Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
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Sometimes, nature forces us to slow down due to certain challenges that it throws our way and we are literally left in the waiting room.
While in the waiting room, it shouldn’t be seen as a drawback, but as an opportunity to decompress, to keep our eyes gazing up at the stars and yet our feet planted firmly in the present.
That would be a good time to have a bird-eye review, regroup and relaunch of that which you are projecting on.
I call it the 3 R’s .
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Today’s featured blogs are:
Gemini I DON’T exaggerate when I say that this is a fabulous and compelling story.
Connections Do you know the breakdown of your ancestry and DNA composition? This is fascinating. I think I am undiluted African, but we never know these things. Maybe I have a British or Irish or Indian or Portuguese ancestor lurking somewhere in the mix 😉
What happens when you leave the huddle? There are tested and true ways that we can keep refueling our fire over and over again.
Introducing Vashti. A writer with several intriguing books under her belt. Do go and say hello 🙂
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© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
– Somerset MaughamIt is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
– C. J. Cherryh
The above quotes repeats in my head when I think of my writing and encourages me to trudge along.
Someone once asked me how I decided that I am writer and my simple response that I have lots of stories to tell which left a blank look on her face made me feel as if I spoke Greek. Now and again, her blank face surfaces in my memory and I begin to question myself.
When I am struggling to put down the riotous thoughts in my head into a readable format, the question rises again and sometimes, a tiny voice of doubt tells me, ‘YOU ARE A FRAUD!’ WRITER YOU ARE NOT!
I have learnt to slap and shut the impish voice down, to go ahead and scribble my nonsense and leave it at that.
Well, seeing such quotes from established authors does tickle my fancy bone, and I have come to realize that there is no perfect writer. We just write that which needs to be written and leave it at that.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha – Girl writer 😉
Written for Writer’s quote Wednesday.
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Today, I have so much to say, yet I fail to know where to start from.
Life is such that we honestly have no inclination what the next hour will bring our way, much less the next day, week or year.
Our lives hang in the daily delicate balance of providence and most times, we don’t get to chose what happens to us, but the only thing that we can choose is how to react to the curves on the path of our journey and not losing grip of ourselves.
We also get to choose friends who journey along with us on life’s path and a whole lot of times, they serve as a prop and support on those shaky days.
My heart knows a lot of thanks for the restoration of health of my family members and an enormous sense appreciation for the huge outpouring of gracious wishes from all of you on my birthday on Sunday.
Your thoughts warmed me.
Regardless of the fact that online relationships may appear untenable due to it’s nature, we should never fail to appreciate or undermine the strength and support that we have in our friends and we truly have no idea the beautiful far reaching effects of these friendships.
‘It’s until you are caught in the rain that you realize that a tattered umbrella has it’s good sides.’
You can join Colline’s or Maria Jansson gratitude challenge platforms.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
It’s’ my belief that most of us have the natural inclination to look up to the skies early in the mornings and throughout the duration of each given day.
Sometimes, I spend times looking at the clouds shapes and twist up silly tales depending on what the cloud represents. This we do especially when on a long drive. I ask my children to look at a could and identify an animal or any object and say something in relation to the object found.
‘Nature is bountiful in giving and when we look deeply, we have communion with it for the poetry and stories hidden in the clouds and on Earth are endless.‘ Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Below is a composition of some of the photos that I took at different times for today’s Photo 101 theme ‘Natural World.’ None has been edited.
For two days running, I have seen this abandoned scooter and I am wondering which child left it behind. There’s a park close by.
Tongue in cheek, I dare say it belongs to a boy, from mere deductions of the Ben 10 image on it and the colour as well.
I bet he will tell his mother that he doesn’t know who took it 😉
I would have loved to be there and to see his wide-eyed innocence when he says ‘I don’t know who took it.’
So many scenarios have played in my head and I am writing a children’s story about it 🙂
Walking energizes me both physically, spiritually, mentally and so much more.
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Today’s featured blogs are:
Tears Jamila’s poetry and posts are emotive, poignant, well-worded. A lot of times, when I read her words and they resonate with me, it makes me realize how we are really all connected.
Introducing Joel Savage a friend that I found in this space. A writer with a good number of published works under his belt. His daily posts touch those hard thought provoking issues that most people shy away from.
Not fitting in but it’s okay Blogging has introduced me to so many people who are simply wonderful and inspiring. I find such in the person of Stephanae. I admire people who turn the challenges that life throws them into inspiring beacons for others.
Brooklyn These are sights of Brooklyn that will tug your heart.
Joan’s blog is a new find for me and I am quite keen on the different servings…
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IT’S A BRUNCH PARTY.
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Oh this is fun
And I want a bun
It’s time for lunch
Or better still let’s have a brunch
A kettle of Cardamon tea
And a slice of vanilla cake
A sip of rich coffee
And that bite of apple pie
There might be a carafe of table wine
With lots of grapes so divine
I think I spy some Easter bunnies
Please do hand me the honey
A medley of this and that
It will be a lively chat.
This is an invitation to a Pre-EASTER Brunch, taking place this weekend in this abode from Saturday 19th to Sunday 20th.
Come let’s dance into Spring with a spring in our steps.
Do keep a date and you’ll be glad you came.
I set a day reminder at the top corner of the right bar.
It will be good to have you here.
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When all we do is to talk and we don’t do, it then becomes Cock and Bull story.
Our reflections and introspection must try to match our conducts for any meaningful change to occur and this applies to every aspect of our lives that requires change and growth.
Some might say ‘oh yes, it’s in the plan, tomorrow I will do it,’ yet five years down the line, their tomorrow is still waiting to arrive.
The future belongs to all those who embrace constant growth transformation and exploring its directions.
Your future does not know waiting because the future is right now as we speak.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Today’s featured blogs are:
Tears Jamila’s poetry and posts are emotive, poignant, well-worded. A lot of times, when I read her words and they resonate with me, it makes me realize how we are really all connected.
Introducing Joel Savage a friend that I found in this space. A writer with a good number of published works under his belt. His daily posts touch those hard thought provoking issues that most people shy away from.
Not fitting in but it’s okay Blogging has introduced me to so many people who are simply wonderful and inspiring. I find such in the person of Stephanae. I admire people who turn the challenges that life throws them into inspiring beacons for others.
Brooklyn These are sights of Brooklyn that will tug your heart.
Joan’s blog is a new find for me and I am quite keen on the different servings that she’s got going on in Family, parenting and beyond. This particular article on breaking the silence is a must read for every parent.
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
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