LIE to self before TRUTH to self.

Selfie, as a signature of the times...

"A woman cannot see herself taking her own picture. The camera was invented with the idea to capture the worlds outside of who we are, and to see what is around us reflecting who we are alive in the time appointed us. There is a deep sense of life not conveyed by self-absorption, or respected by the loss of discovery. Youth was made for discovery. Without it bitter things occur later in life..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/23/18 

Listen to your body. Art by Arla Patch.

Our body is a map to a vast, complex universe of information, inner workings and interconnection.🌐 There is no one who knows what is happening there as well as you.

✴“The Taoist principles of Chinese medicine view the pregnant woman as the spiritual, mental, and physical vessel of the child. 🕯 Through the primordial dance of the vital essence of two separate beings coming together with a mutual soul contract, a woman’s womb becomes a sacred repository, which receives these essences and alchemically transforms them into one, which grow to fruition within her. 💗 According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the intrinsic role of the pregnant woman is to nourish and protect the growing being within her, who has come from spirit to be made of flesh and bone." ~ Sacred  Motherhood Blueprint October 15, 2018 

[The] Glory Hole, as Cocoa Pink seems to interpret isn't a bad thing. Any man can stick his hard-n through a hole in bathroom stall, and she will (shall we say) pleasure him. Where does that leave her Being? Does her soul vanish? Does she become invisible in this world, this perception, and when she does where does she go within? Where does dignity and her sacredness hide? ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/23/18

White Women as Subjects

10 minute pose, graphite for Glamour & Fetish Art. 

Art is from the hand of Tim Kelly, from Baltimore. 

This title: "White Women as Subjects" is a volatile one. It is one subject in history too often unknown in depth by today's young American women activists. As well, they are subject to emotions convinced that the intensity of their reactions to social conditions is enough to make the walls of Jericho to come tumbling down! This isn't naivety. This is ignorance. The ignorance of assumption is primarily laziness. Activism is hard work. The hard part of it is the research. Research is work, and respectful of those who lived our pasts.

Understanding European history is basic to the Women's Movement. It explains; no, makes clear why the movement is first and primarily a white woman's struggle to be free. Other women are subjects to the 'crown'. Because of events unique to the 20th century, other women feel apart of this movement. Because the societal changes in the U.S. need to be white led, and the fact of what ails the souls of white women this movement is fraught with internal contradictions. For Black and Red women, the struggle is to free themselves from the histories of their past with white women, and their white men, who traveled the world killing and taking from the rest of the world. In this conquest, the inherent terror white women harbor within their wombs is of concern to us only in our relationship to the horror of what they did to other people's women!

If there is to be a woman's movement let the white women have theirs, and let our women have theirs off camera at the soul level in the ancestral realms...


- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [Jan. 18, 2019]

"Who was really sacrificed on the Cross.?"

photo by Baden Bowen of Ellis Stone.

Woman Alone by Daïdo Moriyama

Woman of Power shot with a Fuji XT2 camera several years ago by John Lehman.

As God Spoke of Eve into Existence.

El Descanso de la Flamenquera. (The rest of the Flamenquera...). 

photo by Mariano Marcetti.

"Stunning! A poem, a concept, and a fleeting moment of stillness, as the poem, takes shape in the form of a woman, who dances without movement; yet knows, and understands movement unlike the average person. Such an intangible.

Women feel like, or they can become such an element: a link in a design. They are in the expression of undeniable torrential storms of emotions embedded in the creative process that developed this element into physical form..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1/14/19

Yesterday I thought this...

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I wish I, or someone knew what we are looking at that occurred so long ago.. It is disturbing looking backwards into Time, as someone else knew their time on Earth before they died, as we all do to leave this plane of existence. Photography is powerful in its ability to hold time still in one place without touching, or altering the fact, the quality and essence of a moment... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories.

9/1/18

Aspects of She!

"Worship is one of the strongest temptations a woman's love making can engineer into an appreciative man's spirit!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

"The expression within and from the embodiment of the mystique of a woman is expressed best in quiet and in this medium (photography) it is best done in shadow..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories model, Collibrina by Ocie Clelland

Photographer Phu Minh shot this photo with a Nikon D610, lens 24-85f.5-4.5, ISO 200.

Dark Royalty by New Delhi photographer, Shailendra Rana. www.shailendrarana.com

Women's Portraits Only (WPO) 

the Hope to Break free!!

Black Woman in blue by Ike Slimster

There is a lot of space to be filled with the stories about the essence and the survival of Black African daughters, who have come from a dark past in relation to Europeans. But, there are the centuries before our Dark Centuries with the whites, we do not talk about because we only think of ourselves in terms of enslavement. This dark space in our souls is our history connecting us to Europe after we opened the world-at-large to them. There is no Europe or America without the Blacks from the Land of the Blacks!. . . ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [August 8, 2018]

Quite the Moment.

Ballerina by Matthew Nutting making the most of window light. 

www.matthewnuttingphotography.co.uk 

For the Love of Wonder!

Gregory E. Woods "This is a summation of a value women discover that should be cherished. It is an intangible. It is part of the intrigue, the suggestion of the mood set here..." was my first impression of this photographer.

Photographer, Gshooter Khôi‎ titled this "Fifty Shades of Freed".

"High Intelligence" is what I'd title this photo by Rahul Das. 

The camera model used was d7100 F.10 with shutter speed of 1/160s

Meditative moment for Sabrina Nguyen in photograph taken by Sönke Tunn‎ 

in Darmstadt, Germany. September 2018.

I love the illusion of and in the water. The elegance and dignity of older women is a higher testament of the essence of the female form. . ." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/12/18 

Elegant woman this fine was captured by Jack Woolley Jr.'s 

Nikon D850, Nikkor 85mm 1.4G at f3.5, 1/250, ISO 200.

Outside of Awareness.

Illusion of love by Victoria Ovcharenko

in the shadow cast by light. photographer, Subhajit Dutta.

Natalie's soulful PhotoArt

… something very moving in this composition. What it is, I don't know, but it moves my emotions towards a stillness! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories (photo by Natalie Krüger‎.)

Asian woman's mystique by Phillip Chang.

Art work by Hồ Thiên Cung.

A RIDDLE:

The placement of a woman naked in a body of water is a story. These are two things despised in European thought and tradition. The consequences of this historical fact is crushing the life out of existence. Unrepentant, humanity moans in pain we all feel. We people of color have no idea how to break through their resistance to begin the process of reconciliation at this level for so complicated a history!. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/3/18

She Pregnant!

Shadow, in the play of life, is for pregnancy what safety is for uncertainty when the variables of interconnected actions impregnate Life with uncertainty. This mystery is Life. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

Pregnancy arouses the natural inclination to honor the Sacred, hone the craft of deep Manhood inspiring husbands to adore their wives. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories [Feb. 23, 2017] 

[A] pregnant woman into the surprise and delight of being alive with two lives to cherish and care for is in the special role of Mother. This essence is an essence born into specific bodies on purpose for a set of purposes. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 6/29/18

Fall into dreams..

woman's body as landscape Art by Daido Moriyama titled 'Tights'

Wreck of telemon under a sky full of stars by Matt Morresi. 

"Il relitto del telamone sotto un cielo ricco di stele."

Mothers Mothering

Katherine Heigl a donné naissance à un petit garcon! 

Jerry Hall by annie leibovitz. Suckling.