.

March 7, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha2 Comments

Cast your beamers this way and send some of your links.

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Friendship The term sounds simple right. This post is profound and you only have to read it to understand what I am saying. A little piece of what she said ‘I believe I have reached a place of honesty most of time when I present myself to the world. I’m not ashamed that I have PTSD, but I don’t wear a banner across my chest that announces it either.‘

Flexible but grounded I read this post from Roo word for word found lots of messages that spoke to me, tucked away here and there. Let me share just a little piece of my finding from this post – ‘Variety is good – provided it doesn’t undermine the groundwork of our purpose in life. With so many choices and distractions in our world pulling us in many different directions, routine discipline can be a…

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Midnight Musings and Motivations #26…

March 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha13 Comments

Opportunities don’t run up and hug us as we traipse down the alley of nothingness.

Opportunity has to find us doing, for it to turn up and when it does turn up, do we recognize it?

It comes in many forms and a whole lot of times, it may not come wrapped in a nice box with bows and flowers.

Do we stand in the way of our own progress with all the road blocks that we inflict on our path, waiting for an opportunity that will land in our laps while we sit on the rocking chair going back and forth and gossiping about the neighbour?

Sometimes, we have to push ourselves out of the rocking chair to get where we want to go.

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Well Here it is!

March 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha5 Comments

I have felt so tickled happy since morning when I read Judy’s post and I love to share my source of happy moments. Judy has been so supportive to me in this space and this is just a little way to say congratulations Lady Edwina. You make me feel personally proud 🙂

Edwina's Episodes

I am very thrilled and delighted to show you my beautiful, shiny new book! Chris at The Story Reading Ape has done an absolutely brilliant job of designing the perfect cover for it too. He was so helpful and accommodating to me, despite my inexperience in these matters and problems with my e-mail!

At the moment, it is available at CreateSpace, but by tomorrow, it should be available on Kindle and shortly afterward Amazon.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I had been encouraged to publish a collection of my poems, and now I have finally done it! I do love to rhyme things and this book is pretty much a compilation of some of my favourites! I have even included some of the raunchier ones to add a little extra spice!

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Love · Personal

His Big Screen…personal

March 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha45 Comments

I chuckle as I write this. I can’t think of anything else when the word screen shows up as today’s prompt.

Why would the word screen rouse a chuckle out of me?

Well it reminded me of my short, sizzling courtship with my husband nearly sixteen years ago and when we first met.

I remember the first thought that I had when I looked at his glasses.

They were as big as a Boeing 727 jet with wide screen and behind the wide screen were very beautiful eyes.

I wondered why he was wearing contact lens and wearing such big screen in the name of glasses at the same time.

It turned out that they are not contact, but my husband has hazel eyes.

For a fully black man, that is not common. It was mostly albinos that I knew that had light eyes in Africa, but as time went on, I got to learn of Africans with blue eyes.

I think it was those lovely hazel eyes of his that got me and yes, for the love of me, he got rid of the Boeing 727 and we settled for a lovely pair of Tom Ford frames.

The Daily Post prompt Screen.

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Blogging Temperament…

March 6, 2016March 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha34 Comments

A temperamental blogger who flies off the handle at the slightest provocation and gets insulting, is like a bad tempered , crazy Horse.

No one wants to take a ride on it and risk a broken neck.

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Featured Post # 12…Let me share your post links.

March 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha

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Today’s featured blogs are:

Introducing Willow to you. I am a sucker for positive and grounded words that stoke my thinking. You will reason with yourself after reading some of her post

Michelle Malone I found this post from Michelle quite provoking and in my opinion, it’s a post that we should all read ‘Wherever you may go and whatever you may do, someone is always watching, assuming, and judING.’

Sepultura I have no idea how many smiles, chuckles and oh yes that I received from visiting random ramblings.

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.’

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How do you view yours?

March 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha19 Comments

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Featured Posts 11…Let me share your post links.

March 6, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha2 Comments

a cooking pot and twisted tales

Today’s featured blogs are:

Introducing A Time To Share. A new find that makes me feel at peace 🙂

Charly Priest I still seek words to describe Charly. He is crazy. He is a dork. He makes me laugh with his silly talk. He is just Charly.

Maria Jannson Photography Sometimes, I lack words to describe how deeply affected I am by Maria’s photos. They are BREATH-TAKING!

Women building bridges. Whose life have you affected in a positive way? Do you plan to do so? I like this article on so many dimensions and then again, I have fond thoughts for the blogger behind the post. Oba is a girl after my own heart.

Aerials Melinda transports you to World’s of vivid possibilities with her writing. You can almost visualize them in your mind in techni-colour.

Please visit their blogs and say hello. A few minutes may gain…

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Blog · Inspiration - Motivation · Self Help

Midnight Motivations and Musings 26…

March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha27 Comments

Any life’s happiness that’s tied to the acquisition of material wealth as it’s major source, is in for a long haul of misery and disappointment.

The truth is that, in as much as the material goods and money around us can give that initial buzz of euphoric happiness, they fail to satisfy in the long run and the buzz wanes very fast, that the person in this cycle is in for the rough haul of the constant pursuit of the next buzz.

This is actually what leads to addiction. The perpetual search for the next high and kick.

Addiction comes in different forms, some more destructive than others, but the underlying factor that poses the problem is the addicted persons inability to find harmony within themselves, so they search for it through external factors.

If your happiness is dependent on others, then you are in for a roller-coaster of emotional instability.

It means that you are submitting your happiness to the ups and downs of someone else’s state of mind which can be rife with turbulence.

The true happiness that you seek to experience can only ever be found inside you and other people or things are just complements.

Dig deeper until you get to that root that transcends the state of happiness to the state of joy.

Joy is deeper. Where happiness is like a stream that might dry up when the sun gets very hot, joy runs like the deep ocean that flows from an unfailing source and that is The Lord.

Personal · This Is My Life

This Is Who I Am….Streams of consciousness Saturday.

March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha40 Comments

This is what it is and I have come to accept that. When I was younger, it was a bit difficult to really describe who I was or am and what I am all about.

I can get quite wrapped up in my books and in make-believe Worlds that open up for me in the pages and I find beautiful contentment from that.

Being around lots of people gives me pleasure and I would be the life of the party. Mingling, laughing, dancing and all the merry-making, yet in the background of all this, is some still brook that runs deep inside me. A reserved person looking from the outside.

This different personalities that inhabited one soul, confused me a bit in the younger years of still trying to find myself. I thought that I had to fit into a mold.

That I had to be x or y, black or white, this or that. That I had to be either an extrovert or introvert and every other label that people put out there to pen everyone else.

My mother would say that I was the most quiet child she has when we were growing up, with an acute sense of responsibility, yet at the same time, she would equally say that I am one person that would arrive and would be welcomed as many. ‘When she comes in, we say you people are welcome.’ A one woman riot squad.

In the early days, I never quite understood these things and struggled to fit into one caption or the other.

Now, I am older and wiser, I embrace the me who is a bundle of eclectic this and that and I have ceased with the defining.

I accept and love the me who rages like a wild-fire yet burns in peaceful flames.

The cool sophisticated lady with the blend of a gypsy, wild child.

I admire the me who loves colours in splashes of vivid brightness and the calmness of cool pastels. Who has a myriad taste, yet particular. A me who reads like an open book, yet with curling smokes of mystery.

This is me who loves noise and quiet, who embraces life with zest and calmness. A bundle of contradicting this and that.

No more definitions!

Today’s SOC’s prompt asking us to write about this and that had me looking around for a few minutes then I realized that I am an epitome of lots of this and that.