Lauren Bacall, she was...

Lauren Bacall. Her beauty grabbed something embedded in the loins that expelled whatever was unnecessary to fathom the depths she came from and drew upon in her life. This is a Photo by Jack Mitchell on Getty Images.

Lauren Bacall splendid in her way of pulling on the loins, the imagination...

photo by Jack Mitchell.

Lauren Bacall died at the age of 89 on August 12, 2014 without us ever meeting. Her being born September 16, 1924 perhaps has something to do with that disappointment. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/6/18

Look Beyond

Face of Precious Lady Eby.

There is a look into the soul a mere glance cannot uncover; meaning the length and depth of the breath-of-Life conveyed by touch adds to the powers of the perception beautiful women convey without speaking. It is an easy thing to create: illusion. It is a task to unmask illusions. Either way it takes work to create illusion, and work to unlearn the illusions governing our lives. There is a relationship between beauty and revelation, truth and deception. How all of these things come together in the face of one woman is a compliment to the brilliance of Creation. Learning from this is the work of one's spirit.

There is a lot in a face, the eyes. Interpreting what is seen is one soul beginning to understand the other... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/23/18 

Will You Give So Others Live?

Eartha Kitt lived from January 17, 1927 until December 25, 2008. 

During that lifetime she spoke out against the Vietnam War and was blackballed for a decade in the States. In your lifetime what will you stand for, die for, live for? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

Eartha Kitt spoke her negative views on the war in Vietnam at a White House luncheon, she was effectively blacklisted and didn't work in the States for fully a decade. "What will you stand for? Without that answer how do you live to die in the end? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Essentially. . .

Pregnant in the morning. photographer unknown. 

Pregnant. Titled: "Waiting New Life" by Jose Sanabria, who lives in Spain.

"The special sense of being important is in the essence of becoming a better man as a father, and more than ordinary becoming a mother for a woman. Translating from one sense of being is growth; growth is the substance that launched us into the realm of existence. It was Will, Intent, Purpose, and Substances that congregated to become..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/14/18 


Women's Portraits Only (WPO) 

To Know this Stage...

Bliss is a whisper upon the soul, a feeling in that region of the heart one sings from, into and because songs cannot begin to end here. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/11/18

Profound Look into Eyes

Dame Maggie Smith. 

Portrait of a Lady by Malgorzata Gruszka, a 2D 3D artist and illustrator.

Dame Maggie Smith, actress, (2007)!

Dame Maggie Smith

Drawing of Dame Maggie Smith.

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 

A Wonder, a Woman to Wonder about. . .

Jodi West, a woman to want.

Jodi West. Her maturity makes the long looks at her turn inward, one can suspect for profound reasons a man needs to know about, if he needs substance. An interesting thing to note: she is married and famous for her work in porn. How does she and her husband define maturity, marriage, and merging?... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/29/18

Walks, those walks, take to look.

"Walking at high noon as Yasmina Rossi did is different from any other time in arid places. The body interprets what it senses and shifts to make itself fit in the environment. Our spirits are like that." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/3/18

Walking on a beach along the shore of the Atlantic ocean, Yasmina Rossi, January 2017.

About This:

Debbie Allen, choreographer, actress and director of note.

"There will never be authentic women like these two women to teach Black girls to be ladies without Black ladies teaching them to be ladies. If this isn't a community concern be concern; no good thing comes from this indifference." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [march 22, 2018]

Diana Ross without makeup is as captivating as light from Moon to Water...

3 Forces being Women.

Lucy Liu at the press conference for the 2005 Reebok Human Rights Awards. 

Demi Moore shall remain a fixture in my thinking about solid ideas of expressing tough as a sensual woman in a man's industry. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.12.16

Diane von Furstenberg, daughter of a Belgian Holocaust survivor, became a princess when she married into German royalty in her early 20's. In her life she evolved into a major fashion designer and a fabulous beauty!!!!

See Woman

Gorgeously Nelly. by Roland Dawson. 2017. 

BEAUTY is MYSTERY.

Marisol Baez reclining within an elusive spirit of a beauty impossible to capture, but possible to praise and reflect upon. She is a Native woman (Taino) activist I met a couple months ago on Jay Winter Night Wolf's radio show about the march she was a part of. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Sept. 2016)

"There is an elusive spirit to beauty poets capture similar in a way photographers can engage the senses to see what can move very fast from a base sense of a woman into an electric change and challenge to the sense of where the lines lie between beauty and character. How this relates to power is beyond being able to show strength. Spirit within talks to its attributes in lovely or beautiful ways as the mystic may say, or Beauty embodies what Spirit needs to see within Creation. Either way it is a mystery how beauty is to beautiful what intelligence is to consciousness. Consciousness raised by the spirit of a woman is potent and able to subjugate the feeling of being overwhelmed when thinking takes place and one discovery is that 'seeing' is reflection." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (October 19, 2016)   

Dark Mystery, Sacred Sound

"Kim Kardashian's pregnancy is beautiful, breathtaking and as astonishing in black as any other woman overcome with the wonder of spiritual powers unleashed by new life in her body. No man can become a woman and have a woman's essence."

~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

September 26, 2016

Man is the potential of Life, woman the carrier of Life.

If this is true we come from the rivers of life meaning the waters we are borne from that carried us from our mother's womb to the waiting realm of our father's protection and parent's union is more than an ideal, it is a state of being! If we cannot respect this element fundamental to life and succumb to the notions of reality Euro-Americans and Europeans base their life structures upon from their brokenness who are we as a people of the other races upon the Earth, our Mother?

European domination is destruction and in the aftermath of the wars that determined our fates we are carriers and inheritors of brokenness that is evil, scared and difficult to exorcise from our essential cores. Accepting from the brokenness of the people from across the Atlantic is to misunderstand the significance of a subtle, rarely pointed out element.

Water has great powers to absorb dark elements unleashing transformative powers back into a body, a soul, a state of mind as a return. It is a cycle of reciprocation we first learn within our mother's wombs. As a ritual practice transformation is a natural occurrence of relationships with Water. Respecting Water's powers acknowledges the female principles that carry life from one place of land to another, from one state of being to another. Instead of this happening in the long ago, the whites were blind to this influence and crossed the waters with darkness and great evils abiding within their hearts and changed the world in the worst of ways known to a species. What came out of this was a spiritual paradigm previously unknown to life that killed its grandchildren to feed its children!

There is no concealing from Water. She sees everything, every element and every intent. How and why Water could not transform the darkness of the whites is an explored mysterious thing that has not transformed mankind or the white people. How it affected the whole of the planet is at its inevitable conclusion: the water wars of our generation. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.26.16




Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian

pan pipe of Fernando Hugo Barragán Sandi (Quechua), 2005–2007. Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Bamboo, yarn.

Photo by Ernest Amoroso, NMAI. (26/6552)

Descendants of the Inka today live in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Colombia. Many maintain Inka traditions in their languages, arts, celebrations and religion. Throughout the Andes, the spiritual world continues to pervade daily life, and rituals are performed to ask for blessing, protection and healing.

These panpipes, similar to those from Inka times, are still used in ceremonies and on long journeys. Learn more at NMAI's "The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire" or here: http://nmai.si.edu/inkaroad/index.html 

What We Fail to Grasp We Need.

The depths of desire a woman can conjure up verge on occult powers some assert who are unable to strengthen their manhood into impeccability or into an art form a woman needs to give herself to. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.16.16

Teach A Man, a Woman

A woman dreaming, a dream herself.

A woman dreaming, a dream herself is a breath of Life from someone's dream in Life. She is a wonder, a parallel mathematical equation of the pyramid's mystery. Knowing a woman to understand divinity is sacred work. What she means to a man becoming a better man needs to know he has access to these spiritual properties. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [May 31, 2017]

"The lovely forms shape our view, mold our perceptions of the formless wonder of a woman's essence..."

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.31.17 

Vulnerable to the elements is vulnerable of the soul shaped by Nature, as she is to the woman longing to birth and be birthed. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.31.17

Two Things to Ponder

Half Nakid

"Perfect beauty is something perfectly conveyed, or perceived beyond the measurements of most expectations." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Nov. 16, 2016 

Ownership is a concept of possession. Knowing one's being is not possession, it is a sacred place you cannot possess, but own. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11.28.16

BECOMING OLD.

Beautés Classiques

Raquel Welch's extraordinary way of being. photo by Michael Ochs.

Lauren Bacall's freshness...

Lauren Bacall's coolness communicates something lovely that, in fact, expresses the quietness in the roar of an overwhelming beauty that grew with age, and waned with acceptance into the last stage of life into something you enjoy, but don't know is really beautiful! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/16/17

Lauren Bacall in 2010.

Getting into Age.

Black American woman with gray hair.

Fine looking old woman.

Raquel Welch a dream when she was 36 yrs. old and later at 73 sizzling & fine !!!!

Vanessa Redgrave 76 & Meryl Streep 65

Perceptions of She.

"Innocence plays with men different than fools..."

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3.1.17

"Innocence doesn't play with fools they way it plays with men understanding the principles of right living, and right thinking about the way they govern their fires. It is an art being a man, and it is with artistry women poke and tantalize it out of men discovering themselves.." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3/2/17

Delicate beauty expresses a relationship with strength & forces within light that highlights the principle element of femininity that is special to the men who love women like Jennifer Nguyen! ~ Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Dance of the West African woman's body is intelligent knowing of.

Deep chocolate melts in your mouth softening to the touch of reverence.

"Dedicated to the appreciation of beauty in the special place of what is delicate about beauty is the place a cherished woman is most comfortable. . ."

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

March 2, 2017