the African Presence in She Woman.

African woman making assessments of her sense of being centered in this Ankara style of dress for a wedding...

face of Tyra Banks. 

African American women, like this one wearing an African print Dashiki maxi skirt with a high waist band, are fierce supporters of their men. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/6/18 

LIVE IN A SACRED W A Y DAILY

Buddhist painting

15 practical steps Thay says we can take to bring mindfulness to our work:

1. Start your day with 10 minutes of sitting in meditation.

2. Take the time to sit down and enjoy eating breakfast at home.

3. Remind yourself every day of your gratitude for being alive and having 24 brand-new hours to live....
 

4. Try not to divide your time into "my time" and "work." All time can be your own time if you stay in the present moment and keep in touch with what’s happening in your body and mind. There’s no reason why your time at work should be any less pleasant than your time anywhere else.
 

5. Resist the urge to make calls on your cell phone while on your way to and from work, or on your way to appointments. Allow yourself this time to just be with yourself, with nature and with the world around you.
 

6. Arrange a breathing area at work where you can go to calm down, stop and have a rest. Take regular breathing breaks to come back to your body and to bring your thoughts back to the present.
 

7. At lunchtime, eat only your food and not your fears or worries. Don’t eat lunch at your desk. Change environments. Go for a walk.
 

8. Make a ritual out of drinking your tea. Stop work and look deeply into your tea to see everything that went into making it: the clouds and the rain, the tea plantations and the workers harvesting the tea.
 

9. Before going to a meeting, visualize someone very peaceful, mindful and skillful being with you. Take refuge in this person to help stay calm and peaceful.
 

10. If you feel anger or irritation, refrain from saying or doing anything straight away. Come back to your breathing and follow your in- and out-breath until you’ve calmed down.
 

11. Practice looking at your boss, your superiors, your colleagues or your subordinates as your allies and not as your enemies. Recognize that working collaboratively brings more satisfaction and joy than working alone. Know that the success and happiness of everyone is your own success.
 

12. Express your gratitude and appreciation to your colleagues regularly for their positive qualities. This will transform the whole work environment, making it much more harmonious and pleasant for everyone.
 

13. Try to relax and restore yourself before going home so you don’t bring accumulated negative energy or frustration home with you.
 

14. Take some time to relax and come back to yourself when you get home before starting on household chores. Recognize that multitasking means you’re never fully present for any one thing. Do one thing at a time and give it your full attention.
 

15. At the end of the day, keep a journal of all the good things that happened in your day. Water your seeds of joy and gratitude regularly so they can grow.

- Thich Nhat Hanh
"15 Practical Ways To Find Your Zen At Work", The Huffington Post.



Buddha within Tyra Banks

 

Breasts, Titties, Nurture



Tyra Banks holding her ample breasts 

There is an engaging and troubling argument amongst women about breasts, decency and breastfeeding public. On one side women and men are disgusted with women who breast feed in public. They believe it is obscene, offensive visually and bad manners. On the other side the proponents for breastfeeding in public plead for respect and acknowledge the naturalness of feeding babies by breasts. Older people, like me, remember how international companies spread their propaganda across cultural landscapes of  Third World countries, and sold powdered milk to poor women convincing them powdered milk was better. Sadly, thousands diluted the powder for reasons not based on science, but survival logic. 

 

Hundreds of babies got sick or died as a result of the international rush and push to undermine the central role of motherhood and replace it with a profitable pretense: powdered milk. Many mothers could not read the instructions and being frugal many skimped, or under mixed the portions of water and powder and babies became ill.

Beneath it all a question looms: why is this an emotionally charged issue?

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 9, 2016

Kim Kardashian's full breasts floating on water

IN Red & White !

Karrueche Tran wearing a red romper by Kimi Kouture.

Tyra Banks opened her gown ....

 

Creative Artists

Keri Lynn Hilson (born 27 October 1982) is an American R&B singer and songwriter signed to
Zone 4, Mosley Music Group and Interscope Records. !!!!



Tyra Banks' mother, Carolyn (née London), was a fashion manager and NASA photographer, and her father Donald Banks, a computer consultant. How could she not have a firm foundation?

Maria Brink is an alternative to standard beauty, and co-founder of the heavy metal band, In This Moment.

 

What Girls Need To Know !!



elegant mysterious presence of a British woman !!!!
May 11, 2015

 

 

 "There is an ageless quality to elegance that does not stand by itself, nor feel regret holding a standard not subjugated to the fears of aging. If a woman decides to show herself unwilling to be a consumer of an outside concept of aging she doesn't take a risk. Being part of a natural process is an honoring spirit guided by forces embracing the 'who' of our essence and the source of our creativity in the inevitable process of aging and maturing is the substance of Knowing! . . ."

- Gregory E. Woods,

Keeper of Stories

 (Nov. 24, 2015)

Tyra Banks said her one regret is that sometimes in her past,
her drive to succeed has been so strong,
she hasn't been so obsessed with her personal life.

 

FINE

Plus Size Model Sandy Dietrich

absolutely beautiful breasts & body of Tyra Banks

a Powerful Woman



Tyra Banks poised & aloof !!!!

 

Greet The Day!

Tyra Banks enjoying herself

 

Awaking to greet the day
Like the flowers opening
Blessed day
The sun peeks to kiss
The world
Awaken the steps of our journey
The air filled with sounds around
Given thought to the day with a smile
Sweet and savory like a child
Lets all walk hand in hand those miles
Being kind with true caring heart
For our world we live in can be dark

 

Written by Donna L Hughes
JUNE 2, 2015

Cameroonian model Amanda E Fathel by William Nsai

 

The Plight of the CRUDE

There is a site on Facebook that calls itself Gangstas and Hoes. They have the imagery of the 'nigger' mentality and the nerve to put Tyra Banks in their picture galleries. It is incredulous on the surface, but it is consistent with the mentality of the weak minded trying to affirm something noteworthy into the dust of the crude elements they are incapable of ascending from. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.11.13

a Style of a Mogul

Let's Talk Universal Spirituality! 

Religion is Sexual…The Christian religion begins with a virgin who gets pregnant, outside of marriage, something the religion itself dogmatically forbids. Merry Christmas!

From the huge child molestation scandal that has racked the Catholic church to sex scandals by Protestant preachers from Jimmy Swaggart to Ted Haggard (former president of the National Association of Evangelicals and a former ORU college mate of mine), it seems that more than ever, the story of sexuality and Christianity has become a case of “Do as I say, not as I do.” Why the proliferation of sexual misbehavior among “holiness people,” and especially among ministers?

The Reality show, "LA Preachers" has raised the subject of sex, "sin" humanity and indeed reality in a way that has people considerably interested in discussing the delicate subject anew.

In religious circles, human sexuality, especially homosexuality is a profoundly delicate and passionately avoided taboo. Christian religion is subtly built around sexuality and sexism. After all, it begins with God supposedly impregnating a teenage virgin already pledged to, presumably a much older man. You would think God would have chosen an uncommitted, slightly older woman.

From the outset of our cherished religion, the God we are taught to revere and worship, all but breaks up a home and commits a form of adultery. Adultery is one of the foremost sins banned by the Ten Commandments, so is this an act of holy hypocrisy? If so, it was perhaps the First Hypocrisy in a landscape littered with faith leaders and “fathers” who professed sexual purity in public only to engage in lewd and lascivious acts behind closed doors…until they were found out.

Christian theology teaches that Jesus bore our sins, actually becoming sin while not necessarily sinning, and yet the Holy Spirit is said to have impregnated Mary while she was betrothed to another man. How this actually took place remains a mystery we are expected to accept by faith. We can either assume it to have been “spiritual insemination” or that somehow the third member of the Trinity actually had physical intimacy with a 12, or 13 year old girl. Today, that would be considered statutory rape. The Holy Spirit would have to be arrested and prosecuted for such a crime. The thought seems preposterous indeed. Imagine the prep walk, the plea, the press conference: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Mary…” And then we wonder why our subculture has such a preoccupation—a forbidden yet irresistible fascination—with sexuality and the sexual act. It’s not a mystery. The Christian religion begins with a sex act that we have spiritualized and sanctified as holy and even wholesome. Our salvation is tied to it.

Christianity, like most religions, is a fertility religion founded on the idea of the sacredness of life, beginning with its procreation and followed by its consecration and preservation. Fertility religions emphasize the importance of life and its origins, beginning with human genesis, (genetics) sexual or spiritual. Both were revered as the beginnings of life. From the start of the human race there has been a preoccupation with how we got here and where we go when we leave. Since life comes through male and female conjugal relations, our first reverence and forms of worship revolved around sex and its attributes.

We are taught that we Christians are God’s spiritual seed and that we should be randomly scattered over the planet in order to extend God’s family on earth. Millions, particularly our Catholic family, even call Christ the Immaculate Conception. And even though Mary had at least six more children (presumably by Joseph), she is still revered and worshiped as a Virgin. Did her many sexual acts with her husband in later years simply not count, or would we rather ignore them? Our entire Christmas holiday (holy day) revolves around a pregnant virgin chosen by God to be the mother of Christ if not of Christianity itself. Are we missing something here?

-  Carlton Pearson dec. 14, 2013

Tyra Banks in a gown in shadow

Mother's protest 

PURITY OF BLACK

Ghanaian Model, Soraya Khalil

Tyra Banks, model, business woman, & Creatress

GROWTH of PERCEPTION

Tyra Banks, entrepreneur, former model & TV host

"...thighs of Tyra Banks peep out from a mystery into the consciousness of the widest audience: the whole world. It is inconceivable to grasp the feeling a Tyra Banks must have displaying her life, and body before cameras with an audience so wide! A regular person exposed to small circles of influence has a sense of what it is like by thinking about it, but experiencing it is reserved for a few, a very select few to experience.

What was done to make these few famous? What was lived in past lives? These are important questions to consider, but not in the context of how to become famous. Fame is such a trivial pursuit. It mocks intelligence the seeking fame. Why? Because the search often, in this culture, of the baser things of life leads to where lurks nefarious characters who need to feed off of trivia, the vain, the empty." - Gregory E. Woods

BEAUTY: two stories of

Ukraine beauty on sofa

Tyra Banks, model & business woman

http://www.slicklegs.com/ 

Celebrated Beauty

Tyra Banks

actress annabella sciorra

http://www.spicycelebrities.com/redirect.html 

What do you think?

"Somewhere there's a place holding something, concealing someone, holding your fate, but only waiting for the time." -anon

 

Tyra Banks 3

"A dream doesn't become a reality through magic: it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."

-General Collin Powell

Tyra Banks in August 2009

absolute beauty of TYRA BANKS

TYRA BANKS

'The ones who open doors and cross bridges first are often, in time, forgotten by those who lacked the courage to be first.  Dismissed they are by lesser souls who need so desperately to appear to be bold risk takers.  Lesser souls can become mean sometimes lacking in grace, and bereft of style they brag where they should not boast, and declare when they should be studying the path laid out by the Pathfinder who is far ahead on another quest a lesser soul dare not dream." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories