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Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
Fate hands us many burdens.
It’s how we carry on with them
that makes or breaks us.
You make your burden light,
or you make it heavier than necessary
your fate lies with you.
©
Jacqueline
Ronovan writes weekly haiku challenge ‘fate & make.’
Please, do check out my new book ‘Unbridled,’ now available on Amazon. Your reviews will be most appreciated.
Don’t go chasing to harvest happiness from afar when you haven’t even bothered to plant and water it where you are. Jacqueline
Your happiness is always where you kept it. It’s not acquired through materialism and it’s not what happens to you.
It may be absent on some days when the going is rough, but always know that it’s there in the midst of chaos, pain, sadness, failure, success, peace and all the ups and downs of life.
We harp so much on happiness that sometimes this sells the idea that we have to be in a euphoric state, floating and gliding through life that those who don’t feel that way are left wondering if something is wrong and a cycle to buy happiness commences which only leaves the purchaser shortchanged.
Accepting that it’s okay to be just okay is a key to contentment.
Growing your happiness will never be a destination that you get to and all of a sudden everything is just as perfect as you want it, but a mindset that you build from within and know that despite every situation you will remain in charge of your state of being.
Jacqueline
Please, do check out my new book ‘Unbridled,’ now available on Amazon. Your reviews will be most appreciated.
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Today, let there be a beautiful continuation of the good things that you started. Jacqueline
Writing is turning my pain into art.
Writing has been therapy and coping mechanism to deal with things that threatened to drown me. I still surprise myself at how far I’ve come and how much healing, grace and joy that I’ve received.
I wrote the first book ‘Out of The Silent Breath,’ in doubt of my capability to do it. This second poetry book ‘Unbridled,’ is written not just for me, but for love and those who keep me sane.
Unbridled is written for souls hurting, for healing and becoming.
It is served to be well-thumbed and mulled over.
Written in free verse each poignant poetry vibrates with a life of its own.
Bold and uncensored verses that talk about societal issues of rape, domestic violence, sadness, infidelity, racial discrimination, sex, depression, loss, pain, femininity, grief, suicide, womanhood, relationships, love, resilience, courage, anger, mental health, paedophilia, child abuse, break up, conflict, loneliness, ageing, life, lust, optimism, Poverty, Race, Death, Justice, Beauty, Endurance, Faith, Dreams and Empowerment.
The author’s words epitomise the poetic impulse to capture concentrated images from experience and observing life’s moments; impassioned, ecstatic, sad, fiery, sensual; they are naked intimate expressions saying as much as they can say in few words.
She stared at the stairs and in her mind’s eye, she saw it as it was back then; hidden in the quiet corner of the park and surrounded by thick foliage. Leaning on her cane for support, in a slow, emotion-laden voice, Alice told her son a secret she had harboured for too long.
‘I’ve battled with myself whether to let you know or not, but with my diagnosis, I can’t put this off any longer.’
‘You’ve always wanted to know who your dad is and the truth is that I don’t know who he is.’
‘For many years, these stairs represented the stairs into a private hell.’
‘Thirty-two years ago, I was attacked here by two strangers and you were conceived that evening.’
‘Circumstances that led to your birth were difficult and changed my life, but once I held you in my arms, I couldn’t give you up for adoption.’
‘You’ve been such a blessing to me that a situation meant to destroy me was turned around.’
Jacqueline
Thank you, J.S. for the photo prompt and PJ for hosting.
Mundane Monday challenge is created to find beauty in almost everything.
The challenge is simple. Find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.
When a bird leaves its feather behind, what does that signify? I’ve seen several lost feathers on the foot path and wondered what it meant. Is it that the weather is too hot and these birds are undressing themselves one feather at a time to lighten the weight and keep cool?
‘PLEASE SEND IN YOUR LINKS.’
Today’s featured blogs are:
What do you keep in your backyard?
A great prompt idea to try out. I enjoyed how Pamela interlaced the mixed tape prompt with intimate insights of her life.
Who do you think you are in your dreams and imagination? Be honest and take a peek at your inner thoughts. I like this quote that I borrowed from Deborah.
Lessons for living the book that shaped my personality
A beautiful, positive post to start your day. Once I started reading I had to finish it.
Although I’m from a Hindu family, I did my primary schooling from a Christian school named St. Luke’s, in Himachal, and I’m glad that happened.
An enjoyable story. Below is my comment.
What a twist in the tale. I am glad it was just a daydream into the future. I hope she gets to move to her dream neighbourhood. Great story.
Do step in, explore these blogs and show some love.
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Thank you for your understanding and regards.
His life has become a disaster waiting to happen,
yet he just couldn’t stop himself,
he was not in a good place.
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He hated the choices that he had made
getting hooked was far easier than getting off
the results have only been disastrous.
©
Jacqueline
I would like to appreciate all my recent follows of the past few weeks. Forgive my tardiness for failing to do this earlier and for not stopping by to visit and say hello.
I am not that ill-mannered and can only offer the excuse of the deluge of emails, blog posts and duties that besiege me each day. That’s one hazard of blogging and running two blogs, but I am loving it nonetheless.
Now, a proper thank you to you and you and you. In this space, my vision is to keep things positive and warm, to engage and inspire others whenever possible and to build an interactive positive-minded community that hopefully transcends the online blogging community into our various lives.
This community is such a supportive one and in my own little way, I seek ways to create more cohesion in our midst and appreciate those around me. Asides from my regular posts, I have a series ‘featured posts’ where I share weekly posts of others and ‘author zone’ where I spotlight the published work of others.
I also offer guest posts, bloggers interview and partnership opportunities, as well as a recurrent monthly blog party for the purpose of networking and growing. I’ll also mention that I offer a few services that might interest you and you can always shoot me an email through the contact page.
Once again, you are welcome to my house in bloglandia. I look forward to furthering interactions with you and extending an early invitation to the month’s end blog party coming up on Sat/Sun 29/30th of July.
My regards,
Jacqueline
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