From the Deep Place

Muhammad Ali and his younger brother Rahman Ali, with their grandmother provokes the thought of the loss in American life: the proper respect for the old, the wise old people, and the prospect of dying. It is embedded within Life to live, to die, and to profit from the benefits of Life, as a man, as a woman. What is wrong in the ideology of American life is the inherited disrespect for Life Europe peed into the souls of the Africans, and the First Nation's peoples! Undoing this is Sacred Work, and terrifying because it goes against what replaced who we are and were meant to become before 'they' came to kill, and take! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/20/19

Muhammad Ali and his younger brother Rahman Ali, with their grandmother...

To Think Anomgst Beauty

Gervel Jones-Sampson. Muse is Shesteddra. The question is 

"What is it going to cost you to become the truth of who you are?" 

Gervel Jones- Sampson, intriguing how you blended an intellectual struggle amongst and within countless Black American women in this one moment, and then asked a fundamental question: "What is it going to cost you to become the truth of who you are?" Age, wisdom, insight and deep knowledge of one's self is behind the cleverness of the riddle you've hidden in the obvious. Well done. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/07/18 

"A man needs a woman, and sometimes has to wait until she, and he have aged and matured to discover each other, in the deeper sense of being together!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

A riddle, a riddle for the soul's intellect: "Walking carefully as a woman is different from walking gracefully as a woman. A lady teaches this to a girl, a woman. It is a transformative walk that engages the soul, not a prance looking for meat." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10/7/18

Black Tape Project.

Black Tape Project. Andrea Cohen.

Beautiful women, who command are more easily misunderstood as being powerful because drawing attention to themselves by the force of their essence can be disguised as vanity, or self-absorption by any number of men, unable to see beyond need, or lust. It is distracting the illusion of Beauty, but enforced as a presence in the Medicine teachings; it becomes a tool, a shield, and a weapon!...

There is more, but this medium typically is over-populated by undeveloped people foreign to the esoteric or the way of the Warrioress distinct from the Warrior's Way. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/9/18

4 Black Women by Roland Dawson 

the Black Tape Project. Eriana Blanco.

Delve.

bold Black woman in yellow midi dress. 

Bold in the firmament of one's belief is best displayed in a form of beauty assessable to the easy part of being human. Capturing it, as a photographer, a musician, a poet, a healer, is an art form developed within the musician, the photographer, the poet, the healer and the person learning to become whole! Appreciation is a study of gratitude... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/10/18 

Cat Divine by Michael Enoches for and by Boudoir & Intimates by ME. (2017)

There is a gap here between two states of being a woman many are unable to navigate. Because the value of belief in the sacred is vague women can remain in the shadows of the art form of being feminine in essence. With the compromise made with homosexuality women, in the West, learned to equate freedom of expression with the right for men to intrude upon their distinct place in the balances of Life; not as life givers, but pretenders in a sacred role. Understanding of this has been forced to the fringes of modern life. Its exclusion feeds the disillusionment of the roles that engineered protection and balances to engage in the dance of existence as a whole, and guides the confusing violence from men towards women!

Because 'rights' are more important than truth all of these things make victims of this onslaught in American culture; many compromises have been made in the name of 'It is my right!' and unaware children waddle and wade in this confusion pretending to be the right way to be.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
April 10, 2018

Ceara Lynch humiliates men for a living. She started at 17.

Her dad thought she was a 'genius' when he learned how she was making money! Her words.

FOCUS two

Mirrors of one Sophia Loren. 

Mirrors we face: mirrors of self within and the mirror of ourselves in others reflect what we need to see, don't want to see, and pretend to see. It is all illusion. Water before mirrors did the same showing us how we looked, but water is the substance of mirrors fixated, but appearing not to move. The illusion in movement is stillness and the stillness moving undetected in movement is the illusion we hold within our contradictions. - Gregory E. Woods (Dawn Wolf) Keeper of Stories 4/5/18  

Some women's mystique is too hard to comprehend.

FOCUS: four

Sophia Loren in her later years. Fine as well as sophisticated with a freer sense of being a Lady. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Shohreh Aghdashloo's deep compelling beauty.

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.

The thought that, nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful, is a wonderful compliment. But, there is perception. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; yes? Well, perception of concepts changes belief systems, as well as altering the way a man looks at a woman, and the way a man looks into a woman gathers different fragments of what is the whole, or can become whole! These musings are in themselves alternative looks into the illusion of sound, of movement, of being and the how of changing from within to see within! This magic is the wonder of being flesh and blood, spirit and intelligence. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/5/18

"Sophia Loren's breasts were always there in a way that drew the eye to them, but restrained the mouth from comment. Only a lady could do that and a lady could not, or would not explain it to a man." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Sophistication of Sophia Loren

The way sophistication was depicted by certain women was part of the mystique women carried in the 20thCentury. It is hard to fathom, this essence, in a climate of judgment fearful of collective contradictions around one product: tobacco. Tobacco, cotton, human trafficking were three streams of wealth at the core of the United States. Their place in history is a story of how the colonists took sacred things and corrupted them for their benefit. The least an American citizen can do is get off their high horses and explore their roots intelligently. There is a stream that flows into the rivers that feed the oceans. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/5/18

Smoking outdoors. Sophia Loren.

Command subjugates, and releases!

Command from an authority. There are some commands in our relationships to be obeyed, and not questioned. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

TWO Mirrors

Poise, as softness 

"Poised, as softness. In the poem of a woman is a sound, a song to pay attention to. In essence, within the memory of who you are is the substance of belief, the lightness of knowing and the certainty of identity." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Intelligence has its way of settling disputes within bad intents and a prophetic quality concerning the soul of want! What do you do with yourself wanting a woman like her? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11/1/17 

Briana Brochu, a University of Hartford student who bragged

about her gross harassment of her Black roommate. 11/1/17

"Brianna Brochu, a white student who bragged about harassing her black roommate by rubbing used tampons on her bag, pouring moldy clam dip in her lotion and putting her toothbrush inside her rectum, has been arrested.

Brochu, a freshman at the University of Hartford, posted on Instagram about how she "finally got rid of her roommate," who she referred to as "Jamaican Barbie."

Tonight, the university confirmed they have arrested her, calling the reports "disturbing."

Chennel "Jazzy" Rowe, the freshman roommate of Brochu, revealed the shocking allegations in a Facebook video." - Michael Scipio

Teach in Life.

Who said those words? It is important to know. People's stories are important and to those needy the most, and those close to the person who reveals him or herself by word, and work; is a need to observe the trail that led to revelation!

For those curious: what led a person to discover within themselves this sense of self, and place in the worlds surrounding themselves:

"Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be!"

We may never know. What we will know is when we arrive at this state of being present within the great mysteries of this life! 

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
January 14, 2018

painting a picture. Ada Cottingham. 2017.

"... It is always the simple things that bring the greatest joys, the simplest pleasures and reveal, in the simplest of ways, how to live in wondrous ways! Ain't that something?" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1/14/18