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	<title>Free By Design &#187; Pure Artistry</title>
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		<title>Fireworks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perfect! &#8220;&#8230;I kept my wits about me luckily. What happened between us that night always seems to trouble me. Now all of a sudden these gossip brags wanna cover me and you making it seem that it happened that way because of me. But I was curious and I’ll never forget it baby what an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perfect!</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;I kept my wits about me luckily. What happened between us that night always seems to trouble me. Now all of a sudden these gossip brags wanna cover me and you making it seem that it happened that way because of me. But I was curious and I’ll never forget it baby what an experience. You coulda been the one but it wasnt that serious. There was smoke in the air before that was me clearing it. That felt good. All and all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go.</p>
<p>Yeah I shoulda looked up in the sky at first. Now I can see it in your eyes&#8230;fireworks.&#8221; &#8211; Drake</p>
<p>Peace &#8211; Kimberly</p>
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		<title>Deuces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good evening. Sometimes we have the strongest attractions to people for reasons beyond our sight and knowledge. We know there&#8217;s a draw, an attraction, but we can&#8217;t put our finger on it. Unfortunately too often we ruin those relationships in the midst of us &#8220;trying to figure it out.&#8221; We guess and assume, second guess, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good evening. Sometimes we have the strongest attractions to people for reasons beyond our sight and knowledge. We know there&#8217;s a draw, an attraction, but we can&#8217;t put our finger on it. Unfortunately too often we ruin those relationships in the midst of us &#8220;trying to figure it out.&#8221; We guess and assume, second guess, rethink, and guess and assume again, while they suffer through it all. For a while they stick around hoping you&#8217;ll get it right, but then the hoping turns into waiting, and waiting turns into wasting time. Before you know it, you&#8217;re done with them and they&#8217;re done with you. No friendship or anything. Nothing left to even show for the years of effort, the years of trying.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, we live and move on deeming the entire situation as a lesson learned. Because in the end and as it is with everything in life, the greatest lesson was in the journey itself. We discovered things about ourselves that we never knew &#8211; good and bad. We learned what made us tick, what made us cry. What we needed and what we could give. Where we ended up was the person we became after it was all said and done &#8211; a person much better than we were before.</p>
<p>Wittingly or not, they made us better and for that we should be grateful.</p>
<p>Peace &#8211; Kimberly</p>
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		<title>Better Than A Hallelujah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We pour out our miseries, God just hears the melodies; beautiful the mess we are, the honest cries of breaking hearts are better than a Hallelujah.&#8221; &#8211; Amy Grant Sent from my Cellular South BlackBerry® Smartphone]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We pour out our miseries, God just hears the melodies; beautiful the mess we are, the honest cries of breaking hearts are better than a Hallelujah.&#8221; &#8211; Amy Grant</p>
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		<title>Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So tonight&#8230;Gotta leave that nine to five upon the shelf. An&#8217; just enjoy yourself. Groove. Let the madness in the music get to you. Life ain&#8217;t so bad at all if you live it off the wall&#8221; &#8211; MJ Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;So tonight&#8230;Gotta leave that nine to five upon the shelf. An&#8217; just enjoy yourself.  Groove.  Let the madness in the music get to you. Life ain&#8217;t so bad at all if you live it off the wall&#8221; &#8211; MJ</p>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Stay Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 01:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<title>For Freedom Not For Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Freedom Not For Beauty -Chrisette Michele There’s a beauty that lives so deep inside each of us. There’s a fickle eye that doesn’t believe anything it sees. There’s a benefit in love that erases all doubt and believes good intentions. There’s an ear that isn’t free enough to give the honest man the benefit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>For Freedom Not For Beauty</h1>
<h3>-Chrisette Michele</h3>
<p>There’s a beauty that lives so deep inside each of us.</p>
<p>There’s a fickle eye that doesn’t believe anything it sees.</p>
<p>There’s a benefit in love that erases all doubt and believes good intentions.</p>
<p>There’s an ear that isn’t free enough to give the honest man the benefit of the doubt cluttered by lies not-mentioned.</p>
<p>Since when is creativity subject to criticism?</p>
<p>When is honesty subject to a jury of fears who wouldn’t believe rain if it fell, or sun if it shined?</p>
<p>Sometimes a flower grows when no ones watching.</p>
<p>Sometimes a bird sings and no one hears.</p>
<p>There’s a meadow no one runs on and a cloud no one names.</p>
<p>And what would the sky be with out the sun?</p>
<p>What would the earth be with out its rose?</p>
<p>They’d still be the sky and the Earth.</p>
<p>So perhaps there is a peace in becoming.</p>
<p>Perhaps the meaning is in the experience and not the sight.</p>
<p>Maybe a flower grows because it suffocates under ground.</p>
<p>Whether or not she is always noticed, beauty must become.</p>
<p>She doesn’t look for an eye.</p>
<p>She doesn’t listen for a voice.</p>
<p>She just becomes,</p>
<p>For Freedom Not For Beauty</p>
<p>-Chrisette Michele</p>
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		<title>Just Like Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good evening. Any musician can make you bob your head and pat your feet, but only a true vocalist can quicken your spirit and make you feel the music as the lyrics speak to your soul. Word. Peace &#8211; Kimberly]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good evening. Any musician can make you bob your head and pat your feet, but only a true vocalist can quicken your spirit and make you feel the music as the lyrics speak to your soul. Word.</p>
<p>Peace &#8211; Kimberly</p>
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		<title>If Tonight Is My Last</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Only get a short time on this earth. You gotta make each moment worth something beautiful. &#160; You gotta give everybit of you, for love, half just wont do. &#160;If tonight is my last, what I gotta do? &#160;Cause if tonight is my last, I wanna spend it with you&#8221; &#8211; Laura Izibor&#8217;s &#8220;If Tonight [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Only get a short time on this earth. You gotta make each moment worth something beautiful. &nbsp; You gotta give everybit of you, for love, half just wont do. &nbsp;If tonight is my last, what I gotta do? &nbsp;Cause if tonight is my last, I wanna spend it with you&#8221; &#8211; Laura Izibor&#8217;s &#8220;If Tonight Is My Last&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Speechless.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whitney Houston&#8217;s &#8220;I Look To You&#8221; video premier About to lose my breathe,there&#8217;s no more fighting left,Sinking to rise no more,searching for that open door. And every road that I&#8217;ve takenlead to my regret.And I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m going to make it.Nothing to do but lift my head]]></description>
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<p>Whitney Houston&#8217;s &#8220;I Look To You&#8221; video premier</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">About to lose my breathe,<br />there&#8217;s no more fighting left,<br />Sinking to rise no more,<br />searching for that open door.</p>
<p>And every road that I&#8217;ve taken<br />lead to my regret.<br />And I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m going to make it.<br />Nothing to do but lift my head</span></span> </p></blockquote>
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		<title>This Song&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Cooley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;has been on my mind heavily the last few days. Its from the August Rush soundtrack/movie. Its titled, &#34;Elgar/Something Inside&#34; and performed and written by Jonathan Rhys Meyers &#34;When the one thing you&#39;re looking for is nowhere to be found. And you back stepping all of your moves trying to figure it out. You wanna [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;has been on my mind heavily the last few days.  Its from the August Rush soundtrack/movie. Its titled, &quot;Elgar/Something Inside&quot; and performed and written by Jonathan Rhys Meyers</p>
<p>&quot;When the one thing you&#39;re looking for is nowhere to be found. And you back stepping all of your moves trying to figure it out. You wanna reach out; you wanna give in. Your head&#39;s wrapped around what&#39;s around the next bend. You wish you could find something warm &#39;cause you&#39;re shivering cold.</p>
<p>It&#39;s the first thing you see as you open your eyes. The last thing you say as your saying goodbye. Something inside you is crying and driving you on. &#39;Cause if you hadn&#39;t found me, I would have found you.</p>
<p>So long you&#39;ve been running in circles &#39;round what&#39;s at stake. But now the times come for your feet to stand still in one place. You wanna reach out, you wanna give in. Your head&#39;s wrapped around what&#39;s around the next bend. You wish you could find something warm &#39;cause you&#39;re shivering cold&quot;<br />
<br />It was your first taste of love living upon what you had&quot; </p>
<p>Peace &#8211; Kimberly<br />
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