Me
I am Not From Here
I am not from here.
my hair smells of the wind
and is full of constellations
and I move about this world
with a healthy disbelief
and approach my days and my work
with vaporous consequence
a touch that is translucent
but can violate stone.
copyright 1998 Jewel Kilcher, from her book 'A Night Without Armor'. No infringement intended.
I'm Celestia Starr, although my real name is Vanessa Smith. The Celestia name came about after a grade 7 project I did for our Greek mythology unit. I had to create a god or goddess, myth and all. So I created Celestia, goddess of all celestial beings. Her myth is in the middle of a rewrite, but will soon be available to read.
When you see me, you'll most likely notice my long brown hair, eyeglasses, small mouth, green eyes, long fingernails, long arms & legs, petite bong structure, and the omnipresent pen in my hands. If you look closer, you may notice the mouth always has a small smile on it's lips, and the eyes have a faraway, almost sad, look to them.
This is, of course, just the outside.
Inside, I have a creative spirit just bursting with ideas. Fantasy & Sci-Fi Stories,Poetry, and J/C Fanfiction are spilled in blue ink onto pieces of lined paper which, (more often than not), get lost on the breeze of the whirlwind which is a busy teenager's life.
My favourite beverage is Coca-Cola, but orange juice is great for those wrong-side-of-the-bed kind of mornings. (Which is, to say, every one). I'm a self proclaimed JODSER, Chakoholic, chocoholic, and JetCer, no matter what anyone says about noe of them being addictive. I watch all incarnations of Star Trek; The Outer Limits; Sliders; Felicity; and the occasional episodes of Dharma & Greg and Who's Line is it Anyway?. I read almost all of the Trek books, as well as books by Anne McCaffrey, Anne rice, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, as well as various other sci-fi and fantasy books. Although, on occasion, my reading loyalties lie elsewhere....
Music is a vital part of my life. My stereo speaks to me through the lyrics of Jewel, Sarah McLachlan, Imani Coppola, the Goo-Goo Dolls, Cheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and anyone else who has a few words to share.
If I was a garden utensil, I'd have to be a rake, for I've always loved the feel of the sand between my toes,
tiny granules
being grinded
then sprinkled
back to their friends.
And if I were, in the fruit salad of life, any kind of fruit or vegetable, I'd have to be a pomegrante,
strange,
not what it seems,
many little seeds
are parts of one whole.
The element I feel closest to is air, with my hair
flying,
against the breeze,
while I spread my wings,
to soar.
Well, I guess that's about all you need to know about me....the rest is found inbetween the lines of my
stories
poems
and
being.
Good Journeys,
Celestia.
