TOURPALINE BLOG

We have a term in my home referred to as someone’s “National  Anthem”.  We usually refer to a song played over and over again  (an overplayed song) as someone’s national anthem. This is  because the national anthem is sang daily and sometimes one  gets weary of listening to the same old song. Although I must  admit that in primary school, we sometimes looked forward to  the anthem because we longed to play or hear the drums. So there was this season my sister declared a particular song as my  national anthem. It was a song sang by Juanita Bynum, titled,  “I  Don’t Mind Waiting”. Interesting enough, the song  always  ministered to me as often as I played it. It even gave me insight as  to what action to take at a certain point in my life. The lyrics of the song: I Don’t Mind Waiting By Juanita Bynum You know, sometimes in life, Situations are going to occur, Where...

Hi everyone! It’s been a while I discovered my love for writing. I love writing and sharing inspiring, informative and noble information I come across or develop in my line of thought. Although I’ve limited my contents to media outlets such as facebook, twitter and very few magazines, I’ll love to extend it to this blog which I’ve creatively called ‘Tourpaline’ . I created this blog about a year ago, but never really filled it with content. During this period I found me asking myself, ‘There are so many blogs and bloggers, why follow the trend? Asides your flair for writing, what’s your motive?’ I wasn’t particularly satisfied with my answers, so I left it dormant. Then again, the regular reminders in my thought nudged me to pursue this uncompleted project. I knew I was waiting ( w asting a vailable i ntelligence and t ime) in vein. Bill Glass once said, “When you get an insight or inspiration, do something about it within twenty-four hours or the odds are against yo...