2 Stories Interlocked!

Brigitte Bardot having fun!

Brigitte Bardot was once innocent, had innocence and played with it with ease until the world of men, predatory men, took that from her. It is an old story her old age repeated. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/12/18 

Fred Astaire, 1935.

"The African informed, taught his act and he became famous being white interpreting African dance to a less sophisticated appreciation of African genius!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/12/18 

Fred Astaire. Looking at the man through the lens of how entertainment failed and divided the races (Black and white) with the ingratitude of white entertainers learning, as best they could, how to dance the popular African dances of the time is a tell. . . White people are indeed lacking in gratitude, they also prefer to not acknowledge the debt of African genius. It doesn't agree with the intelligence of their assumptions of superiority, arrogance.

Far beyond in terms of years, the current fad of playing around with words and concepts like diversity, getting along, tolerance and other trite movements white people distant themselves from self-analysis and we, the rest of us, have to grapple without the presence of the designers of the racial construct we live within, to get along with white people! That's some shit! But, that is the way the misconception: racial reconciliation conducts itself!

This is hard to understand with a Twitter frame of reference and developmental substance. There are those who would prefer I'd simplify complex subjects, but I am a mature man who has steeped himself in study and analysis of this culture since my teenage years. Why would I try to fit all of this into 140 characters like the President Trump currently does most days!

It is this division of intelligence wrestling this global power into ineffectiveness. In time, in ways I don't need to see from this vantage point because of my age is a grown up way of dealing with a child. Let the child stumble. In this sector of human history the risk is the loss of power, and Americans without the powers they are accustomed to will falter in terror, no longer being the most powerful nation in the world!

That is quite a story Fred Astaire started. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/12/18

It is Who We Are!



alternative model's alternative body art is a story from a realm of being not too familiar...
© Nick Atkins Photography



model for Babes With Blackened Hearts teasing or taunting the camera.

 Body art is put on with pain, I understand from artists, upon people willing and able to put up with the pain for the sake of expression. We all have stories to tell and understandings we value, we need to convey through symbols. It is one of the distinguishing things about people animal people don't struggle with as a species. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6/19/16
 

A Thought Caught in the Air.

Rosa Brighid composed and still in a simple setting.

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

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories Jan. 16, 2017

"Opulence and how it feels is the temperament of the person. It is different from wealth, the accumulation of money. Opulence in the language of spirit is composure, composition and a contribution to the stillness one needs to appreciate being alive!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Jan. 16, 2017

Instagram.com/RosaBrighid

Arms up!

Esta preciosa tu modelo. 

oil painting by T. Kelly undecided 8x12 inch

Older woman as Art 4. photographer unnamed.

photographer, Mila Reynaud for Glamorama Studio of Janet Fischietto.

InkSpired magazine model, Inked Lady (2016).

Honey covered woman by Blake Little.

The question was did Jesus save your soul? Yes or no. I had to answer the group saying, "No."

I walked the Jesus Road different because my soul didn't need saving. It needed to find a way to continue living within the mysteries, the magic I was born into. All children are born into magical atmospheres. It where we all come from. I know my answer is too esoteric, but in this venue I won't explain what is beyond expectation. I just needed in this moment to see what it looked like written down. But, I also wanted to express in this medium what is easy for me say in person that there is no child born into sin. From living deep as a child and later initiated into manhood ceremoniously, and studying the Bible it became impossible to live under the weight of such an assertion! I discovered low self-esteem associates its energies with belief in being born a sinner in most people. It became abundantly clear working with the lives of people at the bottom of society. But, the whole notion of not believing in the fundamentals of sin aligned with the creation of mankind debunks believer's structure leaving them naked without a place to stand.  . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [2/16/17]

What Does She Say To You?

Horse Medicine in the northern sky captured by Adam Lyberth's camera. (Sept. 2016)

"Innocence, its vulnerability and its expertise in being gentle and unassuming should be, but are not priced in American culture. In word, yes, not in deed." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11.2.16

Jesus praying.

Simplicity is She

A body simply attired is a poem, a haiku poem. A woman's body is her story. When it is a man's story is it honestly connected to the higher aspect of manhood, or the lower demonstration of crudeness? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.6.16

 

Touched through Time

Early Photography and Film

beautiful woman from Luxor, Émile Béchard 1880.

"Her beauty, how she sits, the penetrating power of her eyes lingering over a hundred years after the shot extends itself, this moment, into my being. The way this is done has the timeless quality of exchange between souls. . ." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.06.16

To Sin Against Man



Ariadne Diaz

 on July 23, 2014 bit the apple

"She bit the apple" has been enough justification for men to treat women deplorably in Western cultures. In Islamic states a similar venue is erected to condemn women to brutal deaths for dishonoring fathers and families for infractions of human nature. It is a mortal sin in the blood religions to be a woman and a glorious thing at the same time!

What a remarkable contradiction!

Despite this history or because of it the current trend has been to allow the most deplorable treatment and disregard of their essence and their wombs. There seems to be no place sacred contempt cannot tread upon a woman's essence. What this means to Life has a profound affect on how we all live or if we live fully and in the depth of the mystery we were all born into as women and as men.

These are my words.

Gregory E. Woods
Keeper of Stories
July 7, 2015

Goddess within Heather Salmon in 2012 by Les Gradula

 

and I looked into her eyes and saw . . .

Mystery of Susy Mon by FiveRings Photography.

(September 17, 2013 )

Bilad as Sudan: the Land of the BLACKS

“So many things are evoked by African women whose stillness moves across the unseen landscape of the imagination, and the memories of the graceful walks of the mothers back home. None of us remember any part of Africa before the whites visited. We remember what was recorded in books, and our bones. We remember what is precious to the memories of the depth of our relationships to the creation of the rudiments of education, civilization, family values, study, morality, sacred scores of music ancient to the past, the mysterious scope of the spiritual value of the deities we served. In the Diaspora the ideal of African femininity is enhanced by our need to feel a part of what is vast, and larger than the battered identity of our struggles outside of the indigenous, and corporate structure of the villages our ancestors lived in ancient Africa.

Seeing a dark skinned African woman whose stillness is reminiscent of our former glory is implied by the suggestion in her posture of how she would walk should she stand up, and walk towards us, or away from us.” © Gregory E. Woods 10.10.12

dark skinned African woman sitting very still

“I don’t fully understand how it works, but there is a distinct quality living within an African woman raised anywhere in Africa that copulates with a Black man’s spiritual essence. Enhanced by living abroad, or mixing bloodlines the central essence, or core of "African spirituality" or "Africaness" is the shimmering within the stirred pot of the Alchemist mixing the ingredients of the range of the progenitor text we all come from that distinguished us, long ago, from untutored people who needed to be broadened, and expanded to absorb the higher mysteries afforded to the educated minds, developed bodies, and the crystalline spirits of initiated women and men in the countless spiritual clans through the Land of the Blacks!” © Gregory E. Woods 10.10.12

SACRED FORM OF SACRED ART: Aleera & Rihanna

Aleera

Rihanna on the summer beach in 2013

Things a Man Must Know ...

soft exquisite beauty of a woman's spirit !!!!

"Soft exquisite beauty of a woman's spirit is often forsaken by men's perceptions who looked upon her instead of within her. It is a lost art right action, loving perception. This lost does not mean it is without value, or has no place in society. It means to revive the tradition of learning from the Wise Elders." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.19.15

soft exquisite beauty of a woman of color whose hair was styled by Amber Frank

Paola Maluje Boroday

Paola Maluje Boroday
by Pablo Zabal
April 27, 2013

Paola Maluje Boroday 

IN THE Distance

"Softly the winds wrap themselves around ocean hair 
the wild hands of space rustle and whisper upon skin
humid the night kisses the day awake and sun rises
she is waiting there as she has since time began open." - Ngaronoa Mereana Taki 8.3.14

Woman in the Water 

OH, M A N ! ! ! !

Sacred form of a Woman 

Lord Byron said, "Pleasure's a sin and sometimes sin's a pleasure." 

seduced by Lola Taylor 

Light in the EYES

Chicktagram

May 23, 2013

I've lived long and deep in my life. I've had long moments to look deep into the faces, and the eyes of beautiful women. I've relished beautiful and expansive glimpses into the mysterious, and had many opportunities to partake of forbidden fruits, and been able to touch things, powerful things I had to develop to grow into. Faces have always been able to hold captive the things of good and evil, light and shadow, and been able to illuminate souls with mere glances into what animates the face into beauty and away from blight, and been able to make promises and imply. 

God has been given a face, and one of two genders. Youth comes with a look, and age develops. The face of things are rarely what they seem, and what is the face of an issue, or an idea is grounded in ideas about self, and where one fits. Our faces are storytellers, and who we are is always beneath the surface. If we mature and deepen who we are comes to live in our face, and projects outward from within. 

Let's face it. Our faces have their own beauty, and presents to the world facades, and facts. - Gregory E. Woods 5.24.13

face of Mereana Taki on april 24, 2012

MYSTERY: we can't know all

Sudarshana Mitra

june 18, 2013

June 15, 2013

Black eating his woman's pussy.

WARRIOR WOMAN

Androdameia was an Amazon who fought in the Attic War.
Her name means, "Subduer of Men." 

Daughters of Ra.

Ainia was an Amazon who was the enemy of Achilles. Due to this, she fought with Penthesilea at Troy, against Achilles. Her name means, "Swiftness." 

poem written upon GENTLENESS

"a poem she is, has become, is mean to be received as..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories April 29, 2013

" A vida é como um instrumento de música; tem de se elevá-la e libertá-la para a tornar agradável " . - Demófilo

a brown poem
 from gallery of Telma Regina Garcia

" Ainda que haja noite no coração, vale a pena sorrir para que haja estrelas na escuridão " . - Arnaldo Alvaro Padovani

Mysterious within...

Riley Jensen has a sacred beauty. It is in many of us. Not knowing sacredness is beauty many live as if they don't know what is sacred and beautiful within them. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11.18.13

Riley Jensen on Lake Tschida. Photo by her sister taken at sunset in the water.

Riley Jensen