a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
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‘Whenever you read a good book , somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. ‘ Vera Nazarian
#I love capturing such moments. Sublime 😊
‘You can tell when people are truly happy. Their energy is genuine.’ Alex Elle
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No, I have no idea why he’s covering his face 😉
‘Never limit yourself because of others limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.’ – Jemison
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#You shouldn’t sell yourself short.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Planting a seed is a risk.
We are not sure that it will grow.
We are not sure that it will not be a diseased crop.
We are not sure some wild creature will not attack it when we are not looking.
Nonetheless, we have to plant those seeds that we have in our hands. Chances are, that a good number will grow and ripen for harvest.
We must take the time to till our ground, plant, and water and be patient for the God of Harvest to increase our bounty. Except we plant, he has nothing to work on.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The hope of mankind’s future
Lies in the step of the young one’s
We are simply custodians
Meant to help them find their footing
How and what we teach them
Will mould the way they choose to walk
Let’s be wise in our teachings.
Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Future, The Daily Post Photo Prompt
‘Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.’ Ben Fosse
As ordinary as it seems, I enjoy watching people go about their days affairs. It’s always an enriching experience.
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As I walked I met a black cat
Sitting beside the trash can
Black cat and I
Stared each other in the eye.
His were vivid green
Mine as it’s always been
He meowed a bit
And he moved to my feet.
He looked mighty harmless
His velvety fur was spotless
And since he was nameless
I called him cuteness.
He couldn’t cast any spell
As far as I could tell
It must be an old wives tale
A superstitious belief gone stale.
To paint a poor kitty black
Not cutting it any slack.
I returned to pore over my mail
And indulged in a tall, cold glass of ginger ale.
Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Superstition, Daily Post Prompt
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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’
Today’s featured blogs are:
Universe, Unicorn, Mountains Can these dry bones live again? A trip up the Unicorn mountain following this sweet flowing mythical read will tell you.
Pangeia You know how those stories come to you as you are between the state of sleep and wakefulness and it turns out to be such delightful reads? This is one of such tales.
Randoms from Gibson city Titbits of a travel in which you meet good people and some downright sour people.
Being Lydia When you read Lydia’s About page, you get that warm feeling as though she’s your favourite neighbour or that aunt who lives in the next town, whom you love visiting her for a lovely natter and a fresh batch of cookies 🙂
Ejected I seriously ponder how Mel manages to keep all these fine details and weave such intriguing plots.
Please visit their blogs and say hello. A few minutes may gain you a friendly support.
‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’
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Thank you for your understanding and regards.
‘We create a cohesive community when we come together.’
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
On Thursday’s, I share pictures about ‘Echos of my Neighbourhood.
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple.
Every Thursday, share a photo of bits and pieces of wherever you are at any point in time. It could be a house, backgrounds of your neighbourhood, activities and so forth and you can tag it Echos of my Neighbourhood, add my link to your post so that I will get the ping from your post.
Every other Thursday, I will publish a post with the links of all those who participated the previous week.
This is just a fun way of getting to see more of the World around us through your eyes since we cannot all be at those places, we could, at least, see them through you.
We found time during the weekend to go to the Miracle Garden where I took tons of photos. Just sharing a bit of some of them with you and will share a bit more another time.
It’s a lovely place to spend a day. Always teeming with tourists and families especially during the weekend.
There are blooming petals everywhere and the mingled floral essence of these flowers hangs delicately in the air as you have an ice-lolly and traipse around leisurely or enjoy relaxing in one of the sit-outs or swings to be found around the perimeters.
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Last Week Echoes gave us some peeks of different neighbourhoods, hop on let’s go see and we will be glad to see some of yours 
Cycling to Ostpark beautiful, serene piece of Munich, Germany. A good place for a day’s outing.
Thoughts and entanglements Nature’s bursts in spades of beauty. The circle of birth and death.
Like Mercury Colliding Nature has so much in store for us and teaches us through its cycle. A Spring miracle to behold.
Mammoth Norwich Castle museum and art gallery certainly holds some ginormous treasure in them.
Doggerland I didn’t know about this until I looked at Kim’s photo and read her short presentation.
Mile of daffs beautiful miles of springing daffodils.
Thank you to all Echoes’ contributors. I am learning a whole lot from this challenge as well as having fun with it.
It would lovely to have you join us. Regards
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