tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88689933803825611672012-02-16T01:31:20.511-08:00Charmainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821687449147198938noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8868993380382561167.post-37739915918205596062009-09-02T20:51:00.000-07:002009-09-04T10:28:32.039-07:00

I have never had a child. But, making this album has felt like a journey, a growing picture of my experiences in this life, glimpses of tears, joys, fears and finally hope. Hope that all I have given my life to is Real. I'm coming to the end of this road and ready for it to be out! Ready for you to hear and hopefully truly see what I have seen, through this music. Love Himself is more 'real'

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A little perspective changes everything. Maybe try looking at the big picture, or if you're always looking at the big picture, maybe try finding a small detailed part of whatever it is and remember why the big picture is so important. Just got to look again from a different angle. Once perspective has done it's job. Purpose makes itself clear again. And with a little of everything, joy,

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What is your name? What do you call yourself? My name is Charmaine. It means, a song or a songstress. Nice hey? My parents didn't know what it meant when they chose it for me, they just liked the sound of it! What does your name mean to you? What do you call yourself?

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This is just one way of seeing Me. A representation of my life when I allow myself to be what I was created to be. Though a bulb is so small, it contains that same mysterious life principle which produces growth in the grandest tulip. When the bulb is cast into the ground, the tiny bulb lays hold of every element that God has provided for it's

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There’s something about surrender that I still fumble around with and can’t get right: What is it about letting go that we all struggle with? When you are born you are forced into a life of total dependency. If you grow up in a fairly good home then for the next 15 to 20 years you live a life that is somewhat sheltered from the real realities of life. You have ’something’ to fall back on like,

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Everyone has a dream… expectations. A faint, yet beautiful picture of what they hope their life will turn out to be. I had mine. I emphasize the word 'had'. In my early teens, I dreamt of what life might be at the age of twenty four, hardly thinking that it might not turn out to be what I had in mind. Some might think my hopes and goals were too high. If you had said that life has a way of

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I hope that the first week of the New Year has been fantastic for you! So far for me its been really nice. Although I like Nashville alot, I have to say that LA will always have a special place in my heart. I came to spend Christmas with some of my family, and my family make LA look even better! My cousin Shondor and his lovely wife Lezlie took me to Disneyland as a Christmas gift! Had a few

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Total absence of love is the definition of evil. I'm convinced. Love in it's fullness and purity is strictly 'other-centredness'. Total selflessness. Church and church goers and generally 'good citizens' have historically labeled drinking, smoking, drugs and the abuse thereof, as well as murder, elicit sex and many other acts and things as 'sin' and 'evil'; but those things in themselves, I

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I just had a great couple of weeks with my cousin Jason Marcela and their 2 beautiful girls, Jasmine and Ashley! Went to Florida,visited 3 theme parks and ate allot. It was so much fun! I had to drop them off at the airport last Sunday. The 3 weeks that they were here with us seemed like a dream! And i didn't have a good cry about it until today. I really miss them..But i know that the world is

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I have a love hate relationship with my feeling's. They can color my life and bring me to the highest of highs. But they also can bring me down so low that i feel i will never again be happy. I know that may come across a bit over dramatic. But you must remember; Number 1, I'm a girl. Number 2, I'm a girl who's becoming a woman. And all the changes that come with that, can be quite tumultuous! I

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If all I had was 5 loaves...and I had to feed 10,000. I wonder if I would try, or find it too hard and walk away? Today i feel like i couldn't. But then there are days when i feel like i could come up with something fantastic..nothing short of a miracle! Yet today i don't. So...obviously, i can't go by how I feel from day to day, seeing that it's so flimsy. Let's look then, at my talents.

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I had an Epiphany yesterday. I had dinner and watched house with a few friends and i decided to go home a little earlier, so as i was driving home, i saw Target. I only had about 25min before it closed but i decided to go in anyway. I couldn't help myself! I really had no need to buy anything..i was just wondering around. I passed the kids area where all the toys were and i noticed the the little

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Painted one wall in my basement last night with a friend. It used to be an ugly mustard orange. Now its a fresh white. Don't know what color I'll be putting on it...we'll see. May just live with it for a while, you know? I really don't know what to tell you...there's nothing too exciting bout my life right now. No embarrassing moments (yet). I am coming out with a new EP very soon and I'll be

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I find it hard sometimes to get into books of any kind unless its an author I'm familiar with. So i was surprised to be sucked into this little book. The Tale of Despereaux. Go and read it. I wont tell you how it goes in detail cause I don't want to spoil it for you. It's a kid's book but i think it holds some good things that children may know well but adults tend to forget. Over all the story

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I'd like to think that most people can understand me when i ask for simple things like gum. but being from Australia (where we abbreviate almost everything) apparently not. It's been almost 7 years living here in the USA. its been great! Touring, singing, writing music with good friends but i realize that majority rules. I ask for 'chewy', and in spite of the fact that my friends know what I'm

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