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This Is My Home…personal

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Home lies in the beat of my heart.

Home lies in your loving arms

Home is wherever you are

Though I wander seas afar

You’ll always be on my mind.

In my days spent on Earth, my journey through life has taken me many times in so many directions, away from the shores of bricks and mortar that we called home.

From the Eastern part of my country in my childhood days, to the Western part as a young adult, I set up home in many places, but my heart lay in my parents abode.

That was the way it was until I got married and my heart expanded to accommodate some more.

In my years of matrimony, we have perambulated quite a bit. We have moved across countries and continents; from Africa to North America to Middle East and who knows where next.

In these years, I have consistently learnt to shed myself of material knick-knacks that may not make the cut during any move.

I appreciate creature comforts like other human, my cosy bed, the living room, kitchen and dining, but over these years of sojourning, I have learnt in truth, that bricks and mortar may make a house, but home are those who lie in it.

Be it a tent under the stars

Be it a caravan on the plains

Be it a mansion in a beautiful city

My home surely lies with you.

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Then and Now…

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See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil has changed to:

Look at the evil with eyes wide open and if possible with magnifying lens tied to a binoculars.

Capture the data of the evil with your high definition zoom cameras.

Listen to all contorted/distorted variations of the tasty morsel of evil with big pitcher ears and headphones.

Then go ahead and shout it through every social media forum available, Telephone, Email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc and try to break the internet by making it go viral to gain all the likes available and hopefully, the highest bidder for your captured evil will come knocking at the door with a fat cheque.

You can check  Leannenz for past Monday memes.

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

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

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1457166336574[1]Today’s featured blogs are:

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…

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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!

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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 🙂

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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

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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…

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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.

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Today’s featured blogs are:

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 mainstay to keeping that balance. Without it we could all be chasing rabbits and scaring the neighbors!’

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?

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Featured Posts 11…Let me share your post links.

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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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