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Friday, November 14, 2014

Something to Tuck Under Your Pillow: Two Keys to a Peaceful Sleep


Ephesians 4:26 gives us two very brief, clear and direct instructions regarding how to handle our anger each day.

1.) Do not (sin) by allowing your anger to control you.

2.) Do not let the sun go down while still holding on to whatever caused you
      to become angry.



If you choose to be obedient to the guidance and wise counsel of this scripture, written by the Apostle Paul, I think you will find it to be highly beneficial to getting a more peaceful, restful, sound sleep at night. Not to mention, these instructions will also get you through the day with far less stress and anxiety that so many people bring home to their beds at night. 

So before going to sleep tonight save the message in the above attached image along with the aforementioned scripture. Tuck it under your pillow as a reminder to control your anger during the day. Then release and let go of any and every perceived offense that may have caused you to become angry throughout your day before going to bed each night.
 

This will not only make a major difference in you experiencing a more peaceful sleep...but also a more peaceful life. Sleep well...Good night!

Until next time...I surround you in Love & Light!

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A One Love Production
By Anna "Ms. Poet" Hendricks
Copyright November 2014

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Never Give Up On Your Dreams






 If dreams only happen in your sleep,
keep sleep walking,
until your dreams become your reality. 




Until next time...I surround you in Love & Light!  


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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Celebrity Pisces List Part 1:February 19th - 23rd



Happy Birthday Fellow Pisces! Here's my list of celebrity Pisces who celebrated birthday's with us this week. I share a birthday on the same day as famous Pisces Rihanna and Legendary actor Sidney Poitier on February 20th. Check out the following list of celebrity Pisces, for this first week of Pisces birthday season, and see what famous person you shared a birthday with this week as well.

Then enjoy the attached Inspirational Love Note video by Stevie Wonder dedicated from me to all you fellow Pisces getting your birthday celebration on all weekend long. 


February 19th

Singer - Seal, 51

Singer - Smokey Robinson, 74

February 20th

Singer - Rihanna, 26

Actor - Sidney Poitier, 87

Former NBA Player - Charles Barkley, 51

Model - Cindy Crawford, 48

Legendary Jazz Singer - Nancy Wilson, 77

Actress - Sandy Duncan , 68

Legendary Clothes Designer - Gloria Vanderbilt, 90

Ex-Wife of Donald Trump - Ivana Trump, 65

February 21st

Actress - Jennifer Love Hewitt, 39

Actress - Rue McClanahan. (1934-2010-Best known as Blanche on The Golden Girls)

Actor - Kelsey Grammer, 59

Legendary Singer - Nina Simone (1933 - 2003)

Politician, Civil Rights Activist, Georgia U.S. Representative -John Lewis, 74

February 22nd

The first U.S. President - George Washington (1732 -1799)

Actress - Drew Barrymore, 39

NBA Player - Rajon Rondo, 28

NBA Legend - Julius Dr. J Erving, 64

Co-Host of ABC's The Chew - Clinton Kelly, 45

Politician -Ted Kennedy, 77 (Youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy)

February 23rd

Child Star - Dakota Fanning, 20

Actress - Niecy Nash, 44

Entrepreneur - Daymond John, 45
(Founder of FUBU urban clothing line currently starring on ABC's Shark Tank)


The attached video is a song Stevie Wonder wrote as a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in celebration of his birthday simply title, Happy Birthday. Although it was originally written with Dr. King in mind, I thought it was also befitting to dedicated to those famous Pisces on the above list and all, you not so famous, Pisces celebrating birthday's this week as well.

Like Dr. King, Pisces are people who also strongly believe in the dream of seeing peace, harmony, justice, equality, unity and love throughout humanity and in our everyday lives. 

So Happy Birthday fellow Pisces! Now sit back, listen and enjoy this beautifully written song and equally beautiful video graphics; dedicated to you today from my heart to yours with Love




Until next time...I surround you in Love & Light! So remember to keep your heart open and your love light shinning bright. 


A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks
Copyright 2014
References: http://www.famousbirthdays.com/
















Friday, February 14, 2014

Love Light Spot Light:Celebrity Aquarius List Part 2

Happy Birthday Aquarius! Here's my list of celebrity Aquarian's who celebrated birthday's with you this week. Also included in today's Inspirational Love Note, with all you water bearer's in mind, is my Love Light Spot Light artist for this week, famous Aquarius Bob Marley.

So check out the list of celebrity Aquarius below. Then enjoy the short featured article and video featuring, Legendary Aquarius, Bob Marley with today's Inspirational Love Note message through song.


February 2
Rapper - Gucci Mane ~ 34

February 3
Singer - Sean Kingston ~ 24

February 4
Civil Rights Activist - Rosa Parks ~ 1913 - 2005

Boxer - Oscar de la Hoya ~ 41

February 5
Legendary Major League Baseball Player - Hank Aaron ~ 80

Singer (Former member of the R&B group New Edition- Bobby Brown ~ 45

February 6
Legendary Reggae Singer - Bob Marley ~ 1945-1981

Jazz & Pop Singer and daughter of Legendary Singer Nat King Cole - Natalie Cole ~ 64

Actor - Robert Townsend ~ 57

February 7
Comedian - Chris Rock ~ 49

Actor - Ashton Kutcher ~ 36

Actress - Essence Atkins ~ 42

February 8
Actor - Pooch Hall ~ 37

February 9
Actor - Joe Pesci ~ 71
Actress - Camille Winbush ~ 24 ( known for her role as Vanessa on the Bernie Mac show)

February 10
Legendary Singer - Roberta Flack ~ 77

February 11
Singer - Kelly Rowland ~ 33
Singer/Actress - Brandy ~ 35
Actress - Jennifer Aniston ~ 45
Singer - Sheryl Crow ~52
Actor - Burt Reynolds ~78
Politician - Sarah Palin ~50

February 12
U.S. President- Abraham Lincoln ~(1809-1865)
Actor/Comedian/TV Show Host - Arsenio Hall

February 13
TV Show Host - Jerry Springer ~70

February 14
TV Actress - Florence Henderson ~ 80 
(most known for her role as Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch)

And this weeks celebrity in the Love Light Spot Light, is the man who introduced Reggae music to the world, Loss Legend and celebrity Aquarius, Bob Marley.

Here are a few factoids you may not have known about Bob Marley:

He was born to interracial parents, his father was European - Jamaican of British heritage and his mother was African-Jamaican.

His birth name is Nesta Robert Marley and his first but  a Jamaican passport official mistakenly switched around his first and middle name to Robert Nesta Marley.

He was born February 6, 1945 on his maternal grandfather's farm in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaican. And later, after marrying his wife Rita Anderson in 1966, he moved to the United States for a short while in Wilmington, Delaware to be near his mother who had moved there earlier. 

While living in Wilmington, Delaware he worked for DuPont as a lab assistant and on the assembly line at Chrysler under the alias name, Donald Marley. 

He was raised a Catholic by his mom and converted to Rastafari in the 60's after moving away from his mother's influence in Wilmington, Delaware back to his homeland Jamaica.  

Bob Marley, his wife Rita and his manager Don Taylor suffered gunshot wounds from an assassination attempt on his life on December 3, 1976 and he still showed up to perform for the concert he was preparing for two days later called, Smile Jamaica, organized by the Prime Minister of Jamaica at the time, Michael Manley. 

At the end of 1976 Bob Marley left Jamaica and lived in England for 2 years in self-imposed exile. 

Although Marley was a devout Rastafari for several years, on November 4, 1980 shortly before his death, he was baptised into Christianity by Archbishop Abuna Yeseshaq of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Kingston Jamaica. 

He was awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations in 1978.

In February 1981, just a few months before his death, he was awarded Jamaica's third highest honor, the Jamaican Order of Merit making his official name and title Nesta Robert Marley OM. 

Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 in Miami after a long battle with a form of cancer called melanoma that had spread throughout his body including his lungs and brain which was the cause of his death. 

Long after his death he continued to receive accolades and awards for his legendary contributions to music which included a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2001. 

In 2004 he was ranked number 11 on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Artist of All Time.

Bob Marley...a loss legend who's memory will always be honored and his music will always be an Inspirational Love Note  to the hearts and minds of generations still yet to come. 
In closing, enjoy this video to one of his most popular songs to date, One Love,  that was named song of the millennium by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and a perfect song with a perfect message to also honor both Black History Month and Valentines Day today. 



Until Next time...I surround you in Love & light! So remember to keep your heart open and your love light shining bright. 



A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks
Copyright 2014
References :  http://www.famousbirthdays.com/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley,
http://www.youtube.com/















Saturday, January 18, 2014

Love Lesson's101: You Can't Receive the Blessin's Until You First Learn the Lesson's



The wisdom of the message on the above attached image sounds like simple common sense at first glance. Yet the statistics showing the astounding number of broken homes and families torn apart due to the increasingly alarming number of break ups, sparations and divorces is evidence that says, far too many of us are missing the boat when it comes to really understanding that, "good relationships don't just happen". They obviously take more mental, spiritual, and emotional time, attentiveness and investment, than the impatient, "drive-thru", society we've become is clearly willing to make for the sake of saving love anymore.

It both seems to me and deeply saddens me that we now live in a age where maximum results are expected in love and life with minium effort invested. Likewise, it's become too easy to throw in the towel and walk way when life and especially love don't seem to be progressing at the warp speed our, "microwave mentality", society has now conditioned us to adopt the new accepted way of living and approaching life and unforuntately...Love.


So I used my poetic license to creatively share some insights I've come to learn and appreciate from lessons taught by my life experiences with love and relationships. Some of those insightful lessons came very easy for me to quickly see, understand and apply. Yet, there were a few that felt like I was an oyster irritated by the sand trapped in its shell. 

Still, as frustrating as it was while going through those love lessons being learned, the blessings that have come as a result having those challenging experiences are priceless.
You see, my experiences in love that felt like the aforementioned analogy of the oyster and the sand came to bless me not hurt me though they felt deeply painful at the time. 

What I now know on a level of profound understanding within my being is that the oysters reaction to the undesirable, unwelcomed irritation he endures from the trapped sand in his shell, is what ironically produces his valuble string of pearls. We metaphorically call those precious gems pearls of wisdom.  Hence the title for my Inspirational Love Note for today, Love Lessons 101: You Can't Receive the Blessin's Until You First Learn the Lesson's.  

If you have a good relationship and you know it, be willing to invest the time, patience, and effort it takes to not just maintain it but sustain it. While you're at it, don't forget to sprinkle it with lots mutual affection, which means expressing your love in words, actions AND deed. 

Listen with your ears NOT your ego and an open heart of compassion and understand. Always be kind and considerate to one another. Disagree without being disagreeable (there is a BIG difference). 

Focus more on your commonalities not your polarities. Be willing to be wrong sometimes. Also, be more concerned about how you make your partner feel than you are about being right. Remember you always have a choice to be right or be happy. So what good does proving that you're right if the end result is you being alone at night. 

Never take each other for granted. Always do little things together to help you remember what sparked your initial attraction that led to you falling in love in the beginning. Spontaneously leave each other hand written Love Notes on any given day of the week to keep the element of surprise alive and keep each other inspired by your mutual love.

Be attentive to each others needs and desires. Show your level of commitment by showing genuine interest in the dreams, passions and personal interest of each other in order to get to know each other better. Never stop having a genuine thirst to learn more about each other. 

No matter how long you've been together you can never know everything about a person and assuming you do is just another form of taking your partner for granted. Anything you really want to understand you must study and this truth applies to your personal relationships as well. So study your partner like a good book you enjoy reading and can't put down. 

Remember, just like anything in life you desire to succeed at, love is a full-time that requires the full-time effort of both people involved. So you must be willing to make your relationship a top priority and bring your A game even after the honeymoon phase is over. Which means, don't bring half-hearted effort to a full-time job. Think about it this way, when you prayed for someone special to enter you life you expected God to send his best. Therefore, be willing to always give your best to your relationship and your partner because they are the answer to your prayer and God's gift to you. Which brings me to my next point.

Never take any opportunity to love and be genuinely loved in return lightly. It is always a blessing from God that should be held closely and treated with an attitude of gratitude. This is wisdom it would especially behoove you to take heed to in the rare occasion you are doubly blessed to no only have an opportunity to love and be loved but to share this experience with someone who is a really good person that truly loves you, and accepts you as all your area's that still need work, wholly and completely.  

Lastly, remember this if nothing else you've read here today, a love that grows is a love that knows how to accept responsibility and take accountability for your part active participation in creative whatever the relationship has become. Therefore, pride has no place in a relationship where the mutual goal is to win the race.  Admit when you've made a mistake and remember that words have the power to heal or kill. 

So always choose your words carefully and speak to each other respectfully because the long-term damage caused by a temporary angry outburst is not worth the expensive price you later end up paying at the expense of the broken trust, emotional distance and break down in your bond your relationship will suffer. Keep in mind the wisdom of Proverbs 14:1, Homes are made by the wisdom of women, but are destroyed by foolishness. 

So instead of arguing and bickering all the time, a better alternative is to not take yourself, each other, or life so seriously. Spend lots of time having quiet pillow talk to increase you intimacy (which doesn't necessarily mean it has to lead to sex all every time). Laugh a lot with other and at each other. Never stop praying with each other and for each other daily. After all, a family that prays together really does have a better chance at staying together. 

And I save this one as my absolute final love lesson because I just can't emphasis it enough. A love and relationship that thrives, not just barely survives, is one that knows forgiveness is the key and actively practices forgiving one another constantly. 
So if you think you have a good thing standing before you and you still genuinely love each other despite all you've been through. Then never give up...never say die....never let go...never say goodbye. God is still well able because He's still the Most High. So keep you heart open...put your trust in God...and give love one more try. 

Until next time...I surround you in LOVE & light! So always keep your heart open and let your love light shine bright. 


A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks
Copyright 2014
Reference: Holy Bible, Good News Translation, http://www.biblegateway.com/



Friday, January 17, 2014

Celebrity Capricorn Birthday’s Part 2: And This Weeks Love Light Spot Light Friday Song

Happy Birthday Capricorns! Here's the part two of my list of  celebrity Capricorns between January 11th and the end of Capricorn on January 19th. Also included in today's Inspirational Love Note, with all you Capricorn's in mind, is my Love Light Spot Light Friday song artist for this week, honoring the memory of fellow Capricorn singer, Aaliyah. 

So check out the list of celebrity Caps below. Then enjoy the short featured article and video on Aaliyah with today's Inspirational Love Note message through song in honor of Aaliyah's memory and what would have been her 35 birthday's celebration. 


Celebrity List of Capricorns:

January 11th

Singer - Mary J Blige, 43
Actress - Kim Cole, 52
Actor – Rockmond Dunbar, 41
Country Singer – Naomi Judd, 68

 January 12th

Talk Show Host - Howard Stern, 60
Actress, Kirstie Alley, 63
Basketball Player, Dominique Wilkins, 54

January 13th

Actor - Patrick Dempsey, 48
Screenwriter – Shonda Rhimes, 44
(Creator of Grey’s Anatomy, The Practice, and Scandal)  

January 14th

Rapper - LL Cool J, 46
Rapper - Slick Rick, 49

January  15th

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Actress - Regina King, 43
Actor/Director - Mario Van Peeples, 57

January 16th

Singer - Sade, 55
Actress/Choreographer – Debbie Allen, 64
Boxer - Roy Jones Jr. 45
Actor - Richard T. Jones, 42

Today: January  17, 2014

Actress - Betty White, 92
Actor - Jim Carey, 52
NBA Basketball Player - Dwayne Wade, 32
Comedian/Actor/Radio & TV Show Host -Steve Harvey, 57
First Lady, Michelle Obama, 50
Rapper Lil Wayne, 43
Legendary Boxing Champion: Muhammad Ali, 72
Singer: Ray J, 33
Reggae Artist/Singer: Shabba Ranks, 48
Actor: James Earl Jones, 83
Talk Show Host: Maury Povich, 75

Later this week: Jan 19th  (Last day of Capricorn)

Actor/Comedian - Shawn Wayans, 42
Actress – Denise Boutte, 31
(Tyler Perry’s, Why Did I Get Married and TV Show Meet the Browns as Tosha)
Country Singer/Actress – Dolly Parton, 67

And my Celebrity Capricorn pick in today's Love Light Spot Light, also representing the Friday song for this week, is R&B Singer, Aaliyah.

Born Aaliyah Dana Houghton (January 16, 1979- August 25, 2001), in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Detroit, Michigan, she was known best to the world through her singing career by just her first name, Aaliyah, which means, High, Sublime. And boy did she live up to the meaning of her name as such a beautiful, extremely talented young lady, with an equally beautiful and extraordinary singing voice. But Aaliyah was more than just a pretty face with angelic vocal ability. 

As proven evident in her music video's, she was also a gifted dancer with fluid-like movement of each choreographed dance step. She was also a model and up and coming actress just before her tragic death at the tender age of 22 years old, on August 25, 2001, when the plane, she and 11 other's were on and also killed, crashed in the Bahamas while working on her last music video, Rock the Boat.   

Although she left this life at an unfortunate young age, she also began her singing career at an even younger age. Instead of playing jump rope or hopscotch outside all day, like most 10  year old little girls, Aaliyah made her first appearance singing on the television talent show Star Search. She also performed with legendary superstar Gladys Knight in concert as age 11 as well. 

She went on to sign her first recording contract at age 12 with Jive Records and Blackbird Records, owned by her uncle Barry Hankerson. Her uncle Barry Hankerson is also responsible for introducing her to R&B singing sensation, R. Kelly, who became her mentor and lead songwriter and producer on her debut album, Age Ain't Nothing But a Number, which was recorded in  when she was 14 and  sold three million copies in the U.S. and went double platinum. 

After the release of Age Ain't Nothing But a Number in 1994 there were rumors that she and R.Kelly were secretly married on August 31, 1994. This was a rumor that caused a great deal of controversy due to the age difference of the then 15 year old Aaliyah and 27 year old Kelly. It was later said that the marriage was annulled by Aaliyah's parents the following year in February 1995. 

However, since this featured article on Aaliyah is to honor her life and her talent that are both gone too soon, as well as this being a blog that promotes positive encouraging content about love not negative hearsay, I will end all commentary regarding that aspect of her personal life part with that being said. 

Now, let's shift the remaining focus of this article back to highlighting attributes about her life and career more worthy of discussion. Like the fact that she also recorded and released two more albums after her aforementioned debut album before her untimely death in 2001, which included, One in a Million in 1996 and a self-titled album Aaliyah in 2001.  And two additional albums released in the aftermath of her death entitled, I Care for You in 2002 and Ultimate Aaliyah in 2005.

She was also in the early stages of building her acting career with the leading lady role in the action drama film, Romeo Must Die opposite martial artist and actor Jet Li released in 2000. 

In closing, here are a few facts you  may not have known about our fallen angel Aaliyah:

1) She was dating Damon Dash at the time of her death, who is a entrepreneur, co-founder and co-creator (with Hip Hop Artist Jay-Z) of Roc-A-Fella Records and Rocawear Clothing  and former music executive. 

2) She attended and graduated from Detroit School of Arts High School, one of Detroit's finest magnet schools, with a 4.0 grade point average. Which means she was beautiful, talented and exceptionally smart as well.

3) She could also sing in other languages including Latin.

4) She was the niece of R&B legendary singer Gladys Knight through a former marriage to    Aaliyah's uncle, Barry Hankerson, who helped start her singing career.

5) She performed her song from the movie Anastasia when she was just 19 years old at the 1998 Oscar Awards, receiving a Oscar nomination as well the same year, making history as the youngest artist ever to perform at the Oscar Awards.

And now...without further ado, please enjoy this video in celebration of her life, honor of her memory and what would have been her 35th birthday celebration. Also, representing all the Capricorns celebrating birthday's this week as well, for your listening pleasure, here's Aaliyah delivering my special tribute Inspirational Love Note message as this weeks Friday song, with  I Miss You.





  
Until next time...I surround you in LOVE & light! So always keep your heart open and let your love light shine bright. 


A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks 
Copyright 2014
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaliyah,
http://globalgrind.com/2013/01/16/aaliyah-birthday-facts-you-didnt-know-photos-video/http://www.youtube.com/









Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Spiritual Breakthrough:Breaking the Shell


It's time to open the coffin
and remove the nails...
It's time to raise the curtains,
and let my light be unveiled.

If my body is the Holy Temple
in which God dwells...
Then it's time to see my body
healed, healthy, 
whole and well.

It's time to live life to the fullest
and break out of my shell...
It's time to brush my knee's off,
and use my spiritual truth to quell,
all frustration and regret
over times I stumbled
 or fell.

It's time to let go of the doubt
and see my life excel...
It's time to conquer all the fears,
that's held me back for years,
and finally see my faith prevail.

It's time to use my gifts
and talents in ways unparalleled...
I have a purpose to fulfill,
dreams to make real...
and a phenomenal story to tell.


Please also check out the video attached below to hear the beautifully written song, Break the Shell, by India Arie, from her latest cd, Songversation . This song was my inspiration for writing this poem about overcoming my own self-imposed limitations. 



Until next time...I surround you in LOVE & light! So always keep your heart open
and your love light shining bright.



A One Love Production
Spiritual Breakthrough: Breaking the Shell is, Poem,
By Anna M. Hendricks
Original Copyright October 12, 2013, 
Revised Copyright January 14, 2014

References: India Arie, Song, Break the Shell, from her cd, Songversation, http://www.youtube.com/

Sunday, January 12, 2014

More Than a Conqueror


Seeking to be better not bitter,
I let go of the past...
'Cause I know pain is temporary,
and the hurt won't last.

So I...forgive all ills...
Surrender my hopes and dreams
to God's Will...
Keep moving forward with my life,
'Cause there's no time 
for standing still.

Lifting my voice and hands to Thee...
Proclaiming every ungodly thing
around me shall flee...
Allowing God to purify all 
negative thoughts and energy...
Letting nothing block the good
I know He has for me.

Pressing forward toward the goal and prize
 to my glorious destiny...
'Cause I am more than a conqueror...
Born to triumph in victory.



Until next time...I surround you in LOVE & light! So always keep your heart open and let your love light shine bright. 



A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks
Original Copyright November 2013
Revised Copyright January 2014

Friday, January 10, 2014

Happy Birthday Capricorns: Celebrity Capricorn's List with the Love Light Spot Light Friday Song by Celebrity Capricorn, Singer - Tyrese

Happy Birthday Capricorns! Here's  a list  I compiled of  famous people who have celebrated birthdays in the first half of Capricorn, between Dec. 22 and today, Jan. 10th. 

Actor- Jim Carey, Born Jan. 17, 1962
Actor – Mekhi Phifer, Born Dec. 29, 1974
Actor – Morris Chestnut, Born Jan. 1, 1969
Rapper – Grandmaster Flash, Born Jan. 1, 1958
Actress – Sophie  Okonedo, Born Jan. 1, 1968
(She played the role of May Boatwright opposite Queen Latifah in the 2008 film, The Secret Life of Bees.)

Singer –Tank, Born Jan. 1, 1978
Tameka Foster, Born Jan. 1, 1971 - (Former wife of  singer, Usher Raymond) 
Actor – Cuba Gooding Jr. , Born Jan. 2, 1968
Actor – Taye Diggs, Born Jan. 2, 1971
Actor – Mel Gibson, Born Jan. 3, 1956
Actor – Bradley Cooper, Born Jan. 5, 1975
Dancing with the Stars Judge – Carrie Ann Inaba, Born Jan. 5, 1968
American dancer and choreographer who served as a judge on ABC's Dancing with the Stars.
  
Actor – Robert Duvall, Born Jan. 5, 1931
Director – John Singleton, Born Jan. 6, 1968
Actor – Nicholas Cage, Born Jan. 7, 1964
News Anchor/TV Show Host – Katie Couric, Born Jan. 7, 1957
Singer/Actor – Elvis Presley, Born Jan. 8, 1935
Singer – R. Kelly, Born Jan. 8, 1967
Duchess of Cambridge – Kate Middleton, born Jan. 9, 1982

Famous Caps born today Jan. 10th :

Singer – Rod Stewart, 1945
Boxer – George Foreman, 1949
Boxer – Felix Trinidad, 1973

And my Celebrity Capricorn pick this week, in the Love Light Spot Light also representing the Friday song for this week, is Singer/Actor-Tyrese. Born Tyrese Darnell Gibson, Dec. 30, 1978 in the Watts district of Los Angeles, where he also grew up with his two brothers raised by his mom as a single parent after his father left, he is better known in the entertainment industry today as simply, Tyrese.

Holding several titles under his belt as, Singer, Song Writer, Actor, Model, Film and Television Producer, MTV VJ, and Father to his daughter, Shayla Somer Gibson. He has also added Author to his long list of titles with his bestselling books, How To Get Out of Your Own Way, and Manology: The Secrets To Your Man's Mind Revealed
co-authored with his friend and mentor Rev. Run of, the higly acclaimed 80's rap group, Run DMC.

He began his career after being discovered on a bus which led to his appearance in the 1994 Coca-Cola television commercial advertisement, when the world was first blessed to hear his gifted voice, which I distinctly remember and still get chills down my back and butterfly's in my stomach as I reminisce about it while writing this. I can still see him singing that famous one liner yet popular catch phrase, "Always Coca-Cola." From there his professional singing career skyrocketed into the long list of successes he holds to date, which is not surprising since Capricorns are known as the zodiac sign of hard workers and high achievers.

Since then he has repeatedly made the Billboard charts with sizzling hot songs that appeal to his heavy following of female fans. With sexy, sultry, singles from his 1998 
self-titled debut album, Tyrese, like, Lately and Sweet Lady, which earned him a Grammy award, he quickly became famous in the world of romance. His creative bodies of work as a singer/songwriter went on to include a string of lustful songs oozing with passion and seduction from his five albums released between 2001 to present, including his most recent hit single, Stay, from his 2011 cd, Open Invitationthat's still in heavy rotation on urban radio today. More recently, he joined creative forces with singers Ginuwine and Tank to form TGT , a collaborative cd released in 2013. His next solo project he's working on entitled, Black Rose, is expected to be released sometime this year 2014.

But his success and fame doesn't stop there. This celebrity Capricorn is far more than just a soulful singing, 5ft 11in tall piece of chocolate eye candy. He's also a credible actor who's proven talent has justly earned him the respect he deserves in Hollywood. His most notable work as an actor include his movie debut role as Jody in, fellow Capricorn, John Singleton's 2001 movie, Baby Boy and his role as Roman Pierce in the street car racing action series, 2 Fast 2 Furious, as well as Fast and Furious 5, 6 and 7 among a long list of other hot Hollywood action films.  

Lastly, here's a couple of little factoids you may not have known about Mr. Tyrese Gibson. Did you know he started singing at the age of 14?  He also attended Florida A&M University and is a member of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. There's no doubt this abundantly talented Capricorn really lives up to the positive traits of being a high achieving, goal oriented, ambitious, family man born under the zodiac earth sign represented by the goat.

For all these aforementioned reasons it's easy to see why he's the perfect celebrity to be my pick for this weeks Love Light Spot Light, not only to represent his zodiac sign but my Inspirational Love Note Friday song as well. With that said, here's the video to his single, also perfectly befitting for my Love Note topic today, Signs of Love Makin', from his 2002 cd, I Wanna Go There.

Warning: This video is of mature content. Rated Grown & Sexy. So you might want to get your favorite glass of wine and a fan, like he has in the video, to cool you off afterward cause it is H....O...T...HOT! (LOL)





Until next time...I surround you in Love & Light! So always keep your heart open and your Love light shining bright. 



A One Love Production
By Anna M. Hendricks
Copyright 2014
Reference: wikipedia.org, 2014, famousbirthdays.com, 2014, 
Ganeshaspeaks.com/capricorn/capricorn-traits.action, 2013