Royalty has its way of expressing itself outside the vernacular of Europe with profound dignity and the lightness of play with the essential elements of spirituality, in the context of what is ancient about African traditions. This is far away from the pretense of British royalty, which does not repent playing its game, as if its evil has nothing to do with its stench, its practiced cruelty and the Arabic terror attacks in Europe and the U.S.! This kind of denial is unique among apex predators. It is a blindness protected by fear: fear they created and sustained in others, and by the techniques that employ servitude with gratitude colored by fears of 'them'!
This is a language whites, for hundreds of years, have refused to acknowledge but know; didn't want to accept, but outlawed taking humanity from other people they don't respect. That's a puzzle? Imagine being the grandchild of an ex-slave negotiating a life among masters of terror, who claim not to be the terror they generate!
Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
September 3, 2018
Darla Crane by her own admission, a MILF, loves what she can do with her body, and what she can do to a man, and excite within men! In and of itself that is an achievement!... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/19/18
Darla Crane opens the mind to the skepticism of being faithful to one... Caving into that suggestion is the assumption one can come back from falling into what she offers, and is saying truthfully!... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/19/18
Darla Crane is essentially a beautiful woman pale against the dark form fitting dress. The shape of her body has a feel one can slumber into, but without definition of character what is the fate of a man in a whore? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [may 19. 2018]
Darla Crane has her appeal. Beneath her clothes already revealing is a force under her control. How a man measures this force is his force of will and integrity of intent. Alas, an ordinary man is just that! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [may 19. 2018]
Stormy Daniels has the most powerful force upon the Earth, our Mother! In all of Creation even the strongest will struggles not to give in... What could a man without integrity have done different? -Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/11/18
Stormy Daniels, adult actress and director, seated in the spotlight!
Married mother of 3 boys, 5,2 and 1 years old. Tiffany Hidey's husband gave her permission to post a photo of herself, in blue panties, a short dark A-shirt with a clear view of what she offers to her husband, without crossing the line of decency making her appear sluttish, but alluring; because she doubts her physical appeal to others despite what others say.
There are a lot of women like this.
In the Western world, as I've noted before, women bask in showing their bodies off, and advocating for equality, and finally have more courage to stand against the sexual misconduct of men reigning over their lives in every possible sphere! But, the questions to esteem returns to the body, the physical body displayed as a boast to personal confidence in private groups online (which aren't really private) displayed online frequently in many areas, or most telling in their everyday lives at work, church, parks, etc.!
Is it a fault, or are men at fault; meaning patriarchies are in question, to be questioned intelligently?
Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories January 30, 2018
"...When we are acting from our Integrity, what we could call our authentic self, we don’t try. We don’t’ have a need to try. We just take action. We don’t concern ourselves with whether what we are doing is the right thing. We also don’t have a need to justify or defend what we are doing to anybody. This includes ourselves. The action comes from the heart and is with love, that is how we know it is true. It also comes with humility because we are acting on behalf of love and not for ourselves or a sense of righteousness. Emotional integrity Words don’t corrupt this authenticity with chatter in the mind...." by Gary van Warmerdam
nude study of a work of Art by Kat Attack Photograph. (2013)
Definition of Integrity: the quality or state of being complete, undivided: spiritual, or aesthetic wholeness: organic unity: completeness.
It is a simple thing, wholeness that is undivided. It is also a very elusive quality. Emotional Integrity is having our heart, mind and will unified. When we are in our emotional integrity we can act without hesitation or doubt. The phrase of, “my mind says one thing, but my heart says another”, may be all too common in our lives. When this happens our will is divided and our actions hesitate with conflict of doubt in the mind and emotions.
When we live our lives from a place of Integrity we do not doubt ourselves. There is no second-guessing our actions or our words. Sometimes I see people try to superimpose a sense of integrity into their decisions by refusing to consider a second opinion. This can be the pretense of integrity in the name of not appearing weak or not living up to our own image of what we believe we should be. This is the ego’s version of integrity. The mind has the desire to believe that everything we do is in our integrity. Often we work very hard to make ourselves believe it we have integrity. But, it is a false image of integrity. If we have to convince ourselves that we are acting in our integrity, we are likely to be wrong. When we are in our integrity, our mind does not have to tell us what we are doing is right. The heart and will know and the mind follows without a doubt. Real emotional integrity doesn’t come with a sense of being right. It comes with a feeling of love. . . by Gary van Warmerdam
Martin Luther King's deep words of challenge to cowardice.
PERSONALLY pause to pay homage to a man courageous enough never to let his spirit die though his life was under constant threat. His sacrifice was the ultimate; his message was timeless. I think of him as the original drum major of love. Misunderstood. Maligned. Mistreated. He was just one of many deserving of equal honor who's names we may or may not ever know. But on this day where we celebrate his birth, I PERSONALLY pause to honor him and symbolically pay the same honor to the millions of others like him who will never get a holiday of their own though they also made the ultimate sacrifice. It is because of them all that I am even here - a humbling thought by itself. So though a few words offered in social media is woefully inadequate to express what I'm truly feeling, it's something my heart compels me to do. So for him and all those like him who chose spirit over life and made it possible for me to be . . . I sincerely, humbly, from the depth of my whole soul say 'thank you'. - Eden Adele, Jan. 16, 2017
Audrey Bitoni is a woman first, and a series of speculation to follow the designs of a man's intentions towards her! Before sex a man must think deeply from his sacred spot. Without one he is a mere brute. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories
Audrey Bitoni is a woman you may wonder about, but if being a porn actress is not the same as a whore, or a woman is a woman then do the elements of her soul loss become part of you upon entry into her body? It is a question to be answered, if asked; concern may follow, or indifference may be the call of the moment. It is all a series of choices made before entry, and the opportunity. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/13/17
vintage magazine feature of Constance Hatton in bikini
"Seductive moments rain upon common sense, practicality and good intentions. It is a pleasure being seduced and a challenge to reason your way out with no moral compass and a challenge to walk away when it goes against a warrior code. It is a game of chance for some men to resist the wrong woman in the right setting with the right combination of things. It is also a chance to prove the strength of commitments to higher energies, if a man is so inclined to walk that path of integrity."
To the First Lady, With Love: Four thank-you notes to Michelle Obama, who has spent the past eight years quietly and confidently changing the course of American history.
By CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, GLORIA STEINEM, JON MEACHAM and RASHIDA JONES
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:
She had rhythm, a flow and swerve, hands slicing air, body weight moving from foot to foot, a beautiful rhythm. In anything else but a black American body, it would have been contrived. The three-quarter sleeves of her teal dress announced its appropriateness, as did her matching brooch. But the cut of the dress scorned any “future first lady” stuffiness; it hung easy on her, as effortless as her animation. And a brooch, Old World style accessory, yes, but hers was big and ebulliently shaped and perched center on her chest. Michelle Obama was speaking. It was the 2008 Democratic National Convention. My anxiety rose and swirled, watching and willing her to be as close to perfection as possible, not for me, because I was already a believer, but for the swaths of America that would rather she stumbled.
She first appeared in the public consciousness, all common sense and mordant humor, at ease in her skin. She had the air of a woman who could balance a checkbook, and who knew a good deal when she saw it, and who would tell off whomever needed telling off. She was tall and sure and stylish. She was reluctant to be first lady, and did not hide her reluctance beneath platitudes. She seemed not so much unique as true. She sharpened her husband’s then-hazy form, made him solid, more than just a dream.
But she had to flatten herself to better fit the mold of first lady. At the law firm where they met before love felled them, she had been her husband’s mentor; they seemed to be truly friends, partners, equals in a modern marriage in a new American century. Yet voters and observers, wide strips of America, wanted her to conform and defer, to cleanse her tongue of wit and barb. When she spoke of his bad morning-breath, a quirky and humanizing detail, she was accused of emasculating him.
Because she said what she thought, and because she smiled only when she felt like smiling, and not constantly and vacuously, America’s cheapest caricature was cast on her: the Angry Black Woman. Women, in general, are not permitted anger — but from black American women, there is an added expectation of interminable gratitude, the closer to groveling the better, as though their citizenship is a phenomenon that they cannot take for granted.
Bike chick astride a black motorcycle in black herself. January 30 , 2014
There is a tax on the soul taking, or giving into the temptation that vexes your spirit, and enchants every other senseof indecency. The apostle Paul addressed this issue saying "..For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.." The words he wrote before that to the church in Rome at the time, "...For that which I do I allow not: for what I would do I do not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not." speaks directly to a real and perpetual dilemma felt by us all. It may sound like a rolling down the hill play with words, but the rhythm of the speech talks to the complexity of our emotions and touches the tenuous line between what we know to do, and yearn to do against what is best for us.
Paul was talking about that internal struggle that looks slightly familiar, yet is different because we are all different from each other's base elements, core values, and needs. We are structured to perform certain tasks in each lifetime, and some are only designed to live and perform in one lifetime of physical manifestation. Others, like myself, need to work during the lifetimes to evolve, and change in spite of how painful it sometimes is painful to the mind, the body (when lust is involved), or the spirit-of-who-you-are when integrity and trust are challenged.
"One of the problems with today's young Black activists is what they don't know and their lack of intellectual discipline to match their righteousness. Going public on important issues concerning Black lives has to be led and followed by people steeped in facts, truth and understanding of the contradictions of Black lives and white/Black relationships from a high and complex level. Without the ears to learn, and the inclination to listen to Ancestors and wise Elders or the words of powerful agitators, like President Clinton, today's young Black activists weaken their positions losing public support because emotional hysteria does not replace informed confrontation.
Black lives matter, but Black activist's, and protestor's intelligence has to be developed to higher levels of consciousness to be respected and considered by those opposed to the Black liberation movements of the early 21st century!
Further, Mr. Clinton in his short dissertation poked ever so slightly at a major flaw in Black consciousness that has harmed and retarded the relationships between Black Americans and Africans living in the continent. Black Americans deplore their African roots, and flaunt this character flaw unknowingly and to their detriment for all to see, examine and ridicule. This was a large flaw during the Civil Rights movement whites took notice of, and have kept silent on the public stage for good, well thought out reasons.
Until Black Americans become African-Americans the chances of true liberation will always remain aloof, and white Americans will continue to snicker under their breath about our insistence to be consistent in our inconsistencies!"
"As a woman, Anri Sugihara, a Japanese model, questions in a moment with what is innocent within her the integrity of a man looking upon her. It is what women do constantly irregardless of their profession. A man, at some point in his development, has to ask fundamental questions of his existence to himself in the presence of what women give to his sense of manhood, and masculinity. Women do this often without us being aware of it, and if aware it is more poignant a moment because of the tension it creates within the paradigm of want and need. It is a dynamic thing being engulfed by the forces of Nature that live alongside, and within us as a divine force and a profane force. This contradiction makes and shapes integrity and is the scribe of our ethics." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.9.14
"What is innocent? What is pure? What is safe in your presence? These are three of the questions a man needs teach a boy to ask of himself." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1.9.14
Black man laying between his woman's legs relaxed.
"Society tells black men to always be hard never show emotions and sometimes we don't realize who its hurting and that is our women. Any black man that has no problem showing his affections for his lady will tell you its not that we wanna have sex its just fact that we wanna be near our lady whether her having her legs wrapped around us or us resting our heads in between her legs. We need a woman's energy to keep going in life!"
Robert Earl Jones, father of James Earl Jones, appeared in Oscar Michaeux films, on Broadway and with Robert Redford in The Sting. In the 1930s, he was a boxer and the sparring partner of Joe Louis. Blacklisted in the 1950s, he appeared in an uncredited role as the club employee who offers Harry Belafonte a “piece of iron” in the 1959 film noir Odds Against Tomorrow.
Te'Reisha, judicial law clerk in San Francisco, CA passed the bar Nov.20, 2015.
Her hopes her passage of the bar gives hope to the hopeless in her community in Richmond, CA.
How painful is the preaching of the fortunate to the heart of the miserable! And how severe is the strong when he stands as advisor among the weak! - Kahlil Gibran, mystical poet
My poor friend, if you only knew that the Poverty which causes you so much wretchedness is the very thing that reveals the knowledge of Justice and the understanding of Life, you would be contented with your lot.
I say knowledge of Justice: for the rich man is too busy amassing wealth to seek this knowledge.
And I say understanding of Life: for the strong man is too eager in his pursuit of power and glory to keep to the straight path of truth.
Rejoice then, my poor friend, for you are the mouth of Justice and the book of Life. Be content, for you are the source of virtue in those who rule over you and the pillar of integrity of those who guide you.
Barbara Herbert, Mildred Smith and Joan Berry
on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Barbara Herbert, Mildred Smith and Joan Berry on Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Herbert (Left), Smith (Center), and Berry (Right) posed on Chicken Bone Beach. Chicken Bone Beach was the segregated section for African Americans on Atlantic City's beach area. Between 1900 and the early 1950s, African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Avenue Beach Area. Since many vacationing Black families arrived with chicken-laden hampers, the strip became affectionately named "Chicken Bone Beach." Circa. 1940's
1950's bathing beauties on Chicken Bone beach. Mrs. Edith Green (l.) !!!!
Four African American women and a young boy posing on Chicken Bone Beach. Between 1900 and the early 1950s, African Americans were socially restricted to use the Missouri Avenue Beach Area. Since many vacationing Black families arrived with chicken-laden hampers, the strip became affectionately named “Chicken Bone Beach.” Circa. 1950s Photo Credit: The Temple University Urban Archives
The women on the left is Mrs. Edith Green. I believe Mrs. Green is still living and still looks fantastic. We attended the same church; St. Augustine of Atlantic City. I believe this is Missouri avenue Beach affectionately called by some the "Chickenbone Beach" - William Demones9/2/15
1960's bathing beauties
I remember this era. Negro women wore elegance and any education they had close to their composure. It was a defense for the times. It controlled men's action and dictated behavior for younger women and let each woman live up to their family names. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/2/15
