STOP. PAUSE. REFLECT.

Meditation 

Me:
When thoughts rise in the mind don't cling to them, just observe it, and come back to the breath.

Student:
Why?

Me:
What you give your attention to, grows.

-Ra Naman El

Chadra Pittman photographed by 

Bill Thomas of Thirdiimage Event and Location Portrait Photographer.

Indian photographer, TANVIR KHAN.

Quiet in stillness. photo by Tanvir Khan.

"There is a quiet in stillness. Knowing the difference in quiet listen..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/4/18 

5 Indian women. Saira Akther Jahan (2nd l.), Simmi Tabassum Taspia (next to her), a breathtaking beauty, and Naaz Khan lastly completing five. photographer, Tanvir Khan. Oct. 2018.

Social commentary by photographer, Tanvir Khan. 

Model, Cindy Mim, graphics by Novel Rahman. October 2018.

Calm and Clarity.

Élite Portraiture

Photographer Cristina Tiurean took this photo of Matilde Bertoli for Élite Portraiture. [August 2018]

In Italian, "Coltiva tenerezza e dolcezza come fossero fiori rari
e un giorno per ringraziarti, ti restituiranno profumo." 

" Grow tenderness and sweetness as they were rare flowers
And one day to thank you, they will give you back perfume."  ~ Luisa Barbosa 

Mere, Mama, Mothers

Rosa Brighid composed and still in a simple setting. 

Opulence and how it feels is the temperament of the person.

Simplicity in this simple setting

 captured by Rudy Wahju II‎'s eye.

We cannot always breath again after our breath has been swept out of us by surprise, delight or wonder at the sheer beauty of the subject of some women's essence, we sometimes glimpse. Capturing such a thing on film is the work of art, genius, and care to touch the soul... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/06/18 





















In general: The qualities that interrupt our breathing patterns involuntarily are esoteric. What esoteric is belongs to what we perceive by touch, and by touch disseminate with logic and reason. It sad we feel we have to do that to place ourselves above what is beyond touch, and mere belief. It is best to enjoy the unfathomable, absorb its worth feeling its essence. That is how children understand and learn language, and language, itself is Beauty we care to understand by unction, insinuation and yes, touch again, and again, and again....

There is more, but too much without the contact with what balances the Unknown is mere weight. Ain't that something?

In short, I love how you, Alexander Faris, captured the woman's logical connection to the essence of what matters to the subject: "What is beauty, what is kind, what is being perceived?" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/06/18 

Natural light portrait taken with Nikon D750 Sigma 85mm by Alexander Faris.

"Femme absolument somptueuse et Merveilleusement belle et séduisante." That means: [The] Woman is absolutely sumptuous and wonderfully beautiful and attractive! In the street vernacular: she is fine as she wanna be! 

KATE Winslet.

Actress Kate Winslet projects depths to the subject of Being!...

When a woman's presence provides reasons to ponder the deeper aspects of purpose and agrees to be enlightened by the subject of what she projects on consciousness, such a woman has an element of not only greatness, but a willingness to be subjugated to higher processes! It is something to ponder... -Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7/24/18

"Actress Kate Winslet makes tears come to the eyes out of appreciation. She can with her type of poise and projected stillness within poise inspire manhood to be better!. . ." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7/24/18

To Know.

photographer Gervel Jones-Sampson in the mountains somewhere in March of 2012.

"Simple, nice gentleness arising from within the moment tranquility settles into an already tranquil soul is the moment of touch in the feel of timelessness. Prayer has this quality, as well as being alone within the many, not in a pitiful state, but a state of union.

Sitting upon a rock in the vastness of a valley the mountains look far into what we don't know, couldn't know. We can bask in the mountain's knowing, and know none of what the mountain knows, has seen. It would be too much so we sit in the valleys knowing only what we know, as what we don't know tells us what they know into our stillness. This is the point of being still: to feel without knowing enough for a conversation in the open spaces of soul and  matter." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/3/17  

Gervel Jones-Sampson

Gervel Jones-Sampson.

"The face of age knows something youth could not know." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

IN Red, an old lady, a younger woman!

Rue McClanahan (February 21, 1934 – June 3, 2010) was an American actress

who starred in Golden Girls !!!! In fact, she was the reason I watched the show.

She was sexy, and aroused me, at times, near an incapability to cool down!

Couldn't watch her enough! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Red gown, nude worn in soft light.

Solitude in Creation.

Maat Petrova acknowledging July 1, 2015 full moon in Sagittarius unclothed !!!!

Secretive women, private in their nature, call men to them, who think beyond themselves into the light of who they are becoming. These women need that to grow the way plants need shadow as well as light. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Man's birth.

meditating in the desert. 

Life Accomplishment: excellence.

Morning meditation: 

Pray in every situation. Know your worth. Don’t let the past harm your future. Stop comparing yourself to others. Trust your inner voice. Everything doesn’t need to be said. Love and forgive yourself first. Life is short. Strive to achieve your goals. Know your limits. Inspire. Believe. Words are powerful. Speak wisely. 

Lori Williams 11/5/17 

Lori Williams, jazz singer.

"The maturation of spirit, the development of mind and talent, and how beauty matures in playful ways has always been a source of wonder for those who appreciate how such things work in their own lives!

This is what I see looking at this photograph!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/1217

Letter about jazz singer, Lori Williams from President of City Sketches, Inc.

Lori Williams performing at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club. Tony Lewis in the back.

Touch of Knowledge.

There is a smooth sublime tenderness in the texture of a woman who loves her man, a man cannot live without. What he does not know is how a woman planted the hold within her man to her core... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11.23.16

The suggestion is obvious. The nuance apparent. The intention? Now, therein lies the hidden."

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

(Nov. 23, 2016)  

This labyrinth encircles our lives from within without!

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Thoughts.