Featured Posts # 21…Let me share your post links.

March 24, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha6 Comments

Have you seen these? Do send in your links, thanks 😊

Today’s featured blogs are:

D.I.Y party needs A lot of fun and money saving steps too. I have done this over the years with my children. Take a peek.

Girls Protest When young girls lead a protest match, then the smoke must have become a fire.

Four ING’s we should stop investing in: a very essential piece for the sanity of our lives. If you investing in this, just STOP!

Indentured Mel weaves magic that draws you in and holds you in suspense… exquisite.

A condom, a tooth and a power failure JUST Hilarious and not so funny when you really think about it.

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…

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Bud’s Of Spring… A collaboration..

March 24, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha45 Comments

Buds of Spring

Georgette looks out of the window Mourning, Tears, Depression, Cry, Woman, Sad, Human

The cold is fast thawing out and little fresh sprigs are sprouting.

It should be warm soon

Yet the coldness in her heart did not match the liveliness of the budding Spring

Her heart feels like a ghost town.

Where is he?

He promised her everything and she believed in him…

Counting the days and hoping that it’s just a dream.

A COOKING POT AND TWISTED TALES

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She wallowed, has winter turned to spring.

Georgette thought about him all the time,

In her mind she went over, all the special times they shared together.

By her pillow she kept, the last shirt he had worn,

It still smelled like him, and made her want him more.

Would he keep his promise and return,

Or would spring arrive everywhere but in her heart. MANDIBELLE

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From the heart’s wreckage

springs hope, a bloom delivered

“Miss you” scrawled on note

not forgotten yet

not this Georgette, rose in hand

sweet perfume in nose

Wait until summer

search for him in heat shimmers

raising wavy hopes… MELINDA KUCSERA

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Georgette sat wistfully looking out her window.

The sun was shining. The birds were tweeting, prancing, dancing and courting.

Large, colourful butterflies performed a graceful aerial ballet whiles the bees supped nectar and collected pollen.

The soft breeze ruffled the lush new green leaves in the trees.

It looked so serene and peaceful. Everywhere but in her heart. It was barren.SOUL GIFTS

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Please can someone help bail Georgette out?

We can’t let her heart languish in a barren state 😉

Feel free to add your contribution and the collabo will continue if you do.

Image courtesy: pixabay.com

Midnight Motivations and Musings 38…

March 23, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha22 Comments

It’s sad and amusing at the same time when people come across with the perception that good fortune comes from luck.

That is absolutely balderdash and misleading. Good fortune has to find you working on it.

Yes, indeed there are those who have been beneficiary’s of fortune that they’ve not necessarily worked for, by virtue of birth or winning a lottery, but the ratio is so insignificant for anyone to fold their hands and expect lady luck to come smiling with shiny teeth.

Remember the saying that ‘HEAVEN helps those who help themselves.

When you take those necessary steps each day, things align and the windows of possibilities keeps opening up.

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Nerves of Steel…

March 23, 2016May 22, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha28 Comments

Our nerves are stretched and frayed
And yes, we champ at our bits by it all
At the spate of hateful and violent attacks
Rocking the World to minutes of silence
…and viral hashtags

How can we condone this?
How can we continue like this?
What kind of horrible lives these people must live.
To harbour souls so embittered?
…and nerves made of steel.

Complete sensitivity is lost to other peoples’ lives
There are hardly words to explain such horror
And the damage that hate can do
As yet again, we are shocked from lulled senses
…and all I ask is when? When will it come to an end?

Nerves The Daily Post

Lifestyle · Writing

HAVE YOU GOT A THICK HIDE? Writers Quote Wednesday.

March 23, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha33 Comments

Rhino, Rhinoceros, Armor, India, Animal, Strong

“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”
—Harper Lee, WD

I can’t agree more with this quote above. I know one or two people, who for better want of a word to describe their predicament they ‘are ashamed of saying that they write.’

They are perpetually on the defensive about their hobby and hope to become a successful writer, so they chose to hide it.

Sometimes, I wonder if being a writer is such a terrible thing, except of course when we lop off your head in our stories and paint you black too 😉

For such people, I will say, grow skins as thick as that of a Rhinoceros, if you are definitely sure that this is the life you want to live. It’s grits, nerves and more grits.

If you feel shame for something that you love doing, then maybe, it’s not yet your thing, otherwise, how do you expect to make a headway with it?

Be prepared to hear things like the type of conversation I once had with man in the gym, who wanted to know what kind of things I write, he was sure that I wrote only housewife’s romance or sexy stuff *his words not mine*, which by the way I like to read, depending on my mood. I read extensively and across all genres.

I simply didn’t appreciate his stereo-typing and didn’t even want to bother educating him further. I cast him as a dirty villain in a short fairy tale and gave him a crooked, bumpy nose too 😉

I have had several requests to write articles for free because they feel that it will give me exposure, and in my mind, I am like ‘You don’t say!’

Be prepared to hear things like:

Are you really planning to make a living out of this? Asked in a condescending voice

I wish I had your opportunity, to just daydream and write

You know that writing is a dying industry right? In my mind, I am holding back from shouting, no you are the one dying, you buffoon! I didn’t utter that aloud did I 😉

Have you gone viral yet? I guess you have now become a flu.

So, while you are getting on with it, saddle up and let the rude, inept comments roll off your back. Don’t sweat it, what they think doesn’t matter, it’s what you think that matters.

Writer’s quote Wednesday.

Image credit: Pixabay.com

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Featured Posts # 21…Let me share your post links.

March 23, 2016March 23, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha

Today’s featured blogs are:

D.I.Y party needs A lot of fun and money saving steps too. I have done this over the years with my children. Take a peek.

Girls Protest When young girls lead a protest match, then the smoke must have become a fire.

Four ING’s we should stop investing in: a very essential piece for the sanity of our lives. If you investing in this, just STOP!

Indentured Mel weaves magic that draws you in and holds you in suspense… exquisite.

A condom, a tooth and a power failure JUST Hilarious and not so funny when you really think about it.

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.’

Photo 101 · Photographs · Uncategorized

Locomotion’s…

March 23, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha21 Comments

Watching people is totally a favourite sport, so it’s no hardship taking photos of their movement.

I can actually sit and count how many men who strolled past in a suit, or tie, or whatever catches my fancy at that point in time. It’s total fun I tell you and if your eyes are keen enough sometimes, you are rewarded with something to smile about.

I was out all day and there’s no time to simulate night movement, so between the gym, school, grabbing a bite at the mall, I think I managed to get some blurry movement shots for today’s Photo 101 theme ‘moment and motion.’

Dubai · Family · Gratitude · Humor - Bellyful of laughter · Parenting

Exhaling Loudly…This is my life.

March 23, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha18 Comments

I know it’s not weekend yet, but I am thankful that we are halfway there, or as in my case, almost a day to weekend and the school Spring breaks commences on Friday. YAYYYYY!!!

Our weekend’s over here in the Middle East starts on Thursday evenings and sometimes, it makes my mind go wonky, when the work week starts on Sunday’s and other parts of the World are still on a weekend.

It’s been one of those weeks that’s just bleh; waking up at past 4 am and making the children’s breakfast and food for school with one eye open.

I know that being a mother, weekend does not necessarily spell idling, but some things are taken out of the hectic equation.

My mouth will probably get twisted seven ways from talking, settling squabbles and I will probably pull my hair out now and again, for these days that squad will be fully at home, adrenaline filled and looking up to Mama the squad entertainer extraordinaire to keep them focused and entertained.

I shall however, thoroughly enjoy not having the infernal red alarm clock go off, just when I am getting into the zen part of the sleep; at least for the next two weeks. It even rings in my head when I am awake

On the other hand, I am equally thankful for a lovely blogger’s bash held in this space. The supportive turn out was just awesome 🙂

I am equally excited that the cover of my collected poetry will soon be ready. There’ll definitely be a sneak peek.

What are the itty-bitty things that your heart knows thanks for?

Do share if you will. Thank you.

You can join Colline’s or Maria Jansson gratitude challenge platforms.