Riddles in the Heart Songs

The Puritan ethic does not acknowledge the legitimacy of the type of men with the full capacity to hold two families together lovingly from a deep capacity to understand how! These men have to live deceptively, for the most part. The argument for this type of lifestyle is just that: an argument! The understanding of this tendency is from a worldwide history...


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
[Sept. 24, 2018]



Heartbroken mother reveals how her marriage collapsed

by Natalie Corner For Mailonline 

A mother-to-twins has revealed how she discovered that her husband had been living a double lifeafter finding his secret Father's Day card from his love child. 

Belinda, from Australia, was left heartbroken when she discovered the card from 'Nate' stashed away in a book on her husband Eddie's nightstand.

Confronting Eddie, Belinda soon learned Nate was in fact Eddie's son with his partner of ten years, Natasha, and that she was the 'other woman'.

Recalling the bombshell that ended their marriage to Whimn Belinda explained how she may never had discovered the truth had she not found the book. 

'I found it, tucked into the pages of a novel in the drawer: a Father's Day card, written in blue text in a child’s scrawl: "To Daddy, happy Father's Day, love from Nate".'

Belinda told of how she met Eddie on a dating app and quickly fell in love getting married a year later.

Eddie had a high-pressure job in the oil industry which meant he was away for eight days at a time then home for six days, which Belinda was happy with.

She compared their relationship to a 'holiday romance' and said they never tired of one another and hardly argued.

After she had their two daughters, Belinda said she found life difficult without Eddie around and he even offered to quit his job and find something local.

Belinda told him not to and their life continued for another two years but then she was forced to confront her husband after finding the card.

But when she asked who 'Nate' was Belinda recalled his quick confession, explaining that he had another family in another city who he visited when he was supposed to be working. 

She continued: 'The most horrible idea I’d been able to come up with was that he had had an affair and was hiding a love child from me, but it was much worse than that. It turned out I was the affair.'

Eddie explained to Belinda how he had been with Natasha for over a decade and managed to juggle both family lives using his job as a cover.

The mother-of-two said she begged him to stay at the house they had bought together but he decided to leave and return back to Natasha. 

Though Belinda is attempting to move on, she did inform Natasha of Eddie's infidelity, and Natasha is understood to have now left him too. 

NEW KNOWLEDGE

Ana Luisa Paredes Lara
March 2, 2013

ADULTERY or DESPERATE WANT?

“Blessings Brother Gregory, I liked the comment you posted on my foto. Obrigada! Now can you clarify this question I have. I have always asked myself or some others this and don't quite understand it fully. Please tell me, if I may ask,” Why is it that there are so many Women/Men (more so the feminine energy) out there that wait to find a man/woman that is happily in a relationship and instead of blessing the l o v e they choose to ''pounce' on a man/woman?

Why try to wreck instead of bless? In this age of "open" relationships and polygamy, I would like to say not everyone are into the cycle of polygamy and when one discovers happiness in a union why not celebrate instead of hate? lol....It is truly unfortunate that these kind of energies flow mostly amongst the females. ALL the "talk" about sisterhood and Women's rights...really is it selective? Sigh, I pray for more integrity and unity amongst Women. More love with an exceptional heart all nurtured by i n t e g r i t y and truth. Once again, thank you for your comment.” – Coco Rosario

Kym Kymberly

 “From an idealistic youth to the now I've seen, marveled and wondered about the phenomenon. The day after I married my first wife Renee said, “Women who never spoke to you are gonna come after you.”

“No.” I couldn't believe it. I wouldn't believe it. It went against the grain I measured against.

I was sheltered in some respects in my upbringing. Not only did my parents skillfully shield me from the ravages of Jim Crow I had the kind of purity that comes from a childhood of prayer, play, mischief, care, and a shield of protection I thought was the norm that allowed me to explore and explore and explore. I was a novice to the frailties of human nature, and how fragile ideals were in the face and the body of the presence of a woman full of needs, and desires, and powers as strong, if not stronger than Mother Nature herself.

I’d lost my virginity in my 20’s because of my training, and initiations into the mysteries of celibacy, and sexuality at 14 years of age. It marked me distinguishing me in ways that took decades to unravel. This isn't a boast. It is necessary background to understand my answers to the questions adultery creates.

It is the existence of truth that makes the lies of adulteries plausible, or horrifying. Adultery for both parties creates a dynamic dichotomy that is difficult to unwrap if one is a married Priest-Warrior, or a Sacred Woman in bed with another mate. I say mate because people of that calibre have a grasp upon things that rival the thinking of people dominated with predatory lust. Theirs is an alternate reality with a set of responsibilities I won’t speak of it on Facebook. Although, I suspect I might have already during my tenure on this medium.

There is an infantile need that comes up in the best of people when sexually aroused. Seen in the opposite sex it is desirable. The sexual dynamics and the bittersweet and intangible pull between men and women is the stuff, the fabric, the dynamic light that engages and captivates us all. The Puritan’s influence upon Western Christianity, and the cultural shame attached to sex we've all inherited shadows our spirits, our thinking, our bodies, our urges, and our need for sex, intimacy, sexual release, and as Marvin Gaye sang it in his song, Sexual Healing. Outside of animal attraction sexual release is expansion. But how can anything about sex be outside of animal attraction?

The great warrior, Morihei Ueshiba died in 1969. He was 83 years old. At 80 years old this master could disarm any foe, down any number of attackers, and pin an opponent with a single finger. He was a man of peace who detested fighting, and war. Morihei Ueshiba was the founder of Aikido. In his life he received three (3) visions that transformed him, and the world. He also said, “Eight (8) forces sustain creation: movement and stillness, solidification and fluidity, extension and contraction, unification and division.”

This visual is what we are born into as creative beings. We are born sensitive to the intangible fabric of what breathes into the world, what holds the world(s) together, and activates change, karma, instinct, excitement, knowing, and knowledge! On one level, which is primal, is the body speaking to another body. It cannot be stopped the communications between bodies. It occurs often into old age.What can be controlled is a person's spirit. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2013

Ana Luisa Paredes Lara
Feb. 4, 2013

brown sista's dilemma

brown sistas disappointment

brown sistas playful face

Black American women face a stiff challenge to their lives, dreams, aspirations, and the core of their being. People, all of us, are identified by the idea of ourselves we convey in our daily lives. The indicators are silent and overheard. The songs Black American women project into the body of knowledge of songs isn't in harmony with the condition of their collective souls, or the possessive beauty that appeals to Black men. Bound by traditions of survival the potency of the dare to be different than a granddaughter of an ex-slave is weakened by the chains committed to the stale mate they often find themselves yoked to. These facts of life for millions of Black American women lead to a short list of why questions answered best and most painfully by many an African man from the Mother Land.

As I have learned from Old Man African men enjoy dating Black women, but often seek their wives from their own tribes because Black American women are trained to be mistresses, not wives. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4.28.13

Jan. 30, 2011
Tina Lewis-Nowak

from the spilled seed. . . .

Robert Ricci Pin-Up Paintings

Robert Ricci's art
May 26, 2013

"Relationships with, and intrusions from the whites scorned the traditions they trod upon, and created many things unexpected. For hundreds of years this trail of tears and terror has been a creative and destructive form seen worst and clearly within the women of the Red and The Black Peoples. It is in this art. If one knows these stories it is clear. If not it appears to be only speculation and backlash." - Gregory E. Woods, 9.13.13

bald headed Black woman on book cover

JESUS & Latter Day Christians

There is more. There is something else. Jesus unlike latter day Christians was an initiated man. He had two languages, two realms of duty, existence and understandings common people would not grasp. In his walk it was more than his 'anointing'. It was what he was initiated into, and his esoteric knowledge that could not find a container amongst the crude elements of people following him then and later into the centuries.

Since his death followers of Jesus have not studied, nor have they been led to study what Jesus studied. It renders his words into misunderstandings that would not exist if the thrust of the Jews who were politically sanctioned by Constantine did not make it their task to separate themselves from their progenitor religious base, and the churches of Europe had a different spirit and mindset. - Gregory E. Woods 9.4.13






The City of Gotham

~ Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley - Poison Ivy
August 31, 2013

"Prophet Ibrahim (AS) had 2 wives: Sara and Hajar. Both were loved by Allah and both the mothers of prophets, but both very different with very different lives...which would you rather be/be like? Why? and think, not just on an intellectual level, but on a real day-to-day life circumstances mental/spiritual/physical reality and be honest." - Safiyyah Abdullah 9.4.13

A F F I N I T Y

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created in years or even generations." - Kahlil Gibran

Sunset Martini

Polygamous Marriage

MULTIPLE MARRIAGE


“I watched an interview on the Regis & Kathy show today. I think I got the name right. They talked with the authors of a book: "Love Times Three: our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage" by Joe, Alima, Vickie & Valerie Darger.

Joe Darger is married to Alima, Vickie and Valerie. They live in Utah. Vickie and Alima have been married to Joe for 20 years, and in 2000 they asked their husband to consider marrying Vicki’s twin sister who had 5 children from a previous marriage. He did. This marriage added five children to the 7 that Joe and Alima had, and 8 to the union of Vicki and Joe, and dig this: Joe andValerie had 4 children together! That is 24 children!

I looked at their faces, and saw the deep satisfaction, the solidness of their lives together, and a host of questions rose to the surface. One of the obvious things I noticed struck me. Their unions developed a deeper sense of togetherness. The concept, and the action of these marriages under one roof developed a discipline unlikely to easily show up in too many mongamus marriages. This is a white family I might add, but their stories tied me into the marriages of the patriarchs of the Hebrew peoples, the Arabs I met, as a young man, in Morocco, and other countries, and the very few in the African spiritual community in Washington DC.

As Christians we aren’t allowed to publicly speak of the connections, but in societies outside of the Western tradition everything of life, including religion, spirituality, diet, sex, etc. are encircled within the family dynamics of plural marriages, and crucial to the state of those marriages, and the well-being of the children is the sanity of the adults….” - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

The book: http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Love-Times-Three/?isbn=9780062074041
Excerpts: http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780062074041