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CelesteMarie

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About Me

Amo Dios.

Learning how to not only abide in His grace, but understand how to have the courage to give my own is important to me. I like to think of my life as a journey, a pilgrimage almost. I enjoy the arts, especially as an expression of the creative power that our Father sprinkled on each one of us to create our own note in this masterful opera this whole world has been singing to Him since the beginning. I'm a firm believer in that fact, that each one of us has been given a specific note in this thing called life. We're one big symphony. You got to give it your all--BELT IT OUT. You got one moment to do your single note. If you don't play, we suffer in silence (not that i'm not a fan of silence, i happen to be a big advocate of it in your everyday life). Yet, silence in an eternal opera just shouldn't be. So sing on, throw all inhibition to the wind, we all hold our breath in anticipation of your sound.

LUXURY::

"I suppose living in a materialistic society luxury to some would be having more than what you need
living in an electronic age seeing the whole world by pushing a button the nth degree might perhaps be adequately represented by having someone there to puch the buttons for you
i have thought if only i could become rich and famous i would live luxuriously in new york knowing famous people eating in expensive restaurants calling long distnace anytime i want
but you held me one evening and now i know the ultimate luxury of your love" --Nikki Giovanni
**thank you LORD for holding me one night, back in the end of February '02 and allowing me to know the ultimate luxury of your love for me

My Interests

writing:: poetry/short stories/essays/songs///reading:: anything, especially apologetics, allegories, etc///singing///missions:: the 10-40 window///children///education///GREENWOOD Christian Center///BIO///the performing arts:: plays, documentaries, museums, etc...

I'd like to meet:

my grandfather Eno Cosme, Queen Rania of Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, anyone that's been on a missions tripView All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Adrian Hood, "Brown Eyed Blues," there's no video, just the song, but I like it.

Music:

i LOVE jazz. that's what i grew up on. so, ella, louis, charlie, dizzy, duke, miles, cab, dean, frank, judy, along with many others are on a first name basis with me :). also, i'm a big fan of artists who come out of philly (musiq, jill etc.) + lauryn hill, india.arie, lizz wright, john legend, anthony hamilton, corinne bailey rae, and other "neo"-soul... + john mayer, paulo nuitini, norah jones... + jason upton, shekinah glory, william murphy, kim burrel, nikki ross, izzy, etc...

Movies:

OLD MOVIES::(flicks with Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Doris Day, Bobby Darin, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Judy Garland...) SMART MOVIES (pictures like Love Jones, Crash, Hotel Rwanda, etc.)...pretty much anything with DON CHEADLE, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, or Julia Roberts.

Television:

no television, except for the occassional Grey's Anatomy or at least it has to be educational...like the History channel.

Books:

reading, anything really, i'm an english major!::Apologetics (Lewis, Chesterton, Tolkien)/George Macdonald fairy tales/Alan Jones/poetry from the BAM [Black Arts Movement:: Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Amri Baraka]/Anne Lamott///favorite novelist: Graham Greene, hands down :) Till We Have Faces, Soul-Making, Making a Literary Life, Passion for Pilgrimage, The Holy War, Mind of the Maker, Traveling Mercies///...anything by the authors:: C.S. Lewis, Alan Jones, Anne Lamott, Dorothy Sayers, George Macdonald, Nikki Giovanni, Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Albert Einstein, C.S. Lewis

My Blog

Reflections on a birthday

First of all, I'd like to say thanks for everyone that write on my wall, texted me, and called me this past Thursday...especially those of you who are not in Jersey with me, because that probably mean...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:12:00 PST

The Ocean of You

The Ocean of You   I feel the breeze upon my face, You must be somewhere near by I feel my toes digging into the sand, You must have laid your cloak out for me I see the carefully crafted castl...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:23:00 PST

He Walks in Greatness...

This was written last year for a very close friend of mine, who happens to be an awesome Man of God.   He Walks in Greatness&   He wakes in anguish at the dawn And falls on his knees to pra...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:46:00 PST

Land of the Shadows (unfinished)

Land of the Shadows   &things are much different now, than that time long ago when I was lost in the land of the shadows though lost may not be the right word for I had been born in that land i...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:34:00 PST

Desperate for a Romance...

I look out my windowand think ofyou awake long before mebut still waiting,anticipating the firstflutter of my eyesA misty morningtells meyou've been busy alreadywatering my earthreassuring me the gras...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:37:00 PST

he's at my mercy.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. St. Francis of Assisi There is a concept I have stumbled onto, by studying more closely, one of my favorite novelists, critics, ...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:22:00 PST

Quitting.

My mom always raised my little brother and me to be "good little soldiers."  She has a very, "Life is tough, so you better be tough too" kind of attitude.  There were no excuses accepted in ...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:34:00 PST

I feel like Mary

the newest piece.  only slight revisions made as of yet, let me know what you think...   There I stood Mouth gapingwide open In total disbelief Shocked to be chosen Ignorant of why I was se...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:32:00 PST

springtime in my heart

[Springtime in My Heart] In the gardenOf my heartI kneel aloneSmall shovel By my side& thick gloves onDetermined to Pull up all the Weeds& clear the groundIm going to Turn up theFlowerbed...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:42:00 PST

Do Our Hands Melt Together?

[Do Our Hands Melt Together]   How do I hold you Without strangling you Can you protect me Without suffocating me Can I belong to you Without losing my soul How do you love me Without changing me...
Posted by CelesteMarie on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:55:00 PST