KeeperofStories

a DAUGHTER to MOTHERS

2012-01-27T02:11:00.000-08:00

Megan Fox, actress Transformers

MENTORSHIP

“If you want your girls to feel strong and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model.” – Megan Fox, actress

SACRED WHORE SERIES: Wages of sin in question

2012-01-26T12:52:00.000-08:00

One year ago French Moroccan prostitute Zahia Dehar made headlines after it was claimed she had been paid for sex while underage by three French football stars. While their lives were shattered by the allegations, 19-year-old Zahia's fortunes were transformed entirely.

And now, her metamorphosis from call girl turned catwalk queen is complete, as Zahia debuted her lingerie line at Palais Brongniart - the former Paris Stock Exchange - as part of Couture Fashion Week. Taking to the runway the buxom model showcased some of her own designs, including a petal gown which left little to the imagination. The lookbook for the range was photographed by one of the world's top designers, Chanel's maestro Karl Lagerfeld..

For a girl who just a year ago was selling her body for cash, the transformation has been dramatic. Prostitution is legal in France where the accused men lived, but women selling sexual services must be 18 years old or over. Zahia was just 16 when she met French footballer Franck Ribery, 28, and 17 when Karim Benzema, 23, and Sidney Govou, 31, were accused of paying an underage vice girl thousands of pounds for sex. The men involved in the allegations faced up to three years in prison and fines of up to £40,000.

by Deborah Arthurs (1/26/12)

Zahia Dehar

A MEDITATION on November 1, 2011

2012-01-26T01:50:00.000-08:00

Kim Kardashian

“Kim Kardashian’s wedding generated money. Kim Kardashian reportedly made $17 million from the wedding, $15 million in the deal with the television cable company, E! that produced the four hour show, and $2 million Kim made selling her wedding photos to People magazine. On her show, THE VIEW, Barbara Walters added to the discussion about the brevity of Kim’s marriage the amount of money Kim Kardashian, the ideal, the corporation, made per day: $236,111, from the whole process! Barbara Walters reading the numbers to her co-hosts reminded me about the contractual relationship made with the state by couples when they wed. That contractual agreement is acknowledged during the bliss but it bites, like the proverbial scorpion who beseeched a man to ride him across the river promising not to bite him. Safely on the other side the scorpion bit the man.

“Why did you bite me? I helped you. You promised not to bite me.”

Scorpion looked up amused at the man going into shock and deeper fears and said, “You knew I was a scorpion.”

Yet people keep walking into marriage illuminated by the promises in the stories told in their lifetime feeling refreshed by the dreams of everlasting, of communion, and companionship into the sunset years. They find the communal work the soul requires of them is the construction of the spiritual aspect of the feminine energies and the masculine energies and how it exceeds the simple mathematics of romantic love when the work of merging commences. But in the human marketplace dreams land hard into the backs of wagons carrying commodities to market. It changes the structure of holiness into a frivolous notion easily overwhelmed by the business of the market place, image, and domination of one over the other. Ego finds comradeship with Harshness and it isn’t long before the truth of most marriages comes to the forefront and all parties with vested interest in a marriage admit they all base relationships upon conflict. Marriage in its original form has descended into a deep depression. The She and He of the original Marriage are always called upon being a part of Creation and the creative process of being alive, but made subservient to base emotions and needs many modern marriages succumb to divorce and evoke the mechanics of the State’s part of the marriage contract. The very crudeness of its make up finds nuptials best suited for the market place.

Fortunately, the need for marriage, for union and companionship, keeps marriage current and necessary, but within Western societies enormous amounts of money are traditionally made by the businesses that make marriage ceremonies possible, and for the knowledgeable and amongst the rich the money flows both ways. It is incredible a revelation to the naïve and the uninitiated.” ©Gregory E. Woods

a MEDITATION

2012-01-25T02:52:00.000-08:00

Freespiritsioux Tessa

BEAUTY SECRETS: contrast & illusion

2012-01-25T02:37:00.000-08:00

Kim Kardashian in natural light

Kim Kardashian

FALSE MANHOOD: Terrell Owens

2012-01-24T15:44:00.000-08:00

Terrell Owens

WOMEN:

"If there's anything I'm sorry about, it's getting involved with all that." He never actually dated any of the women, he says. One was a one-night stand, the others "repeat offenders." Owens, who has never been married, concedes he is "not a very good judge of character." Still, he "never suspected they were the types to do what they done in the past year." - Terrell Owens

FATHER

Now he is in court with all four women, whom he lumps together like one big bloodsucking blob. None of them are being fair, he says: "They know I'm not working; they know the deal." Although he never established regular visitation with any of the children through the courts, he says he sees the eldest three as much as he can when their mothers allow it. So bitter is his relationship with the mother of the youngest child, a son, that he has never met the boy.

FALSE PRAISE

"To say I regret anything would be a slap to my grandmother's face," Owens says, referring to the woman who raised him

FRIENDSHIP

He never had many friends—teammates never called him to party, he says, wrongly assuming that he was "too big" to socialize—and now, "I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel."

WEALTH

Owens said financial advisers recommended by agent Drew Rosenhaus lost much of his money in highly leveraged ventures, then houses and apartments he thought he could rent out in a worst case scenario became dead weight in a housing market collapse (none of the properties are particularly excessive, but total a yearly mortgage of about $750,000), and $2 million was lost in an Alabama entertainment complex investment. That venture turned out to be illegal, and also claimed former Redskins running back Clinton Portis as a victim. "I hate myself for letting this happen," Owens told GQ. "I believed that they had my back when they said, 'You take care of the football, and we'll do the rest.' And in the end, they just basically stole from me."

Terrell Owens has always been an island of sorts. His brash personality and self-absorption routinely alienated his teammates during an NFL career that teetered between terrific and toxic, leaving him to fend for himself.
- Jeff Arnold

STEWARDSHIP

Owens earned around $80 million during his NFL career, but has found himself in deep financial trouble, despite never spending lavishly. - Jeff Arnold, journalist

a FATHER'S SONG

TERRELL OWENS

“I don't pay much attention to pro football players, but this cat, Terrell Owens, I have vague recollection of. I remember his eyes and the hurt distance in them when he was at press conferences. I knew a lot of cats like him on the streets so deep in old wounds they come to believe their shields and masks are living breathing creatures that say: ‘This is me! This is who I am!’ By his own words he wrote his story and foretold his future in his past. He followed his path of hurt to a path of distrust and the comfort of distance and distrust fed him and closed his eyes losing him in denials. He is still asleep and wounded and distant from himself and the truth: his truth.

I ask Spirit to send me a few more men like this I can help become themselves to prepare them to enter into the deeper mysteries and states of being Life has to offer. This is my word-song.” – Gregory E. Woods

Terrell Owens

Women's songs welcome the light of the sun & embrace the moon cycles

2012-01-24T12:02:00.000-08:00

“I truly love touching and uplifting your hearts; your spirits. And I am so genuinely grateful when you all can touch and uplift mine. Let us not let go of the Joy, the Togetherness, the Compassion and the Laughter of the holidays. Let us keep our Circles close and our Hearts full! Aho and Many Blessings!” - Lynn Many Fires

"This is Great Spirit Moon, and it is manifested through the Northern Lights. This is a time to honour the silence and realize our place within all of Great Mystery’s creatures. Nokomis may the healing colors of the Star People bring much love and peace to all." - Kim Knutson

BRAZILIAN MODEL

2012-01-24T01:20:00.000-08:00

Camila Alves, Brazilian model & TV personality

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

2012-01-23T02:47:00.000-08:00

actress Halle Berry

obituary of a great man: JOE PATERNO

2012-01-22T19:22:00.000-08:00

Joe Paterno

Paterno legacy damaged by scandal, but not erased

Joe Paterno lived 85 years and I never heard of him until the homosexual rapes on Penn State campus hit the news a few months ago. As the darkness of the broadcasts echoed from one station to another his life and legacy went front and center stage. I had to shut the clamoring voices of critics, lawyers, fans, students, and reporters out to listen and later read a bit about his principles and gaze into the eyes of the people he had shaped and influenced with his deep commitments to excellence, intellectual curiosity, joy of life, perserverance, and discipline. Everybody should have men like this in their lives to ground them, and teach their spirits and mind when they are young and impressionable.

I was angered listening to the people who ripped him apart and spit on him for not doing more about what he knew about the rapes. I was angry because nothing was done about the rapes after it was reported. How do you let something like that go? I stopped myself. I knew. I knew the answers. I know the culture that protects its own at that level of financial profitability, and I understand the social stucture that supports the large institutions of male priviledge, white male priviledge, sports, and university image. Sodomy is a dark part of prison, war, and sports. It is a hidden reality and one of the main reasons I avoid sharing sports euthusiam with a lot of fraternity brothers, and have done everything possible to stay out of jail. There is a comradery in those places that frightens me because in those enviorments if certain defenses are lowered a man or a boy could easily be sodomized and no one would stop it or report it. But, Joe Paterno had a value system and a father’s connection to the lives of boys that could not stomach the violations of rape upon a boy’s spirit. Paterno's comment that he had never heard of "rape and a man" was interpreted as being out of touch. I disagree because not everyone’s lives are shaped by atrocities, and unless it was part of his life homosexual rape would remain outside of his peripheral of life.

I sensed his confusion and his compounded feelings, and his inability to ‘properly’ handle what was reported to him. What is proper? In retrospect many his age would be at a loss for words because homosexuality and rape and the combination of the two were not part of the lexicon of his era, and to make it worse the dark aspects of homosexuality were not addressed in public forums most of his life, and to add to the pain it is not addressed outside of the neat little scripts handed to people who need to learn how to speak about homosexuality in a politically correct way. It is sad, dishonest, and unfair, but that is the way it is, and that is what faced the old man. I don’t know if anyone else in his capacity would have done much different because it was a homosexual act of terror, and people today are held hostage to a mode of behavior and scripts regarding homosexuality that does not embrace whole truths. I heard this in his words when Mr. Paterno said, “I didn’t exactly know how to handle it … I backed away and turned it over to some other people, people I thought would have a little more expertise than I did. It didn’t work out that way…”

Fear. Fear and grief. Those two emotions will fuddle anyone’s thoughts and limit his or her actions. Whatever you practice in rehearsal comes out onstage.

A well written tribute by Dan Wetzel spoke to the heart of the man’s integrity which is stronger than his faults and shortcomings: “Truly great leaders are measured by the lives they reached, the people they motivated and the legacy of their lesson that can extend for years to come, like ripples from a skipped stone across an endless lake.

For Joe Paterno, the impact is incalculable, the people he connected with extending far beyond the players he coached for 62 years at Penn State the last 46 as head football coach. Paterno always tried to be the giant who walked among the everyman both in the school’s greatest moments and, it turns out, in its worst. Paterno died Sunday at a State College, Pa., hospital, suffering in his final days from lung cancer, broken bones and the fallout of a horrific scandal that not only cost him his job, but also his trademark vigor and a portion of his good name. He was 85 years old.”

All I can add is that we all need to get acquainted with Truth and learn to speak truthfully to each other and ourselves. ©Gregory E. Woods

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-wetzel_joe_paterno_obituary_012212

Joe Paterno in 1965

Joe Paterno: ‘I just did what I thought was best’

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/joe-paterno-hindsight-wish-had-done-more-235419915.html

Joe Paterno played quarterback at Brown University in 1948 & '49

Dorothy Dandridge

2012-01-22T02:31:00.000-08:00

RELATIONSHIPS: Dolly Parton, country singer

2012-01-21T02:04:00.000-08:00

Dolly Parton as a younger woman

Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton in London in May of 1977 from the Hulton archives

The light of Dolly Parton's soul transcended the dichotomy that thrived in the 1970's between white country musicians and singers and Black artists, composers, fans, and musicians. The feat was and is a tribute to the attraction of honesty and genuine interest in Life and other people's place in it. Dolly Parton's light could only grow over time and grow it did. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Dolly Parton, at 66, by Jason Meritt !!!!
DOLLY PARTON gallery
http://www.cmt.com/pictures/dolly-parton/photo-gallery/150197/6408164/artist_photo.jhtml

SPEAK UP LIFE IN OTHERS

2012-01-20T13:42:00.000-08:00

"our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

AFRICA 2012

2012-01-20T01:14:00.000-08:00

from Mereana Taki's archives

African beauty of Adeola Ariyo of Nigeria

AFRICA, the question the answer

You ask, "Where is the Original/African/Black/Kemetic/Nubian/Alkebulan/ Plans for the future?" It's in two places: within our Being, and within our children. Birthing it is as difficult as it is to center and discover the African of our ancestry... I am taken aback. The question was unexpected. In the years since I lived in Africa I learned the hard way not to speak about Africa in African American communities. I wish times and Black America was changing at the level of this question. – Gregory E. Woods

African woman be praised !!!!

“The blueprint of our future was laid down in the beginning. It’s just been buried and long forgotten by those of the unsound mind and since we are the draftsmen of today we must retrace the stepping stones and the building blocks of those who left them behind for us to grasp and synchronize and then we can follow the blueprint for tomorrow because it was already pre-planned. We were given the contract of contact information and Unification, Solidarity and all out Re-evolution is the only solution.

Black Power, love, peace, and soul!!! - Huey Newton, 2012

African Man creating

“Huey Newton, your words resonate with the truth of sacred stories that are being told around fires and during ceremonies around the world today by Peace Keepers, Wisdom Keepers and Shamans and thousands of people who are awakening and awakened by the memory and the presence of their ancestor's words buried within them preceding their births. The prophecies of the four (4) races are saying the same things. These are the times of coming together.” – Gregory E. Woods

AMERCIAN STORY: Intelligent grief isn’t part of dictatorial patriotism

2012-01-19T02:15:00.000-08:00

Bond girl Ursula Andress played Honey Ryder !!!!

2012 Primaries: Let The Games Begin

http://justblowingsmoke.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-primaries-let-games-begin.html

The United States spends more on its military than the rest of the top 15 nations with the highest military expenditure. The rest of the list includes China ($119 billion), UK ($59.6 billion), France ($59.3 billion), Russia and so on… The military industrial complex has strained democracy thin, drained our coffers, and altered the essence of right and wrong in apparent and imperceptible ways as we spread terror in creative and crude ways around the globe. Minimizing the fundamental needs of American citizens created a baffling mentality that accepts irrational justification of policies that do not benefit Life. Our worship of, and relationship with the military industrial complex has borne a curious standard social consciousness engineers have cultivated within US citizens. It is best illustrated in our entertainment.

For example, Bond girl Honey Ryder, played by Ursula Andress, and Kim Kardashian’s wedding evoked more spirited scrutiny than the dismantling of environmental protections, or the dismantling of women’s rights around the globe overwhelmed by conservative political movements and fundamental religious clerics and fanatics. Our social consciousness is suspect because the sense of spiritual responsibility isn’t part of our national conversation. Our spiritual responsibilities are suspicious creatures our maturity level is incapable of seeing. A sense of a spiritual responsibility isn’t part of our national conversation. What passes for a sense of global responsibility fanatically purchases trinkets in Wal-Mart, and camps on streets to buy a pair of tennis shoes, and shops at 4AM the day after Thanksgiving with a fiery spirit of purpose while in cities across the nation Wall Street protestors up in arms about the industries, the ideologies, and policies that created the conditions the American consumer is responding to like puppets on a string shiver in the cold uncertain about the future and the durability of being alone, defiant, in a sea of conformity. ©Gregory E. Woods

Kim Kardashian

WHAT STORIES WILL CHANGE CONDITIONS 6

2012-01-18T02:25:00.000-08:00

Michelle Sujai & Miccusukee Indians in 2010

Michelle ‘Sujai’ Harvey, on Manhood

“It seems to me that Young girls are the conversationalist. I have found woman must train men to speak to things that stimulate women. Players are the men who take the time to learn the art of seduction through words & they get most of the women. Most men try to impress women with things not words. Women take the things but they desire the words. Since words are far and few between we settle for things. Train the boys to talk. That is what is missing from most relationships. Women can seduce men with words or stimulate them. The problem is few men inspire us to make the effort.” –Michelle Harvey

DARK MYSTERIES: spiritual women

2012-01-17T06:20:00.000-08:00

Amanda Seyfried, actress, nailed a role in the movie Red Riding Hood. I went to see it in the theatre, and I've seen it a few times on cable because the storyteller draws an intense storyline about the closeness of women's intuition in a man's world, and her deep spiritual connections to elements that terrified European men... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Motherfucker 2

2012-01-17T02:47:00.000-08:00

TORTURE

this is a phenomenon i cannot grasp at any level. Yet there are women who submit to it with pleasure climaxing between pain, fear, their own death and sexual stimulation. Where does this come from? What elements call out and speak for a soul willing to submit to sexual torture? How does divinity merge into something as dark as this? - dawn wolf, keeper of stories

bondage & torture 4

bondage & torture 5

SEXUAL ENERGIES: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2012-01-16T12:33:00.000-08:00

August 28, 1963

"Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children—black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics—will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

black actress Nia Long pregnant walking with her husband 4

"... Dr. King had side women in his life, but by the time it became public knowledge it was of no importance to Black Americans because the axiom in African traditional thought places value on relationships above all, and the efforts of white Americans to present the evidence and shame were unsuccessful. The same thing years later perplexed white Americans trying to bring down Washington DC mayor, Marion Barry during his productive four terms, about African-Americans loyalty to their leaders. I studied these things hard as a father, but as a young man the Moroccan landscape, Moroccan women, and Gibran’s words were developing and opening a discipline within me, and creating enormous sexual tension, and powerful music within my being trying to get out of me as expressions of sound and movement..." ©Gregory E. Woods

Dorothy Dandridge

"Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. King, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addressed marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. My father was there and I was too young to travel so Mommy, my sister Cynthia and I watched it on TV and searched the newspapers the next day for pictures of the event to see if we could see Daddy in the crowd. We found him, or so we thought. All of the parallels of that world and the aftermath of that moment were non-existent to me then. But here in the future I am and my father who later became the Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality in Washington DC is a great-grandfather and aging. Many things have changed since 1963..." ©Gregory E. Woods, excerpt Songs of a Father

The Centre of the Wheel

2012-01-16T03:03:00.000-08:00

Moving the Assemblage Point

with Leo Rutherford, Howard G. Charing & Dawn Russell

The Level of Energy of all beings depends on three fundamental factors;
· The amount of energy with which they were conceived,
· The manner in which the energy has been utilised since birth,
· And the way in which it is being used at the present time. - Carlos Castaneda

There is a teaching that 80% of our energy is locked into habit, rigid patterns from generational & social conditioning and our personal history. The remaining 20% constitutes our true free will. The great teaching of the Medicine Wheel is to light a path to guide us towards release of these rigid habit patterns and addictions which, when unlocked, generates a reservoir of energy which can be used cognitively and with conscious intent. This is true free will and freedom - no longer living parental and cultural dreams but truly living our own.

The ultimate purpose of this body of practices is freedom. Freedom has powerful implications. Among these is that people must purposely seek and embrace change. It is no easy task to embrace change and thereby unlock the rigid structures which we have inherited, but we have innate magical qualities within ourselves to help us on the path to freedom.

Black powerful woman in control !!!!

In heightened awareness there is no objective world, but a universe consisting of flowing fields of energy where there is no subjective linear time. The particular alignment that we perceive as ‘the world’ is a product of ourselves. This alignment is within our own personal field of energy is called the ‘Assemblage Point’. On this course we work with the non-cardinal directions of the Medicine Wheel, the ‘movers and changers’.

The first movement, we begin the course at the South East, at our very beginning on the Earth, our conception and womb time when we have already started to absorb generational patterns, and emotional responses. By increasing our knowledge of what these are, we gain the ability to release and start the realignment of our assemblage point and thereby our terms of reference to the world. This part will include an overnight burial ceremony.

The second movement, is to the Southwest to examine our ‘Dream of Life’ - that which our soul has brought us into incarnation to experience and learn from. The objective is to ‘see’ this dream and apply our focussed will and intent to recreate and update this dream to one that meets with our soul’s needs now.

This is literally a step on the road to reinventing our-Self. The focus of this meeting will be the Circle of Mirrors ceremony which we have experienced as part of the South course. This time we will revisit this powerful ceremony from a whole different perspective. Includes the moving of the Assemblage Point with the aid of a crystal

The Third movement, is to the Northwest to look at pattern vs freewill (change and chaos) in our lives, to seek to strengthen our will to challenge patterns, habits and especially addictions. Ceremonies will include Trance-Dance, Trance postures and other pattern awareness shaking activities. This part may well be seriously challenging and is likely to involve some home-projects of a possibly challenging nature!

The fourth movement, is to the northeast and is about looking at the design and choreography of our lives and how we make our choices - and therefore how to actively make new and freer choices with consciousness and will. In a nutshell, to shift the assemblage point thus enabling seeing the world from other perspectives from which choices for freedom can more naturally be made.

This can shake up lives and worlds and assist greatly in the quest for ultimate freedom. Subtle energy dreaming exercises, painting, creating images, communing with nature energies will be part of this movement.

In the final meeting we will each sit in the Centre Of Our Wheel Of Life and face the directions our lives have taken us that have brought us here and the directions we now choose for our life to take us. The ultimate object of the course is to shift from being a person governed by the cross of the four cardinal directions to a person living in flowing movement and change in touch with and guided by the powers of the four non-cardinals - the movers and shakers.

Sword Lady

PURITY

2012-01-16T02:49:00.000-08:00

Foundation

Unity

Cooperation

Kindness

pussy flower - the Yoni from Ghana

PURITY 2

2012-01-16T02:11:00.000-08:00

Rihanna

TRIBUTE TO DR. KING through a life lived. . .

2012-01-16T00:39:00.000-08:00

Halle Berry, a testament to the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Native recipes

2012-01-15T16:16:00.000-08:00

RECIPES OF OUR ANCESTORS

Blue Corn

There are several colors of corn including red, blue, pink and black

kernels. Some kernels have bands, spots, or stripes on them as

well. Corn is central to the religions of many Indian tribes and is

especially important for Navajos.

Blue corn is most highly favored by the Navajo’s, Hopi’s and the

Indians of the pueblos. The flavor is considered superior to white

and yellow corn. Its nutritional value is also considered to be

greater as well. Navajos feel that blue corn is important in the diets

of pregnant and nursing women from the onset of labor to the end

of lactation.

“Corn is not simply food to the

Indians. To many groups it is the

basis of religion and the symbol of

fertility and beneficence. “Seeds of

Seeds”, “Sacred Mother”, “Blessed

Daughter” and “Giver of Life” are

all appellations by which the sacred

corn food is addressed. Long tales

of how corn came to the Indians

and stories of times when the corn

maidens visited the ancients were

told when the people sat around

the fires at night.”

Helen Walker,

Arikara

Banaha (Corn Shuck Bread)

Ingredients:

2 cups cornmeal 1 tsp baking soda

1 ½ cups hot water 1 tsp salt

corn shucks (boil 10 minutes before using)

Mix the cornmeal, baking soda and salt. Add water until mixture

is stiff enough to handle easily. Form small oblong balls and wrap

in corn shucks. Tie in the middle with corn shuck string. Drop

covered balls into a deep pot of boiling water. Cover and cook 40

minutes. Remove the shucks before serving.

Servings: 4

Tribe: Choctaw (Oklahoma)

Serving suggestions: Serve with gravy and sausage; butter, honey

or syrup; with cooked greens and other vegetables and meats such

as salt meat, pork chops.

History of recipe: This is traditionally served on special occasions:

church meetings, weddings, funerals, Choctaw festivities.

Nutrients per serving:

Calories: 252 Total fat: 1 g

Carbohydrate: 54 g. Saturated fat: 0 g

Protein: 6 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g

Sodium: 564 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg.

Bannock

Ingredients:

2 C. cornmeal ½ C. berries

3/4 C. water 1/4 C. oil for frying

5 T. oil

Blend cornmeal water and 5 T. oil. Add the berries.

Heat the oil in a large skillet. Drop the batter by small spoonfuls

into oil. Fry until golden brown and then turn, about 5 minutes per

side. Drain.

Servings: 6

Tribe: Chippewa

Note: traditionally eaten either hot or cold.

Nutrients per serving:

Calories: 256 Total fat: 13 g

Carbohydrate: 33 g Saturated fat: 2 g

Protein: 3 g Polyunsaturated fat: 7 g

Sodium: 14 mg Cholesterol: 0 mg.

Blue Bread

Ingredients:

1 cup juniper ash and 1 cup boiling water

2 C. water

3 ½ cups boiling water

6 cups cornmeal

½ tsp. salt

Mix juniper ash with 1 cup boiling water. Put 3 ½ cups water in a

pot and boil. Strain juniper water into a pot. Add 6 cups blue

cornmeal. Knead until dough is soft but firm. Shape into 30 small

patties. Put on hot skillet. Cook until brown on each side.

Mix salt and 2 C. water. Dip the breads in the salt water.

Servings: 30

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Note on serving: Commonly served with coffee and mutton stew.

Nutrients per serving:

Calories: 53 Total fat: 1 g.

Carbohydrate: 19 g. Saturated fat: 0 g.

Protein: 2 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g.

Sodium: 48 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg.

Blue Corn Bread (Loaf)

Ingredients:

1 cup juniper ash and 1 cup boiling water

3 ½ cups boiling water

6 cups cornmeal

Mix 1 cup juniper ash with 1 cup boiling water. Put 3 ½ cups

water in a pot and boil. Strain juniper water into the boiling water.

Add the blue cornmeal. Remove. Knead until dough is soft but

firm. Shape into 2 or 3 loaves. Bake in hot ashes for 1 hour.

Brush off ashes and serve warm.

Servings: 30 pieces

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Nutrients per serving:

Calories: 86 Total fat: <1 g.

Carbohydrate: 19 g. Saturated fat: 0 g.

Protein: 2 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g.

Sodium: 10 mg.Cholesterol: 0 mg.

Blue Cornmeal Dumplings

Ingredients:

1 cup juniper ash and 1 cup boiling water

3 ½ cups boiling water

6 cups ground blue cornmeal

3 cups water in separate pot

Mix juniper ash and 1 cup boiling water. Boil water in a large pot.

Strain juniper ashes into the water and stir. Add blue cornmeal and

remove from heat. Knead until dough is soft but firm. Shape the

dough into small thumb size balls.

Put 3 cups water in a big pot and boil. Add dough to boiling water

and stir. Dough will make its own gravy. Serve hot.

Servings: 30 dumplings

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Nutrients per dumpling:

Calories: 101 Total fat: 1 g.

Carbohydrate: 21 g. Saturated fat: 0 g.

Protein: 2 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g.

Sodium: 3 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg

Blue Corn Mush (Taa’niil, Tanaashgiizh)

Ingredients:

1 cup juniper ash prepared with 1 cup water

3 cups boiling water

4 cups blue cornmeal

Mix 1 cup juniper ash with 1 cup boiling water. Strain ashes into

the boiling water and stir. Add 4 cups of blue cornmeal and stir.

Boil for 30 minutes, stirring constantly. Take off heat and stir.

Servings: 16

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Note: Commonly eaten with fried bread.

Nutrients per serving:

Calories: 110 Total fat: 1 g.

Carbohydrate: 23 g. Saturated fat: 0 g.

Protein: 2 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g.

Sodium: 12 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg.

Cornmeal Mush/Porridge (Taa’niil)

Ingredients:

4 cups cornmeal 3 cups boiling water

½ cup wheat sprouts 1 cup juniper ash with

1 cup boiling water

Mix cornmeal into 3 cups boiling water. Stir and mix well,

removing all lumps. Add small amounts of wheat sprouts until

sweetened. Add 1 tbsp of juniper ash at a time until mush /

porridge thickens. The mush is then set outside to chill overnight.

The mush is ready when the mush/porridge turns into a frozen

jello- like pudding.

Servings: 15

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Note: This mush is only made during the winter months when

temperatures are very cold.

Nutrients per serving:

Calories: 142 Total fat: 1 g

Carbohydrate: 30 g. Saturated fat: 0 g

Protein: 3 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g

Sodium: 4 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg

Corn Bread or Johnny Cakes

Ingredients:

1 cup flour

1 1/4 cup water or 1 cup water + ½ cup dry milk

3 tbsp sugar

3 ½ tsp baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 cup cornmeal

1 egg

1/4 cup melted shortening

Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add egg and

cornmeal. Combine water and melted shortening. Pour into flour

mixture and stir just enough to moisten dry ingredients. Do not

beat. Pour into well-greased 8x8x2 inch baking pan. Bake at 425

degrees F for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Servings: 9

Tribe: Maliseet

Nutrients per serving:

Calories: 175 Total fat: 7 g.

Carbohydrate: 26 g. Saturated fat: 2 g.

Protein: 3 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 2 g.

Sodium: 460 mg. Cholesterol: 21 mg

Ground Cake

Ingredients:

50 lb. stone ground yellow cornmeal

50 lb. stone ground whole wheat flour

12 lb. coarsely strong ground sprouted wheat

1 large pail of simmering water

10 lb. brown sugar

5 lb. raisins

1 basketful of corn husks

Mix the cornmeal and wheat flour. Add the water, handfuls at a

time, stirring constantly. Stir the cornmeal mixture with stirring

sticks (‘adistsiin), removing all lumps. Add the sugar sparingly,

until all the cornmeal is used. Add the wheat sprouts and raisins.

Soak the corn husks.

Dig a pit in the ground about 1 yard across and 10 inches deep.

Build a fire in the pit. When the pit is thoroughly heated, remove

the hot coals. Line the pit with several layers of pre-soaked corn

husks. Pour the mush into the layers of corn husks and cover the

mush with the remaining corn husks. Cover with moist dirt and

then cover with the coals. Build a fire over the pit. Keep the fire

going for 8 hours until the cake is cooked.

‘Adistsiin (stirring sticks) is made from sticks of sage or

geasewood tied in the middle. It is used by Navajo women to stir

mush and as a strainer to catch pieces of ashes as the as the water

in which the ash has been soaking is poured into the cornmeal.

Servings: Unable to determine

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Nutrients per serving: Unable to determine

Nutrients for entire recipe:

Calories: 201,885 Total fat: 1 g.

Carbohydrate: 42,341 g. Saturated fat: 0 g.

Protein: 5644 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g.

Sodium: 3706 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg.

Kneeldow Bread (Nitsidigo’i)

Ingredients:

12 ears of fresh corn softened corn husks

Scrape the kernels from 12 ears of fresh corn. Grind the kernels on

a metate* into a mush. Make small packages of the mush by

wrapping them in corn husks.

Dig a pit in the ground about one yard across and 10 inches deep.

Build a fire in the pit. When the pit is thoroughly heated, take the

hot coals out and place the packages in the ground and cover with

some fresh leaves and slightly moist dirt, cover with coals. Build a

fire over it and bake at least one hour.

*Metate is a stone with a concave upper surface used as the nether

millstone for grinding grains and especially maize (Indian corn).

Serves: 12

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Use of recipe: After cooking packages are removed from the pit

and served hot with mutton stew, or dried and preserved for the

winter.

Nutrients per serving:

Calories: 83 Total fat: 1 g.

Carbohydrate: 19 g. Saturated fat: 0 g.

Protein: 3 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g.

Sodium: 13 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg

Navajo Blue Corn Noodles

Ingredients:

6 C. blue corn meal ½ C. juniper ash

4 C. boiling water

Mix juniper ash with boiling water in a large bowl. Add the blue

corn meal, a small amount at a time until a soft dough is formed.

Form dough into small balls about 1 ½ inches in diameter. Drop

into boiling water. Boil for about 45 minutes.

Servings: 20

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Contributor: Gladys Begay and Marieta Topaha

Use of recipe: Commonly served with roasted or stewed mutton

and outdoor cooked tortillas.

Nutrients per serving:

Calories: 156 Total fat: 2 g.

Carbohydrate: 30 g. Saturated fat: 0 g.

Protein: 3 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g.

Sodium: 1 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg

Navajo Cake

Ingredients:

6 C. water

½ C. raisins

4 C. pre-cooked blue cornmeal

½ C. wheat sprouts

2 C. pre-cooked yellow cornmeal

½ C. brown sugar

Add the two cornmeals to the water. Add the raisins, wheat

sprouts and brown sugar. Blend well dissolving all lumps. Pour

into a 9" X 9" baking pan and cover with foil. Bake at 250 degrees

for 4 hours.

Servings: 10

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Notes: Navajo cake is identical to ground cake except for the
method used to bake the cakes.
Nutrients per serving:
Calories: 380 Total fat: 1 g.
Carbohydrate: 84 g. Saturated fat: 0 g.
Protein: 8 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g.
Sodium: 13 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg.

Navajo Roasted Corn (Neeshjizhii)

To prepare Navajo roasted corn, one must build a fire in an adobe
oven and keep it going all day. Clean out all the ashes and put in
the ears of corn, including the husk, and keep it going all day.
Clean out all the ashes and put in the ears of corn and ½ bucket of
water. Seal the oven with a rock and mud. Let the corn bake all
night. In the morning, scrape the kernels off the ear and dry in the
sun.
Dried corn can be used in many different dishes once it is prepared.
The most popular dish is hominy stew.

Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Sweet Tamales (Nijilo’i)

Ingredients:
25 lbs of white cornmeal
1 cup white sugar
2 cups raisins
1/4 cup ground wheat sprouts
1 basketful of corn husks
l large pot of simmering water

Mix white cornmeal in handfuls into a large pot of simmering
water. Stir the cornmeal with stirring sticks, removing all lumps.
Add the sugar. Add the raisins. Stir. Stir in the wheat sprouts.
In a separate pan soak corn husks in simmering water. Make small
packages of the cornmeal by wrapping them in soaked corn husks
and tie with strips of corn husks. Put the wrapped packages in a
pot and boil for 1 hour, adding water as needed. Cool.

Servings: approximately 300
Tribe: The Navajo Nation

Note: Commonly served with coffee and mutton stew.
Nutrients per serving:
Calories: 144 Total fat: 1 g.
Carbohydrate: 31 g. Saturated fat: 0 g.
Protein: 3 g. Polyunsaturated fat: 0 g.
Sodium: 2 mg. Cholesterol: 0 mg

PARENTING: from conception on. . .

2012-01-15T01:37:00.000-08:00

black mother, Monica Y. Miles by Phelan Marc

“Great sense of humor is honesty. In the end and at the end of every day how we love is our measuring stick and how we are remembered.” – Gregory E. Woods

WHAT STORIES WILL CHANGE CONDITIONS 5

2012-01-15T01:07:00.000-08:00

Kim Kardashian Photo shoot by Nick Saglimbeni !!!!

MANHOOD TEACHING
PART 72

Perception

http://www.gotceleb.com/kim-kardashian/kim-kardashian-photoshoot-by-nick-saglimbeni/attachment/kim-kardashian-hot-photoshoot-by-nick-saglimbeni-02/

“It is frightening how beautiful and how deep her Armenian heritage shapes and redefines the other bloodline within her. It is remarkable, as all Beauty is, to behold and discuss within one's inner Self how Beauty unfolds. The words can only be intelligent insights into daily revelations about divinity, growth, maturation, evolution, and plunge into the deeper aspects of a woman’s spirituality. It is a natural detour from the more crass, but inevitable subject most men will embrace looking at Kim Kardashian’s body. She exudes confidence, inaccessibility, and a demure sensuality that is intoxicating.

She is fine, but the measure of a man rests in the ability of his mind’s spirit, and his spirit to rise, like a scented mist, above this sensory level, from time to time, to explore what Beauty is and what lives within Kim Kardashian. It is how I learned to see and appreciate Beauty. It is how Beauty introduced herself to me. She unraveled mysterious things for me, as I became a mist above my lust, and needs. It was a strange and different drink for me as a young man, but I drank because many before me had been transformed by Beauty and I didn’t want to remain in the stagnant pools of lust. In one dimension of Mystery are things to experience, but if there are dimensions to explore, rooms to peer into, and landscapes to discover, gawk at, and wander through why wouldn’t I learn to become a mist and float above my head to see Beauty?” – Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

BEAR, WOLVERENE, AND WOLF STORY: Yukaghir / Lamut

2012-01-14T14:57:00.000-08:00

Bear, Wolverine, and Wolf, being brothers, lived side by side. The youngest brother paid suit to the daughter of the middle one. "No," said the middle one, "How is it that you ask me for my daughter? We cannot join. You are born from the snow, and I am born from the earth." 1 Wolf grew angry and made complaint to Bear. Bear bore judgment and ordered, "If that is so, you must part." He said to Wolf, "Your temper is worst of all, you shall bring forth not more than two or three children." Wolf departed sorrowfully. Bear said to Wolverine, "You have a daughter, and refuse her to suitors, so you must not bring forth more than one, child." He blamed Wolverine, and said, "If you had given your daughter in marriage, our people would be more numerous, so you must meet your fate in the wooden thing." 2

Wolverine also grew angry, and retorted, "And you must meet your fate underground." 3 Wolverine laid a curse upon Bear: "You must sleep throughout the winter, and your fate will come to you while you are insensible to it."

So the Bear's word caused young wolves to be born by two's and three's, and wolverines singly. The Wolverine’s word caused the Bear to sleep throughout the winter, so that hunters kill him in his sleep.

Told by Ulashkan, a Lamut man, on the Molonda River, in the Kolyma country, summer of 1895.

Footnotes
34:1 The polar wolf is of light gray color, sometimes almost dirty white. The wolverine is brown.
34:2 Deadfall made of logs.
34:3 In the bear-lair when sleeping in winter, and tracked by the hunters
Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia
by Waldemar Bogoras
[1918]

AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY through the elements

2012-01-14T01:16:00.000-08:00

Bob Marley

African conjuer woman

FEAR: 13 States Introduce Useless Bills to Ban Sharia Law

2012-01-13T03:04:00.000-08:00

by Jamilla King
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/13_states_introduce_bills_to_ban_sharia_law.html

Are you ever afraid that fundamentalist Muslim extremists will take over your state court house? That’s the idea behind the radical right’s peddling of the myth that the Islamic legal code Sharia law will somehow make its way to the United States. The code is usually represented in the West as one mandating that rape victims or battered wives be stoned to death, and more broadly pointed to as evidence Islam’s mythical barbarism. Those sorts of ideas have formed the undercurrent of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. for decades.

Now, over a dozen states are taking the same misguided road traveled by voters in Oklahoma who passed a bill to guard against the non-existent threat of Sharia law on America’s shores. The attempt was largely criticized for unfairly targeting and blaming Muslims, a reason cited by Federal Court Judge Vicki Miles-LeGrange in the decision to issue a federal injunction. But that hasn’t stopped more than a dozen other states from forging ahead. Think Progress has this round-up:

Sharia Law

AFRICAN HISTORY: elegance & achievment

2012-01-13T01:49:00.000-08:00

black actress Thandie Newton at RocknRolla premiere

Billy Holiday aka Lady Day

SHARIA LAW, TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY & the CONSTITUTION

2012-01-12T05:57:00.000-08:00

Frederick Douglass

"Oklahoma residents' lack of understanding international law will be to their detriment. There is a lot of pride in ignorance, in not knowing or understanding in the United States. It has hampered growth, and relationships among other things and is a far cry from the appropriate thinking a citizen of a major global power should have... These are my words." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

http://www.stwnewspress.com/local/x2145131342/Oklahoma-Sharia-ban-falls-short-in-federal-court-appeal

altar of actress Shima Sikander

"A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction blocking a state constitution amendment to ban judicial consideration of Sharia or other international law.

The “Save Our State Amendment” was approved by 70 percent of voters in the November 2010 election. Shortly afterward, Oklahoma resident Muneer Awad — executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in the state — sued to block the State Election Board from certifying the results, a step necessary for the amendment to go into effect.

Among the claims in the lawsuit, Awad said the amendment would stigmatize Muslims, foster excessive entanglement between the government and his religion and prevent a court from being able to probate his last will and testament, which contains references to Sharia law..."

The second half of the amendment “forbids courts from considering or using international law,” which was defined in the ballot question as including “countries, states and tribes” and coming from “international agreements, as well as treaties.”

Williams said the vague wording could interfere with the state’s agreements with Oklahoma tribes that are considered sovereign states, or it could impede agreements between Oklahoma and international companies. He cited Devon Energy’s announcement earlier this week that it had sold energy plays to a Chinese company for $2.2 billion.

“I’m sure international law was involved in that, and a lot of it benefited a remarkable Oklahoma company,” Williams said." - By Ricky O'Bannon

Standing Bear - Ponca in 1877

BLACK ACTRESS: Valarie Pettiford

2012-01-12T02:26:00.000-08:00

black actress Valarie Pettiford

GOOD MORNING from New Zealand

2012-01-11T02:19:00.000-08:00

Ata marie ~ peaceful Morning Loving Kin ...it's another Sweetheart South Pacific morning chirping into joyful and triumphant miracles in expansion. Softly Birdsong lifted the veil of Night and opened a new horizon as Grandfather Sun lifted his Smile straight into our thirsty Spirits and grateful Heart songs. May your day be as radiantly renewing as Grandfather is reliable ...rising each day in faithful ascent ...showing us all The Way of Balance ...rise above into the Sky infinity of ourselves Sacred Kin ...mauriora! Lifeforce WellBEing. - Ngaronoa Taki (Jan. 9, 2012)

BLACK ACTRESS: Nia Long

2012-01-11T02:04:00.000-08:00

black actress Nia Long pregnant in black dress

BLACK ACTOR:Will Smith

2012-01-10T02:38:00.000-08:00

black actor Will Smith

FATHER BY DESIGN; a style

2012-01-09T13:38:00.000-08:00

Snoop Dogg as seen at his Official Concert Afterparty at Gallery Nightclub in Las Vegas on November 26, 2011

Snoop Dogg’s cannabis possession

http://www.exposay.com/v/53642/snoop-dogg-arrested-cannabis-possession

... Snoop has previously admitted he is honest with his three children about his troubled past, as he would rather tell them himself than let them learn from other places.

He said: "My kids know who I am, I explained it to them, the things I've done, the time I spent in jail, the reason why I went to jail, when I sold drugs.

"I told them everything so they could know from me first, as opposed to going on the internet or hearing about it from somebody else. They can make up their own minds and say, 'Well my dad told me this, I know how my dad gets down so I believe him."

Snoop Dogg photo album

http://photos.exposay.com/Snoop_Dogg/

BLACK ACTOR: Jeffrey Wright

2012-01-09T02:29:00.000-08:00

black actor Jeffrey Wright by Charley Gallay

MOTHER of BLUE IVY

2012-01-08T21:11:00.000-08:00

Beyoncé Knowles & husband enjoying each other

Beyoncé Knowles pregnant in Halloween costume !!!!

By Cesarean birth Beyoncé Knowles gave birth to a girl today. Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z named the child Blue Ivy Carter for reasons that reflect the uniqueness of their union and the emergence of the triangle from their loving circle. The word from GMA is that the couple chose the name Ivy because of the significance of the number 4 (IV) in their lives. Beyoncé was born September 4^th and her husband the 4^th of December. They were married the 4^th of April 2008 and Beyoncé’s latest album is entitled 4. The name Carter is Jay-Z’s family name.

SERENA WILLIAMS' musings

2012-01-08T02:21:00.000-08:00

After winning her opening match of the 2012 tennis season, Serena Williams told reporters she doesn't love the sport in which she excels.

"I don't love tennis today but I'm here," she said after beating Chanelle Scheepers, 6-2, 6-3, in the first round of the Brisbane International. "I can't live without it -- there's a difference between not loving something and not being able to live without it. I have never liked sports and could never understand how I became an athlete."

Serena went on to say that she doesn't like working out or training and that her 2012 schedule will be scaled back in order to provide her rest for big tournaments. The lighter slate also is intended to keep her motivated.

Serena Williams in Australia jan 1, 2012

Archie Panjabi

2012-01-07T04:41:00.000-08:00

Archie Panjabi

WHAT STORIES WILL CHANGE CONDITIONS 4

2012-01-07T00:44:00.000-08:00

WHY INDIANS KEEP THEIR HAIR LONG

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/234783-The-Truth-About-Hair-and-Why-Indians-Would-Keep-Their-Hair-Long

“Quite an insight into old teachings and old ways. I never heard of this government program. If it is true, and I lean towards believing it, they conjured up a deep connection in a linear fashion, and unable to capture the essence it escapes them and the public because of the separations engineered by an approach to life and a distance from walks around and within various Medicine Wheel teachings Hair Medicine opens one up to... Dig what I'm saying?” – Dawn Wolf

FAMILY LOVE

2012-01-06T00:13:00.000-08:00

family love - actress Katherne Heigl & Josh Kelley hold their daughter Nancy Leigh - Naleigh Septembre 12, 2009

“Love always rises to the surface of every challenge.”

– Dawn Wolf,

Keeper of Stories

WHAT STORIES WILL CHANGE CONDITIONS 3

2012-01-05T02:33:00.000-08:00

PASTOR LARRY’S DESK

http://js-pastor.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog

Heather Mandy Levy holding son with the blue sky behind

It was only theory
http://js-pastor.blogspot.com/2011/12/it-was-only-theory.html

A young child psychologist set up his practice and developed a theory and lecture for parents that he called the "Ten Commandments for Parents."

Later he married and had children of his own. He changed the title to "Ten Hints for Parents."
The first child reached the age of two and the title was changed to, "Ten Suggestions for Parent."
His children became teenagers and he stopped lecturing on the subject all together. - Pastor Larry

Dawn Wolf on porch of a house in across from Anacostia Museum

STORY OF TIME: African women stories

2012-01-04T11:31:00.000-08:00

Vanessa Williams laughing with abandon

African woman in an old picture from Ngaronoa Taki

WHAT STORIES WILL CHANGE CONDITIONS 2

2012-01-04T02:56:00.001-08:00

FAIR WEATHER LOVER

An ardent young man away in college wrote his sweetheart a letter. In this love letter he said, "I would swim the deepest river for you, I would climb the highest mountain for you. I would dash through fire and fight wild beasts for you.

He closed with a PS: If it doesn't rain I will drive home this week-end to see you.

This reminds me of the way some Christians profess their love of Jesus and nod in agreement when the preacher tells them that Jesus said to love one another and love our enemies and take care of the poor among us, but then do nothing about it.

When we say the words but do not do the actions is that a sign that we do not really believe?

http://js-pastor.blogspot.com/2011/12/fair-weather-lover.html

Great Walker and the Anishinabe Witches - Winnebago

2012-01-03T02:25:00.000-08:00

There was a man of the Anishinabeg nation and he was a seer. He was very

holy and had great powers of witchcraft. When he visited people at night, he
would do so by flying through the air. He had three friends, and they too
were witches with the same ability to fly through the air. People greatly
feared them because of their powers. One night the four of them agreed that
they would have a contest to see who could fly best at night.

Among the Hotcâgara there was also a great seer. His name was Mânîxedega
("Great Walker"). He had gained knowledge of what these men were going to
do. On the night of the contest, Mânîxedega used his own night powers to get
there and there he waited for them with great patience. Finally, the four
Anishinabeg arrived at their rendezvous point. Each took off into the night
in turn, and of the first three, Mânîxedega used his powers to ensure they
would be lost. The fourth witch dove down from high in the air and landed on
a strip of land. As he stood there, unexpectedly, he had deer horns on
his head. These Mânîxedega seized and held onto tightly.

The other Anishinabeg materialized, and asked Mânîxedega to pay them a
visit. This he agreed to do. Finally, Mânîxedega came to where the witches
lived. They tried to persuade him to let them give him their powers, but he
refused, asking instead that they might give him the plants and potions that
they used to gain these powers. But they pretended that they did not know
anything about these matters. Finally, he asked them for their
life-engendering greeting and the all power inherent within it. This they
granted him, and it is this greeting that is used to this day in the
Medicine Rite. It is spoken in the language in which it was given.

Paul Radin, The Road of Life and Death: A Ritual Drama of the American
Indians. Bollingen Series V (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973
[1945]) 138-139.

Bridget Moynahan, actress BLUE BLOOD

2012-01-02T03:19:00.000-08:00

Bridget Moynahan has a profound beauty !!!!

Anishinabe history lesson

2012-01-02T02:19:00.000-08:00

WHO ARE THE ANISHINABEG?

The common religion of the Ojibway was “Medawewin” [pronounced Me-Day-Wee-Win]. The Medawe even had their own written language, as evidenced by preserved birch bark scrolls and rock formations. The Medawewin religion consisted of four degrees or levels wherein initiates learned to use their spiritual abilities for spiritual healing. Herbalists and surgeons also belonged to the Medawewin. This may have been the origin of the term “medicine man”, since “Medawewin” sounds very similar to the English words “medicine man”.

The “Megis” was one of the primary symbols that represents the Medawewin religion. The Megis is a little shell called a cowry shell. The word “cowry” was derived from a Hindu word and is defined as “Any of various tropical marine mollusks of the family Cypraeidae, having glossy, often brightly marked shells, some of which are used as money in the South Pacific and Africa.”

* What is not mentioned in the foregoing megis definition is that megis shells were also used as money, or “wampum,” in North America before the European invasion of this continent.

What is most intriguing about the cowry shells used by the Anishinabeg is that these particular shells were not indigenous to America. “The money-cowry (Cypraea moneta) is, and has been for centuries, a sacred object among the Ojibwa and Menomini Indians of North America, and is employed in initiation ceremonies of the Grand Medicine Society [Medawewin]. The use of this particular cowry by these Indians is of peculiar interest; in the first place; owing to it being alien to the American continent, and in the second place, in view of its intimate association with so many remarkable and fantastic beliefs and practices in different parts of the Old World.”

* Cypraea moneta shells come from the South Pacific. Other shells which are native only to Asian and South Pacific seas have been found in pre-Columbian North American aboriginal sites, indicating that trans-oceanic trade was occurring prior to the European invasion.

http://www.healthfreedom.info/who_are_the_anishinabeg.htm

Anishinaabek Medicine Wheel

2012-01-01T01:53:00.000-08:00

Anishinaabek Medicine Wheel

http://www.anishinaabemdaa.com/medicinewheel.htm

Medicine Wheel of the Anishinaabemowin

WHAT STORIES WILL CHANGE CONDITIONS

2011-12-31T02:30:00.000-08:00

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots. Each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."

The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?"

"That's because I have always known about your flaw so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."

Each of us has our own unique flaw, but it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them. ~anon

an EPITAPH: Benjamin Franklin

2011-12-30T02:23:00.000-08:00

Benjamin Franklin's epithaph reads: The Body of/ B. Franklin, Printer/ Like the Cover of an old Book/ Its Contents torn out/ And Stript of its Lettering & Gilding/ Lies here, Food for Worms/ But the Work shall not be lost/ For it will as he believ'd/ appear once more/ In a new and more elegent Edition

NOTE TO A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN

2011-12-30T00:27:00.000-08:00

“You need not take your own picture. It isn't your perception of yourself that attracts. It is what you exude. It is the intangible something that says look over here there is mystery, promise and something that might surprise me. You should discover it first before anyone else otherwise you run the risk of never seeing it well enough to claim and classify as your own. There is no need to prolong the process of self-discovery. Let it happen.” - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

black woman taking her own picture

http://www.blackplanet.com/photos/view.html?photo_id=30361869

SONGS OF FREEDOM Redemption song. . .

2011-12-29T03:59:00.000-08:00

Freedom

“… one of the challenges of being a thinking and socially conscious American citizen is the reality of being spied on by the Federal government. It has been my experience as a young man, and today it is part of everyday life. It has only been a few years since Internet providers in the name of dictatorial patriotism gave our privacy away to President Bush and his Homeland Security, and it changed us, or did it? How much thinking goes into our liberty that doesn’t polarize us I wonder? The new technology comes with evasive components that tracks and follows us wherever we go, and we behave as if we have no voice of dissent. It is strange how luxury and convenience have been allowed to compromise our concepts of freedom.” ©Gregory E. Woods

Children Hispanic in Alabama

2011-12-29T02:32:00.000-08:00

Judi Dench elegant in 2011

Judi Dench in My Week with Marilyn

JUDI DENCH, actress

http://www.poptower.com/judi-dench.htm

CATHY HUGHES

2011-12-28T01:11:00.000-08:00

TEMIKA MOORE

“What an impressive woman to stand next to. Cathy Hughes, since she and her husband partnered in business at 1450 WOL Am radio in the 1970's, has been a beacon of light and worthy of study. The least I can say describes how fine she is.

My father and I marched in front of the White House with Cathy Hughes and others in the 1990's. I was struck and startled by the reflection of sunlight upon her aura which shone from within. Her walk was sexy and powerful with purpose made clear when she spoke, or looked into your eyes.

Both times spaced by 20 years burned my flesh and instilled renewed purpose within me.” - Gregory E. Woods

Cathy Hughes (r) & singer Temika Moore at the Conversation on Wealth event in Washington DC

https://www.facebook.com/#!/temikamoore

TEMIKA MOORE

2011-12-27T01:34:00.000-08:00

"Looking at you reminds me a lot of women singers who made you shine in your craft as far back and beyond Billy Holiday, Ma Rainey into the century and time before their brief reigns. Haven not heard your voice I sense it is devolped and you know the stories of the songs you sing." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

black singer Temika Moore performing at MAJIC 102.3 FM New Year's event by Rob Roberts in 2008

black singer Temika Moore & Will Downing with Spur of the Moment at University of Maryland Alumni Black Student event in 2009

https://www.facebook.com/#!/temikamoore

Anishinabe story

2011-12-26T02:06:00.000-08:00

Legend of the Woodpecker

This is a story that was told to me a few years ago. This happened to a few men when they were out tree planting in Northern Ontario.

Mii saa giiyenh aanin ninwok maanda gaazhiwebiziwat paaktigewat gwating. Mii dash gwa nidibikaaminaagwak wiigwaaming yaawat. Kaawiin ge kego waasmowin. Niizh dash gwa gwanda ninwok noonch gwa pane mizhishkchigewok. Mii dash maaba Jim giignoonaat Jo’an. “Hey Joe” dinaan saa giiyenh Joe dash giinkwetwaan “Waa” dinaan “Giikendaan naa kego”.

“Wegnesh” kida saa giiyenh Joe.

“Gwanda binenhshiinhak enchiwat, maaba dash baapaasenh, mii maaba memaanji jinaa bemaadizit”.

“Oonh mii naa gegeti” kida saa giiyenh maaba Joe.

“Enhk” kida saa giiyenh maaba Jim.

“Aasanaa iidik gekendaasyin” dinaan saa giiyenh Joe Jiman.

“Enhk ngikendaas saa gwa” kida saa giiyenh maaba Jim.

Mii dash giiyenh giinibizaantek jinaa, mii dash giiyenh maaba bezhik kiwenhziinh giidebwe’aangidoong enjipshigiizhbikak. “Giikendaanaawaa naa kego, kaa gwa genii gibeyiing ndamaadizisii giishpin etaa ginii papakweshmitziiyaanh aasmimtigong gibegiizhik”. Giikchibashkaapiwok saa giiyenh kina Anishinaabek gaayaajik.

A group of men were in their cabin. It was getting dark and there was no electricity. A couple of these men were always telling jokes and funny stories or playing pranks on people. Jim spoke out in the dark room and said, “Hey Joe. You know what?”

“What?” Joe replied.
Jim said, “Of all the birds in the bird kingdom, the woodpecker has the shortest life span.”
“Really?” said Joe.
“Yep,” said Jim.
“Boy you must be a very smart man to know this,” said Joe.
“Yep!” said Jim, “I am a smart man.”

After a few moments of silence, an elderly man spoke out from a dark corner on the other side of the room and said, “You know, I would not live long either if all I did was beat my head upside of a tree all day long.” Everyone in the room burst out laughing. http://www.anishinaabemdaa.com/legend-3.htm

English translation...

AFRICAN AMERICAN BEAUTY

2011-12-26T01:08:00.000-08:00

elegant Tonya Parker

MICHELLE OBAMA, the art of

2011-12-25T02:26:00.000-08:00

First Lady Michelle Obama

MICHELLE OBAMA gallery:

http://www.fanpix.net/gallery/michelle-obama-pictures.htm

Michelle Obama debuts her shorts as she steps out of the presidential limo at the Phoenix airport !!!!

JOY, DIVINITY & Fine Art

2011-12-25T01:10:00.000-08:00

Maitrieya Sandness

MAITRIEYA SANDESS (Akhilanda)

"Akhilanda, one of the most compelling forms a woman can capture a man's imagination with is the natural flow of her imagination. The most compelling force upon a man is the form of a woman that blends with the multiple things that attracts the form of his essence to the form of a woman's essence that is always completing herself! If that makes sense within the context of spirituality the art form of a woman's body helps divine and shape a man's essential need to see and be a part of Beauty herself." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: play, poise & assertion

2011-12-24T02:49:00.000-08:00

Whoopi Goldberg's beauty cannot be contained or concealed

Whoopi Goldberg
http://people.zap2it.com/p/whoopi-goldberg/655

“Whoopi Goldberg is several ideals of womanhood, Black womanhood, Beauty, and ethics in the workplace within one body. From the beginning of a creation story her physical beauty and the depth of its spiritual center in the best of African women’s central power in the world of nations Whoopi Goldberg’s presence has been forcing change upon the people television, stage, and screen exposed her to. Had we made different agreements before coming in this lifetime perhaps ‘we’ could have been a force.” – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/12/whoopi-goldberg-pubic-hair.html

Whoopi Goldberg's view on the VIEW on pubic hair & pornography:

PROPHECY: the beginning

2011-12-23T03:07:00.000-08:00

south african woman - Freespiritsioux Tessa

"The caverns of Earth are filled with pestilential dust which once was the bones, the flesh, the bodies of great ones who sat upon thrones, deciding causes, possessing treasures, governing armies, conquering provinces, tearing down temples, flattering themselves with pride, majesty, fortune, praise, and dominion. These glories have passed like the dark smoke thrown out by the fires of Popocatepetl, leaving no monuments but the rude skins on which they are written." -Nezahualcoyotl, Aztec poet-philosopher of medieval Mexico [Otomi transcription, translated by Brinton]

"... Aboriginal peoples are being driven off the land every day, an incalculable human loss, and into the exploding cities. Their lands are destroyed by logging and hydroelectric dams, by cattle ranches and monocrop plantations, or poisoned by oil and mineral extraction. Indigenous sovereignty and treaty rights are trampled.

The wellbeing of humanity and the natural world is savaged by a system predicated on the pursuit of wealth and addictive consumption of what is, in the long run, worthless junk. People are seduced by the most powerful manipulation of symbols in history to crave this junk and to value it over anything else that life offers, over their own humanity and all other lives..."

Freespiritsioux Tessa

http://www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/empiresfall.html

..."Conservative" has lost its meaning. What is being conserved? The infrastructure of the imperial homeland itself has been left to crumble: bridges collapse, while hospitals, public transportation and other crucial programs are defunded. New Orleans was flooded, as was predicted, because the levees weren’t maintained, and black people are prevented from returning to their homes, so that politically connected developers will profit..."

a famous GERMAN SMUGGLER

2011-12-22T06:08:00.000-08:00

Sandra Bullock on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno

This is just for fun, but on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno show the actress strolled onstage in a wonderfully flowing blue dress and relaxed enough to talk about sneaking German sausages into the country for the Christmas holidays. One of my favorite things is to get Cuban cigars in the country. The fun of it all. Click to see the video. My computer won't let me upload videos anymore. Some technical problem. Merry Christmas!! - Gregory

Sandra Bullock on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno at NBC Studios on December 19, 2001 !!!!

SANDRA BULLOCK gallery

http://justjared.buzznet.com/photos/sandra-bullock/

FASHION: an African story

2011-12-22T02:52:00.000-08:00

Carine Roitfeld

Carine Roitfeld's Style Secrets

12 May 2009

French Vogue editor (and Anna Wintour's rumoured successor) Carine Roitfeld has revealed her style secrets in an interview with Acne Paper and insists she barely ever wears jeans.

Carine said: "I only wear jeans and flat shoes when I am on holiday, never for work. Jeans suit me very well but it's not for me anymore. It's horrible to say but it has something to do with age."

She added: "Jeans are for my assistants..."

Carine said on her own style: "If people ask me to describe my look I always say: quite classic with an edge. Look at my dress. It doesn't look like I have on anything special, it’s more the way you mix the clothes and how you move, how you open your bag, how you cross your legs - just little things that make a difference. "

The editor also put paid to rumours she weighs members of staff in her office: "People think I weigh my girls in the office but I do not. We have a scale in the office because we travel a lot and sometimes you can't bring more than 25 kilos a case. It’s just to weigh my luggage, not to weigh my editors."

Is it wrong we sort of hoped this rumour was true?!

Carine Roitfeld
"It's a new kind of project for me."

Carine Roitfeld to style for Barneys

24 March 2011

Former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld is to become US store Barneys guest editor and stylist for fall/winter 2011-12.

Carine Roitfeld is to become Barneys guest editor and stylist for fall/winter 2011-12.

The former French Vogue editor - who left her position at the prestigious magazine in January - has teamed up with the US store to style and edit their Mario Sorrenti-shot advertising campaign, catalogue, newsletters, as well as the windows in their New York store, which will be unveiled in September.

Speaking about her new role, Carine told WWD: "It's very exciting. It's a new kind of project for me. It's good to have a new life, because now I can do projects that I never dreamed of before. For me, Barneys has always been the biggest name in luxury department stores, so to be able to participate in this project with them, and be visible during the next fashion week in New York, is my dream come true. To a French girl, it's a big, big dream."

Carine says she was drawn to the offer from Barneys because it gives her the opportunity to try something new.

She said: "To be on the other side with the retailers and buyers is new for me, and I always like new opportunities in my life. When I was doing my styling, most of the time I was thinking about a real woman who was going to wear the clothes. Sometimes I was thinking about myself, sometimes about a woman who really inspired me, but it was always about the woman. Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable."

Carrie Roitfeld

Carine Roitfeld prefers curvy models

18 October 2011

Carine Roitfeld always preferred using ''curvy'' models to skinny females when editing French Vogue.

Carine Roitfeld prefers using "curvy" models.

The former French vogue editor insists she never used models she thought were too thin in the magazine as she felt a responsibility to her readers, in particular because she knew her children would see the images.

She said: "In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French Vogue. I think readers can be very impressionable and you have to pay attention to what you tell them and put in the magazine.

And I tell myself that my kids are going to read the magazine and I don't want them to feel bad.

"I prefer to use curvy girls like Lara Stone."

Carine believes none of the women depicted in the magazine were ever objectified and she always tried to give the impression of "strong" females.

She added in an interview with the Independent newspaper: "I don't think the woman in French Vogue was an object. She was always a real woman.

"Even if there was a lot of bondage around her, I don't think she looks like she is suffering. If she wears high heels and a garter belt, it's because it's what she wants. She's a strong woman."

Dutch model Lara Stone
http://www.listal.com/lara-stone_ii

Lara Stone

Black model
Fashion professionals have taken the definition of big and large, and ample outside of its definitions, and applied meanings initially designed to assuage the insecurities of European women who paled in attributes African women were born with. In the centuries past when European men first gasped in astonishment at African women’s extraordinary figures, and collapsed from taking in the enormity of their breasts and thighs, and behinds their minds muddied with lust, and they began campaigns of conquest into the continent. White men long subordinate to oppressive, and conservative views around sexuality and obsessed with fulfilling raging lust for women, children, other men, and animals were presented with a challenge by African women. Faced with a social structure deemed superior by its legacy and the depths of its spirituality, education and insights into Nature, the universe and the mysterious natures of Water, Earth and Sky African women, the African continent, and its cultures intellectually assaulted French, Spanish, English, Dutch, and Portuguese men standing on the dark soil of Africa.

Today that legacy of reaction and thought is publicly flaunted in fashion statements and comments made by fashion professionals, and critics like former French Vogue editor, Carine Roitfeld’s claim: “I prefer to use curvy girls like Lara Stone.” – Gregory E. Woods

Black Unity & her sister in a club !!!!

brown sista's collage !!!

PAMELA ANDERSON: marriage

2011-12-21T01:40:00.000-08:00

I am enamored of Pamela Anderson and her flaws. I find them and enjoy the contrast between what is actually beautiful about her with what is attractive within her and what she wants to project as perfect against her flaws. She is creative and full of her Self: the self that frees itself from constraints of opinion and dogma. Any of her shows I watch because she continues to grow and re-define herself.

Pamela Anderson's long tresses & beautiful face

She must be a lover of significant and immeasurable emotions and flow patterns. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

LOVE TO A MAN

2011-12-20T01:05:00.000-08:00

Tori Black 6

LOVE is

Rever'nd Max Wellspring Oseogena wants you to know:

"Love is the greatest, clearest and cleanest motivation for anything done in the universe. If it is not clean it is not love. If it is not inpired by love it is not a clear light or clear idea. If it is not motivated by love it is of small worth and not great at all! Love is a true and accurate knowledge of, the true value you have for, and the true worth that you place on anything and anyone you live for, and give your life for! You breathe it, feel it and live for it. You breathe them, feel them and live for them. Is there some captivating purpose that you live for? Is there an importantly dear someone you can't live without? Now that is love. And you are truly living!"

actress Priyamani in red traditional garb

WOMEN teaching men

2011-12-19T01:55:00.000-08:00

Tori Black's beautiful legs

FAMOUS LEGS:

http://www.aeolia.net/legs/legsgal.htm

perfectly formed woman in bathroom taking her picture tells a story of undevelopment she may not be able to see or discern.

" One of the issues with the "men reflect what their womb teach" is that the society is so hyper-masculinized. That has caused women to suppress a great deal of innate feminine nature in an attempt to be valued. It usually happens so subconsciously that we don't realize it, which makes it harder to correct. That's how you get so many men who continue to suppress their own femininity & the outward mirror of that principal (actual women), even though they "adore" their mothers. Because their mothers in fact suppressed so much of their own femininity that they couldn't teach their sons to behave differently." - Michelle Lynn Harvey

Persia Pele entering restroom

MANHOOD: PART 69 a process

2011-12-19T01:51:00.000-08:00

absolutely beautiful woman on the shore !!!!

“… Black Men are heavily influenced by European cultures to the high degrees of alarm and concern for the generations to come, and the pain of our collective histories informs our teaching style, and how we pass knowledge to the succeeding generations. Influenced largely by Europe’s concepts fatherhood has successfully reduced the natural form of African-empowered energies to the lowest form of energies of suppression through religion, intimidation, fear, and the acquisition of things. Now based on monetary concerns children, women, and families are tormented by sub-standards fathered by the Child Supported system, a system of beliefs divorced from the standards of ancient systems..” – Gregory E. Woods

famous American actress: BRIDGET MOYNAHAN

2011-12-18T03:28:00.000-08:00

Bridget Moynahan, actress, is an exotic beauty !!!!

a LOVERS STORY: the bond

2011-12-18T02:09:00.000-08:00

"an Indian woman fell for me. i thought she was simply lonely or just a prostitute. i have never been with a prostitute. she said she wasn't one. she was recently divorced and looking for a husband. being american she thought i would not be a stickler for her traditions and maybe would like her enough to spend time with her, take care of her. i couldn't take her out of the country but for the two years in India she was my woman. i had to take her to another town far from her people to avoid ridicule. it was a solemn time in a sense because we came from two different worlds and she was considered an untouchable and i was american.

we lived together for four months before we had sex. she was offended at first but i never berated her and she liked that and took care of me. she cooked for me and washed my clothes and took care of our apartment. at night we watched tv and got to know each other watching tv and eating in bed. she never had eaten in bed or thought of doing such a thing until we got together.

one afternoon as she was falling asleep her head, on my stomach, her slim nakedness got to me and i pulled her face up to mine and gently caressed it. it was a gentle kindness in my touch as she slowly came fully awake. she had been wearing a short thin see through for a couple of weeks she was so comfortable with me, and i slid it up. when i was in her i found the depth of her pussy and saw her soul in its fragmented colors and the need she had to connect her soul with mine. i wouldn't come for a long time. i was on top of her between her legs and the entire length of me was buried in her vagina. she groaned and moaned under me staring in my eyes.

i saw fear first, then i saw acceptance, as she slowly gyrated her hips in a rhythmic pattern matching our breathing together. looking deep into each others eyes we bonded our spirits together holding dear the moment, the feeling, the love of ourselves with each other. that first time was a uniting force that has not been able to fade over the years.

we made love a lot and eventually began to fuck wildly. then i learned how much fantasy and technique lived in her imagination as it came out for me. her fuck and her love making were serious for her and being held, honored and loved was a balm, it seemed, for and on her soul. i loved and still love her. i miss being with her and grief in our absence wondering if i did enough to keep her or enough to get her out of the country. but in the end india is her home and she couldn't leave it anymore than i could not not go back to america." -

as told me during sacred times. shared by permission

excerpt from the Book of Wheels

Gregory E. Woods

Keeper of Stories

Motherfucker

2011-12-17T02:12:00.000-08:00

What is being said from deep in our psyche dreaming about, or worse, binding women with ropes, and chains? What are women saying aloud about themselves and the womb we are supposed to cherish when they submit themselves to sexual torture, and what are we saying to our children, as men, having and giving into hellish fantasy centered around slavery, sex, bondage, torture, and orgasms? What is not being said aloud? How deep is this hatred of self, the feminine and the trust we abandoned in the sacredness of love and life? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories (2007)

boxed in & contained

tormented Nadia Styles 2

torment - Nadia Styles

BEAUTY QUEEN #4

2011-12-16T15:43:00.000-08:00

Whoppi Goldberg & Jenna Jameson

“Whoopi Goldberg is one of the best looking, beautiful women in the public eye. In addition to her talent, her originality, and her voice Whoopi’s aging process is the most mature. She stands above today’s aging women embracing as the norm a belief system that is killing their souls. Whoopi Goldberg segues from one season in her life to the next as if her life is a breath one after another. As she ages her skin relaxes as she relaxes within her body. She dresses according to her will, and insist on a relationship with a beautiful body defined by African standards and the standards set by the nature of her body. There is a depth to her emotions, and her intellect one cannot pass over or dismiss because she does not have any of the European traits of beauty so highly valued.

Propped up by her gracious spirit Whoopi Goldberg has perfected the art of embracing and holding the energies of divers people. Her attempts to see into the worlds and the vision of countless people’s souls has given her access to people from every sphere of this world. She is the safe place. Her arms and her breasts hold the energies of love and acceptance, and many a soul has found solace in her embrace.” - Gregory E. Woods

CELEBRITY MOTHERHOOD

2011-12-16T14:49:00.000-08:00

actress Sandra Bullock on set of GRAVITY

"Though it's been less than two years since Sandra Bullock divorced her cheating husband Jesse James, the actress' life has changed dramatically during that time. She's now a doting single mom to 2-year-old son Louis (whom she initially began adopting with James), has set up a home in New Orleans, and is now starring in her first movie since her Oscar-winning role in "The Blind Side."

Bullock has said that mother has "made me a better person."

Sandra Bullock wearing a Alexander McQueen black satin pants suit with a daring plunging jacket by Rob Kim

KINGSHIP: in service

2011-12-16T02:49:00.000-08:00

Adindra symbol of sevice & leadership NEA OPE SE OBEDI HENE, he who wants to be king

LIFE AFTER A DIVORCE

2011-12-15T09:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.theliberationtemple.org/

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Have you ever experienced getting dumped in a relationship and not knowing how you were going to make it? Often times, the tragedy of ending a so-called good relationship can be painful at first, but over time, you learn to deal with the hurt. In many cases, the ending of one relationship makes it difficult for you to trust in the next one. The same questions surface in your mind such as can I trust him/her, will they treat me nice, and do they have the same goals and aspirations as I do? There are many more reasons, but leaving a relationship and starting a new one can be scary but also exciting.

Married couples who decide that their relationship isn't worth salvaging will choose to either separate or file for a divorce. In other words, they've both agreed that the best thing to do for the relationship is to sever it. Some relationships end without any drama, but there are others that are dramatic and traumatic. You know how it goes - one person doesn't want the other to leave and will do whatever it takes to make their partner's life a living hell. I want you to get into your spirit that you don't have to be married to divorce yourself from something unproductive and unfulfilling.

In this spiritual journey, once you give your life to God, you've divorced yourself from the enemy. Let me say it this way. When you make up your mind that you're tired of living in the devil's family and want to get your life right, you notify Satan you're divorcing him. Please don't be naïve into thinking that Satan is going to allow you to leave without a fight. In fact, he'll always fight and scheme to get you back because he hates that you've decided to live for God. Leaving Satan's family means that you have a new life; a life filled with happiness, joy, and peace. This new life means that you have power on the inside that can help you deal with anything on the outside. When you divorce yourself from Satan and allow God to be the head of your life, you can begin living.

In writing to the people of Galatia, the apostle Paul helps us understand what it means to live in the Spirit. For Paul, when we divorce ourselves from Satan and living according to the flesh and decide to live for God, we'll experience "Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control." That's shouting material because you can live a better and more fulfilled life after your divorce. As I close this message, I encourage you to divorce yourself from Satan and anything that is contrary to the will of God. You can have a better life, if you allow God to guide you. This is the time to repent and once you do, get ready to start living.

Scripture of the Day:
"You shall not steal." (Exodus 20:15 - NKJV)

Contact Information
Rev. Sinclair Grey III, M.Div.
301.699.8904

“Let me play the devil's advocate and ask if there is a mediation process in this transition? It seems there has to be. Divorcing a spouse has stages, and emotional pitfalls. Following the pattern of logic an instantaneous transition seems astounding. How do old habits, and family patterns suddenly fall away in Christ? Do they?” –Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

THE TIME FOR PEACE KEEPERS is nigh

2011-12-15T03:13:00.000-08:00

DIGGING INTO CHIN'S NUCLEAR TUNNELS by William Wan
http://news.yahoo.com/digging-china-nuclear-tunnels-013008319.html

ANGRY YOUNG MEN

2011-12-15T02:32:00.000-08:00

“Prayers are fine. I don't refute that, but young men in a culture made of fire develop deep thirsts. He needs balancing elements to guide him, and understand him with detachment and care. Water is the very element. Anytime his anger shows itself or smolders in a room place water around him, under beds, atop furniture. No need for a lot of conversation to cool hot surfaces.” Dawn Wolf, Keeper of the Drum

wave at sunset by Sheila Carnell

KELLY WEARSTLER

2011-12-14T02:27:00.000-08:00

author, interior designer Kelly Wearstler on the right & a friend in boots !!!!

“... nothing need be said about the elegance, and the maturity of older women's beauty that exceeds the boasts and silted poses of younger women unconsciously trying to appear older when they are young, and mature when they aren't. For the two of you we need not ask questions of the like for you appear as you are: mature, older, elegant, poised, and beautiful by the standards of your definitions!” – Gregory E. Woods

Kelly Wearstler

Kelly Wearstler is a distinguished interior designer and tastemaker best known for her enchanting take on interiors and the luxury lifestyle. As the visionary behind her eponymous studio, Wearstler has primed the lifestyle and design experiences for international and domestic resorts and hotels, including the Viceroy properties in Santa Monica, Palm Springs, Miami and, most recently, Anguilla; the Tides in Miami Beach as well as a re-design of the Avalon and Maison 140, both in Beverly Hills, CA...

PLAYFUL MAGIC is a sacred story

2011-12-13T02:10:00.000-08:00

Maitrieya Sandness' mystique is a compelling story and an engaging song.

Civil rights protesters of the 1960's

2011-12-12T14:44:00.000-08:00

In the 1960's Christmas felt, with the sounds of protest in the air, the way white Americans defined freedom. Today Donald Trump is on the VIEW as a guest. Barbara Walters thinks he is one of the most interesting men in the public eye. He is interesting, but he embraces a sense of patriotism and Americanism that should alarm more people than it does when looking into the faces of Black men and women fighting, in the 1960's, for freedom, dignity, self-worth, and first-class citizenship, or today studying the faces of poor white Americans who haven't grasped the enormity of their inconsistent beliefs that on the one hand supported the legislation that shovel American jobs out of the country, and on the other hand enriched the corporations that run rough shod over their dreams.

Of President Obama Donald Trump said to the VIEW panel, "I really thought he'd be a great cheerleader for this country... I have never seen this country so divided as it is now...”

Barbara Walters said something indiscernible among the cacophony of her co-hosts’ voices to which Trump responded, “… and maybe it is the Republicans also. It’s not just his fault. But the country is divided and the world is taking advantage of us, and they are taking away our wealth. I mean you go to some of these countries their streets are paved with gold, and we have potholes all over the place!”

Whoopi Goldberg appeared to be chewing her lip her face twisted with troubled thoughts. She answered Trump. “But you do realize that the European Union right now is on its knees. I mean the Euro is going down the toilet. Europe and the nations are in the worst crisis they’ve ever been in. I’m not sure where the gold is coming in!!”

“ When I look at nations I am talking about China.” Trump answered. “I am talking about India… They’re manipulating their currency! China they’re taking our jobs. They’re making our products. They’re laughing at us. They think we are so stupid they can’t believe it!”

Simpleton. Here we are in 2011 after decades of dismantling American freedoms, crippling the economic structure of the country, and dummying down the education system, and the long years of struggle by American citizens to maintain a higher standard of living beyond merely existing with crude mundane conservative approaches to life that hovered in fear from the social advancements of various groups and causes. We learned, among other things, how to not pay attention to the predictions and prophecies about the outcome of accepting the culture of the military industrial complex and how to avoid contemplation about the important things of commerce, and ethics, and morality and the outcome of foreign policy strategies that benefit us to the detriment of other country’s well being.

We are wobbling on uncertain support systems clinging to paradigms, and values, and convictions reeking with the foul odors of greed, conquest, and other elements we can’t be proud of and as a nation we take pleasure feeling triumphant over the failures of President Obama who ascended into office with the purpose of trying correct what is wrong with America in the 11th hour of our existence not as a Messiah, but as one at the helm of a collective effort. Not willing to change to change a large segment of our government chose infantile and stubborn behaviours that enjoyed not being cooperative. They entertained the mentality of a bygone time in the 1960’s and earlier when white America obsessed over racial supremacy despite the obvious outcome upon their souls, and the soul of the nation. How much has changed in 111 years? – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Whoopi Goldberg as Marvis Rae

BEAUTY QUEEN #3

2011-12-12T01:27:00.000-08:00

exquisite black beauty of Niemah Nefertiti

SQUIRRELS

“I was sitting across from the White House early one morning in Lafayette Park, in a suit, eating my lunch for breakfast when five (5) grey squirrels surrounded me, attacked me and chased me out of the park. They were trying to get my food, and did not want some of it. They wanted it all. This was just before President Bush went into office.

I later thought it was either the sign of times to come, or I needed to be knocked down a peg or two. Either verdict was humbling.” – Gregory E. Woods

BEAUTY QUEEN #2

2011-12-11T01:17:00.000-08:00

Eva Mendes wears ring from Sutra Jewels to movie premier Very Bad Cops

“The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept with everyone else and it’s some sort of strange weird cycle.” Eva Mendes

BEAUTY QUEEN

2011-12-10T02:47:00.000-08:00

Lesa Wineglass Smalls from Gullah Geechee nation

LESA WINEGLASS SMALLS

“Oh, my goodness!! Your beauty is a breath; a breathing technique learned from perceptions within the heart and soul of divination. The breath it (the intangible) comes from the place it returns to: the imagination, a body of truths, and the heartfelt response to a woman's beauty and the beauty of a woman in the world.” - Gregory E. Woods

Biography of the popular Movie Actress Judi Dench

2011-12-09T02:18:00.000-08:00

actress Judi Dench at Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year awards 2011 in London 3

Judi Dench born as Judith Olivia Dench on December 9th, 1934 in York, North Yorkshire, England is one of the finest refined English actresses who became a screen legend in her own right in the business of acting. The number of awards and number of titles she won stand testimony to her acting talents.

Judi Dench received a whopping 82 awards nominations of which she won 28. Judi Dench received 6 Oscar nominations of which she bagged one; received 23 BAFTA nominations winning 10 of them; she also won two Golden Globes from 7 nominations. She also won 6 six Laurence Olivier Awards besides multiple of other awards. Judi Dench was honored with Fellowship at the Royal Society of Arts in 2006. She was conferred OBE in 1970 and later the title of Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1988. In 2005 Judi was made a Companion of Honor. She was thus known as Dame Judi Dench, DBE, and FRSA.

Judi Dench was born to Eleanora Olave nee Jones, a native of Dublin and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Trinity College. Judi Dench has an older brother and actor Jeffrey Dench. Judi studied at The Mount School, York. Taking up the family tradition of theatrical acting, Judi Dench enrolled herself at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art.

Judi Dench made her professional stage debut with a role of 'Ophelia' in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" staged by Old Vic Production Company at the Royal Court Theater in Liverpool. She spent four years with Old Vic productions from 957-1961. Judi Dench later moved to several stage production houses such as Royal Shakespeare Company in December of 1961, Nottingham Playhouse in 1963, and Oxford Playhouse Company in April of 1964. Her wonderful stage performances took her to United States, Canada, and Yugoslavia and to Edinburgh Festival. Judi Dench appeared in a countless number of plays over the decades winning several awards. Her mere presence in plays drew large number of crowds to theaters.

Since her first role on the stage, Judi's heart always lay on the on-screen career and so began auditioning whenever she could. Finally, her tenacious efforts paid off in 1959. The versatile actress Judi Dench made her on-screen debut with a BBC made-for-television movie "Hilda Lessways". That was the beginning of her glorious career that spanned five decades of amazing performances on screen; and at 73, Judi Dench is still going strong with a couple of upcoming movies lying on the anvil at post-production level.

BAFTA winning movies like "Four in the Morning" {1965}, "Talking to a Stranger" {1966}, "A Fine Romance" {26 episodes: 1981-1984}, "A Room with a View" {1985}; Oscar winning film "Shakespeare in Love" {1998}, and Oscar nominated movies like "Mrs Brown" {1997}, "Chocolat" {2000}, "Iris" {2001}, "Mrs Henderson Presents" {2005}, and "Notes on a Scandal" {2006} are a few of the movies that speaks volumes for her acting skills. But it was in 1995 that Judi Dench became known throughout the world as the boss 'M' of James Bond 007. She first appeared as 'M' in "Golden Eye" in which Pierce Brosnan starred as James Bond. She has since played the role of 'M' - the head of the Foreign Intelligence wing of Her Majesty's Secret Service MI6 in a series of Bond movies like "Tomorrow Never Dies" {1997}, "The World Is Not Enough" {1999}, "Die Another Day" {2002} all Pierce Brosnan starrers, and Daniel Craig starrer "Casino Royale" {2006}, and "Quantum of Solace" {2008}. Judi Dench put up an impressive performance in the role of 'M' who is always at loggerheads with James Bond for his maverick ways.

Judi has also lent her voice for animated characters for video games and other narration works on screen.

Judi Dench married British actor Michael Williams on February 5th, 1971. After thirty years of happy marriage, Judi's husband Michael Williams left for heavenly abode on January 11th, 2001. They together have a daughter named Finty Williams

As a tribute to her great acting talents, BBC in 2007 released 'The Judi Dench Collection', DVDs of eight television dramas. Judi Dench has patronized several theaters such as 'Friends School Saffron Walden', 'The Leaveners', and Archway Theatre.

http://www.judidench.net/judi-dench-bio.php

AFRICAN PRIDE IN LEILA LOPES

2011-12-08T03:11:00.000-08:00

Miss Angola 2011 Leila Lopes !!!

IDEAL WITHIN A WOMAN

2011-12-07T13:27:00.000-08:00

JADA PEARL

“... deeply immersed in the quality of the features and the elements employed to create a Jada Pearl Creatress worked serenely under Moon’s light. Engrossed in the mind and the mind of her imagination, and intoxicated by her emotions, and Moon’s light the Creatress shared Jada Pearl’s design with the Creator. Creator mirrored an essence into the texture of this creation ne'er before seen in this world, and Jada Pearl began to take form, and the soul of her form was skillfully fashioned within the birth canal she needed to enter this Earth. Stone was made flesh; a woman’s flesh supple, durable, valuable and translucent when you were born.” - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

HOLLYWOOD IDEALS

2011-12-07T03:30:00.000-08:00

Hayden Panettiere, Debra Messing & Blake Lively in red gowns on red carpet @ Emmy awards

Hayden Panettiere

HOLLYWOOD IDEAL

2011-12-07T02:18:00.000-08:00

actress Hedy Lamarr in a scene of Sampson & Delilah !!!!

The Hedy Lamarr Foundation

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Hedy Lamarr

JESSICA SIMPSON

2011-12-06T02:29:00.000-08:00

Jessica Simpson, actress The Dukes of Hazzard

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