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                    <title><![CDATA[My Defining Moment]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[Today has once again been a slight struggle to let go of whatever it is that blocks my mind from being free to think to work and simply be, in peace. Do you ever have those days, when your not sure wh]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/429]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Like A Kid On Holidays]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[
I love holidays!

LOVE them!
I was in Florida a few
months back, spending a week with a family I have known for years. Of course I
did my packing at the last minute and ended staying up the who]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/383]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[A Whisper]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[I run to the wonders.
Surely youâre in the thunder.
I can't hear You speaking. Is this Your voice that I'm hearing:
&quot;Can you find Me in the whisper&quot;? ... from the song &quot;Revolutiona]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/295]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Tied to the Ground]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[
















I woke up this morning with a heavy heart and there's no
reason why I should have one. I think it may be the curse of simply being a
woman, at least my dad would sa]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/265]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[MARIA]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[









 So introvert can this life be. So focused on me can this culture be. So very
engineered to feed my wants, and the tip of my finger able to access the world
at anytime. Technolog]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/235]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Almost There]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/197]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Look Again]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/214]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[What's in a name?]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
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 lik]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/215]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[How does your Garden Grow?]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[ 


                                        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 contai]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/216]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[The Dream]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[Thereâs something about surrender that I still fumble around with and
canâ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 tota]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/217]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[When I Grow Up...]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[Everyone has a dreamâ¦ 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 li]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/218]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Race Forward]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[

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 ]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/219]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Fighting Furies]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[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 ']]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/220]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[What I Hope for You]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[

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 t]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/221]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[My Constant]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[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 kno]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/222]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[I have only 5...]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/223]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Just Because]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[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 cl]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/225]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Just Here]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[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 ]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/226]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Running with Despereaux]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[
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 wo]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/227]]></link>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Do you have some chewy?]]></title>
                    <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
                    <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
                    <link><![CDATA[http://www.charmainemusic.com/charmaine/blog-article/blog/228]]></link>
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