What is Seen,

Powers awakened within Heathers Molik.

Displays of power can be beautiful in the way it is present within a person. In this instance, a woman's display of beauty is a power in the instant of revelation, in conjunction with what is substantial evidence of powers from within! Holding powers within is as challenging as powers held within vulnerability, and sexual prowess... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Lisa Starr. 

Simplicity, grace and a quiet demure way of being a woman engineers change within many men vying for such a woman's attention. The skill is being genuine. There are no lines. There is only one way of being genuine...  How women carry this energy is either from deep within, or it is a practiced art form or from deep pain. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/12/18

Forces In Natures.

Eva Mendes' exquisite beauty alongside her apparent joy within her living Life, adds to her appeal... Where does that go after death, to a child entering this life? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Powers of this African woman wearing a handmade outfit from the 

Neema Mansaray Kollection with fabric from Ghana... This is a Mende dress.

The deep force of this white woman's face is the beauty that has grabbed and captivated imaginations, not because it is more spectacular; it is framed inside of a history of survival. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Hat coolly worn by this woman is different in respect to her African heritage. It feels different, her style of being from her essence, from white women's projections via fashion! White women can wear African clothes, not the essence can the clothes wear. They, as anyone else, can only wear who they are in essence...  - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

A lady, an African lady!

Dark woman. God, she is engaged in her life!

2 Different Times.

Krystle Lov'e.and Roland Dawson, the model and the photographer. January 2019.

"There is devotion to light by spiritually attuned people, and there is devotion to one's craft, and the attention one gives the details of being creative is the return to the origins of why creative people teach the crude to see better!" It amazes me how you consistently make this point in your work, Mr. Dawson!! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories January 11, 2019 

Tintype photograph of two men. 

TWO INDIAN MEN

It was late in the 1890's. Not to long in the country above our little town my brother and I sat for this tintype. We'd been cattle rustlers with four gringos, who took off after the roundup and caught. We escaped. 



We thought we could be better men, so we took our money to buy new clothes and shave. We didn't look like this after hiding from the authorities. A few weeks had passed by, and we got to a town without the lawmen figuring where we hid. This looks not like us then. A few years later Juan, on the left found his wife in the town near the town we left her in, and she had had two children, who weren't his. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1/16/19 

UNBELIEF in Young bloods, Not knowing.

Unbelief applies here looking deep into her eyes. The future is there. The possible resides within and from the core of her being is the promise of more to come. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Unbelief in the strength of women is founded on a concept of an overextended version of male superiority that suffers under the glare of our women, who know better. In the context of Black American history the strength of concepts from matrilineal societies hold Black families intact. Today, all the factors that debilitated the new Africans in the Americas were challenged by the old, strong traditions from the Land of the Blacks!...

I make this point because the power of this image brings this to the forefront. The strength Black American women have needs to be respected, understood, deciphered and held against the wisdom depths of our Ancestors, who understood in depths we, as a People, have long forgotten!... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Unaware thinking they are hip.

Turning heads is something good looking women can do effortlessly. 

Being beautiful is a condition of one's relationship with elements higher than lust. 

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Dark Characters

Maila Nurmi as the 1950's character Vampira she created.

Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008), known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was a Finnish-American actress and television personality who created the campy 1950s character Vampira.

The daughter of a Finnish immigrant, Nurmi was raised in Oregon and relocated to Los Angeles in 1940 with hopes to be an actress. After several minor film roles, she found success in the Vampira character, television's first horror host. Nurmi hosted her own series, The Vampira Show, from 1954-55 on KABC-TV.

After the show's cancellation, she appeared in the Ed Wood cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space. She is also billed as Vampira in the 1959 movie, The Beat Generation where she plays a beatnik poet,as well as in the crime film The Big Operator (1959). She was portrayed by Lisa Marie in Tim Burton's 1994 film Ed Wood.

In the early 1950s, Nurmi was close friends with James Dean, and they spent time together at Googie's coffee shop on the corner of Crescent Heights and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. She explained their friendship by saying, "We have the same neuroses." (Wiki)

(* Of course, her unusual figure was a key factor to her success, as Vampira claimed to be gifted with the following measurements: 38-17-36! Huh?) 

Eclectic Ladies

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, waited for me every fall, or so I thought when she came around every October.

Elvira

Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1951) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV wearing a revealing, black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Elvira's Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. Her wickedly vampish appearance is offset by her comical character, quirky and quick-witted personality, and Valley girl-type speech. (Wiki)

Tormented Story, Released Spirit!

Note to Rachel Gunn:

I took the time to place your narrative in a correct form, and closely read your story. There is a profound shift in perspective you traveled through to become and hold a perspective this honest. There is a lot felt in my Being from you to me. You trick all who were, and are taken by how you present yourself, but I had mastered a trick my parents taught me, and looked for a revelation.

We all ache to tell our stories. Yours requires attention to detail an aroused man cannot grasp with clarity... There is a lot in your story, and out of habit I will study your words. Maybe, I will share what else I have learned from you. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (9/30/18)

Rachel Gunn over the decades... has a story to tell.

Story of Rachel Gunn:

OK, It's been a few weeks since I vented so here I go. Not that anyone is going to read this long ass shit. I posted the center pic on Instagram today which is a modeling picture when I was around 35 years old. So a guy commented on the pic what he thought was a compliment which said Wow, you must be 20 years old there. So beautiful". 

Maybe he thought it was a compliment, but to a 43 year old woman as myself it's not, because instantly it saddened & angered me. It's essentially saying that "Wow, I looked so good when I was younger, but I'm not 20......I'm 43". The reality of it is that in the middle picture I was around 35 and it is a modeling pic so yeah, it was probably airbrushed. The picture on the far left. That is really what I looked like in my twenties when I was 25. Yes, I looked really different. I was an ugly duckling & bullied & teased for the way I looked. The picture in the middle is 35, and the picture on the far right is from a few weeks ago, the age I am now, age 43, no airbrushing. I don't airbrush my selfies. This is me. 

I put a lot of work and time and money into trying to improve myself. I have jogged thousands and thousands of miles over the years, spent thousands and thousands of dollars on plastic surgery, eat well, try to live a healthy lifestyle.. basically doing all I can to try to maintain what I have & to improve myself. It saddens & disgusts me that this society, especially this country celebrates youth so wholeheartedly & makes getting older, especially in women, seem like something to be ashamed of. You don't know how many times I've been made to feel bad for the age I am, for getting older, how many times I've been insulted because of my age, how many times I've been made to feel like I shouldn't be able to do the things I want to do because I am too old, the opportunities & doors that close because of my age. 

Why in other countries is aging celebrated and the elders respected while here women are made to feel like they are washed up and should just pretty much die already. Not everyone has the opportunity to grow older, unfortunately; so shouldn't aging be something to be thankful for? 

For the past 20 years I've been on this endless quest for perfection trying to attain these unrealistic beauty standards just so I'll maybe, for once, think I'll be at peace with myself, & then I'm reminded again that: "No, I'm not 20, that I'm getting older and that eventually the heads will stop turning & nobody will notice me anymore." That is something I have to come to peace with. Our faces, our bodies, our outsides all eventually deteriorate no matter how hard we try to fight it; but our insides, our soul, our spirit, that is what remains infinite & lives on into eternity. It would be nice if this world wasn't so shallow, if more people could look beyond the outer shell into what lays beneath, but realistically that is not how it is. Therefore, not only myself, but many women & men will ride on this endless roller coaster to attain the ideal embodiment of perfection. Honestly, as much as the insults hurt regarding my age, I wouldn't want to be 20 years old again. I have fought so hard to be who I am today. 

I hold wisdom my 20 year old self knew nothing about & my legacy will not be the mask I show to the world, what you see on Facebook, but my beautiful children, these special beings I created who I love more than anything & am so proud of; the connections I've made over the years, people I've made feel better: my spiritual being. That is real life, not bodies & faces & beauty, & the sexuality that society abuses & I myself bought into. So try to remember to honor & respect the fact that we all do age & to realize that getting older doesn't have to be a bad thing, but a beautiful thing to be applauded. I'm not just going to sit in my room & curl up into a ball & rot away because I'm 43 years old. 

Sorry. Everyone is unique & beautiful in their own way, despite weight, looks, age, sexual orientation, etc. So next time you insult someone because of their age or looks or only hold those you think are physically beautiful in high regard, remember you are not only hurting the other person but yourself; for you are missing out on the true meaning of what life is & that is having heart & seeing others for what is on the inside. I wish I wasn't so hard on myself, and could see myself how I see others, but I can't. I will lose my looks, but I will never lose my heart, that will never perish. Sometimes I just need to remind myself of that. Then maybe one day, maybe I'll be at peace. Yeah, it's cheesy. So what. lol. 

Sara Gunn 

March 23, 2018

Rachel Gunn, as a nun, in a photo shoot with D.W. Enterprise Images, LLC. 

photographer Wade Edwards, in St. Louis. April 24, 2018.

We are all intrigued by Nuns, who have taken sacred vows, who are seeped in dark secrets contrary to their vows. All the questions we have are answered by what we deny being cognizant of... Sometimes, we are our own lies... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/30/18

the Dean Martin

Dean Martin drink in hand.

"At the time, in those days Dean Martin was often with a drink and a cigarette. The three of them were telling complex stories of the time, and the stream of consciousness that informs today... It is remarkable how the past lives in the present!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/12/18

Short story long in Life.

I am remembering my long ago:

Early in the evening she sat in front of her father's shop. We met looking into the eyes. It gave us an instant understanding of the other, from there we evolved into why she connect with words. It struck both of us how intimate this moment was and how long it was in that moment. Moments connect outside of the feeling of a moment, as if its life line extends into an eternity the way eternity blends into a moment. 

Only God knows how to do what we think is magical. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (August 27, 2018) 

"Sensuality has movement. The sensual is movement within a woman touching the core of essence. It is easy to respond, but it is harder to describe..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 8/27/18 

Roser Amils hada con tacones rojos. Foto de Guy Aelbrecht.

Asked of Self.

Emily Marilyn's feet are the fetish for many men. I don't quite get it, but it keeps her on the forefront of many a man's focus. Pity, their wives or girlfriends, who wear heels, when they get some age on them! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories [November 28, 2017]

Danica Collins, a British citizen, was born July 01, 1965. Was she meant to be the desire at the end of countless men's sexual yearnings? It is a question to concern one's soul with. The answer tells us our story.

Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11/28/17

Danica Collins smiling happy with a cup of coffee.

Danica Collins's pearls! 

Danica Collins, like so many women, holds great powers. Through sex she dominates. By way of sexual powers she rules imaginations, but in actuality how powerful is a woman without spiritual powers from and of the womb? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

a short story told

Little Red Bunny in December of 2017 said, "It's so cold out that keeping a warm mindset of better weather may not be enough. Want to stop by and help to keep something else hot and wet tonight?"

For a man there is always something to think about in offers like this. Because a woman wants you doesn't mean she needs you, or do you need just a body and emotions to plunge into pulling and pushing inside a woman millions know on the internet, or in your small world of influence where women move about sly with a need to give it up?

It is raw these emotions; so are the consequences, if any, and there is the momentum of being engaged in the sensuous, enthralled by the sensuality of basking in lust, yearning in spite of inner conflicts surrounding the need to be loved in return for expressing the heart during intercourse, or forsaken during wild unscripted sex with no boundaries. We are complicated being people, and sex proper makes us feel unique; no, special. We are unwrapping ourselves at the soul level during sex, and in our working lives sex is uncoiling in the dimensions of Being.

How deep our souls go during sex, because of sex and for the need for sex.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
March 8, 2018

Little Red Bunny is provocative! She challenges the soul's integrity without more than suggestions!

Swinging!

Chelly Minyon Martin by Roland Dawson. She said, "I swing to a different beat."  

Angelie Rodriguez by Roland Dawson swinging. Nov. 2017.

PROMOTING: A Lumbee Gershom!

Anita Jo Shifflet, Lumbee author promoting her book: A Lumber Gershom (2018).

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alumbeegershom.com — with Anita Jo Shifflett.

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

The ties that bind

Durante um tempo fiquei observando esse animal no cemitério, era impressionante, mas ele mantinha uma mesma postura e nunca se movia do lugar ao lado desse túmulo. Depois de uns 15 minutos ele saiu de cabeça baixa.
Então resolvi perguntar ao segurança do cemitério porque deixaste um cavalo entrar nesse local?
Para a minha surpresa, ele falou que depois que o dono dele morreu toda tarde ele estava choramigando no portão para entrá-lo. Dizem que esse cavalo era tão amigo desse homem que não poderia viver sem ele, pois foi a pessoa que salvou sua vida, sua mãe morreu de parto e ele foi criado como filho pelo seu dono. Por isso, todos os dias ele está aqui para agradecer-lo.

Moral: Nunca se esqueça daquele amigo que te deu a mão quando vc não tinha mais forças para continuar. 

Horse in the grave yard.

For a while I was watching this animal in the cemetery, it was impressive, but he kept the same posture and never moved from the place next to that tomb. After about 15 minutes he came out of his head.

So I decided to ask the cemetery security because you let a horse into this place?

To my surprise, he said that after his owner died every afternoon he was choramigando at the gate to accessed him. They say that this horse was such a friend of this man who could not live without him, for it was the person who saved his life, his mother died of childbirth and he was raised as a son by his owner. So every day he's here to thank you.

Moral: never forget that friend who gave you your hand when you had no more strength to continue. - Dr. Frases  

Prayer to the Passion

Brittney Blair,  Capree Washington, Anna Griffin and Latoya Taylor. by Roland Dawson. (2016)

model Shaunice by Pawel Lukas.

Posture as Story.

Posture speaks about the woman. Purpose emanates from the pores. Dress speaks of taste.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Posture speaks about the woman. Purpose emanates from the pores.

Dress speaks of taste. Eyes speak of power. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Posture speaks about the woman. Purpose emanates from the pores.

Dress speaks of taste. Eyes speak of power. Body speaks of Mother.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

October 11, 2017