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

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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!

‘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

Scary · WordPress

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

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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.

Be very mindful. Secure your passwords, make sure your anti-virus is up-to-date. They are really some malicious people out there.

Be bloggy safe.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Everyday People · Photographs · Quotes For You

Absorbed…Every day beautiful people # 33

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“The pursuit of knowledge is never ending. The day you stop seeking knowledge  is the day you stop growing.” Brandon Travis Ciaccio

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When I learnt as a child that to ask meant always seek knowledge, I never stopped asking and seeking. Jacqueline

Life · Midnight motivation and musings · Self Help

Midnight Motivation and Musings # 75…

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Who are you?

This singular question is one that throws a lot of people off balance and they begin to grapple for adequate answers.

Who are you is not necessarily synonymous with ‘what do you do?’

You could do many different things career-wise over  your lifetime, yet remain who you are if those things don’t have any profound effect in changing your intrinsic characteristics.

Are you able to denude yourself by peeling away all the onion layers to find the truth of the being hidden inside?

Our passion can help us uncover who we are as it leads us on the journey of self-discovery, however, our passion can also serve as a mask for not looking deep enough to gain a better understanding of who we are.

It’s only when you know yourself, that you begin to know your purpose.

Keep pondering over this question as often as possible in the solitude of your heart until who you are, crystallizes before your eyes.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Book Review · Poetry/Poems

Wow! And a review so soon

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Like every mother who has a new baby, you spend time fretting and checking on your baby right, so two day’s after going public with my book, I take another peek in Amazon and see a shiny, brilliant review and that’s just fantastic.Out of the silent breath

I didn’t expect anything like a review that quickly and even several sales too. Wow!

I feel so tickled and appreciative of the beautiful soul who has taken the time to purchase, read and remark giving my Out of the silent breath a 5 solid star rating.

In the words of the reviewer, I copy and quote:

By Amanda

I’m about half-way through Jacqueline’s poetry book and I have to say I’m in awe and spellbound by her poetry. She is amazing at describing love and life in her poems. She creates such beautiful images with her words. Truly, she is a talented writer and I’m so excited to have her poetry book and to continue reading through it. I find I have to take my time to absorb the feeling and beauty behind her words. Not a fast read, but worth taking the time to explore and find meaning.

I am clapping my hands and joyful. Thank you, Amanda, for this wonderful review and thank you to those who have taken the time to purchase it. I wish I knew who and who it is. A little flower of thanks, I am sending your way

You can support me and buy it here and there 🙂

Jacqueline

Creative Writing · Fiction · Short Stories

Al Fonzi’s…

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Sal’s damp hands, pounding heart, and throbbing temple announced an impending migraine. She struggled to maintain elegant poise before polite company whose smiling faces got on her nerves.

Now and again she felt eyes rest on her in sympathy or surreptitious glances that feigned disinterest.

The champagne tasted like chilled piss and the food held no interest for her.

Here. Where it had all happened, her mind whirred back in painful rewind.

Here was their favourite place to celebrate. First date, proposal, engagement party and every milestone worth celebrating.

She wondered fleetingly how insensitive her sister could be. Of all the places to choose for an engagement party, it has to be Al Fonzi’s. She had contemplated not turning up, but felt it would cause more wagging tongues as she became fodder for dinner discussion, not as if she already wasn’t.

Here, held all the good memories until the ugly incident brought her life to a screeching nightmare.

Here, where Stanford chose to blow his brains across the dinner table in a horrific way.

The room got too claustrophobic, the laughter and music rushed at her as she stood to go to the ladies. Sal succumbed to the encroaching blackness in a dead faint.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

 

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Blog · Featured Blogs

Featured Posts # 45…Let me share your post links.

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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’ Not much to share today.

Today’s featured blogs are:

My beloved when a young man is in love and he writes, he says it with his words.

Consolation Have you ever encountered a presence whose force is so compelling and magnificent that you’ve got no choice but to notice. That’s how the Queen of trees appears in Mel’s story. Resplendent and full of presence.

‘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

Life

Dance to the life of May…

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Each day, you choose the beats of life that you’ll dance to.

Make each dancing step a good one, since each new day is the first day of the rest of your life.

It’s always lovely to start the week and each day as much as we can with a smile and positive outlook. I find Leannenz Monday memes interesting.

Do have a fruitful and blessed week awesome people.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Mundane Monday · Uncategorized

Trash It!…

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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.

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It’s just a dinghy wooden trash collector. We have trash cans all over the place here and often take it for granted that they should be there.

Imagine if they were not implanted? Think of the fact that there are cities where heaps of garbage decorates its perimeters.

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Everyday People · Family · Photographs

Future generation…Every day beautiful people # 32

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“Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.” Sam Ewing

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# Cute baby bump 🙂