First BALIFF

Sonia Montejano was born on June 5, 1966 in Venice, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Fiona's Script (2008), Judge Joe Brown (1998) and Hot Bench (2014). 

Sonia Montejano, baliff in the LA court system, quoted Eleanor Roosevelt. 

"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." 

Sonia Montejano in the still waters June 2016.

"Quiet is often bypassed in a rush to another place. Pity, many will understand quiet by force of a reality, physical challenges, or too late..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10/04/18

Sonia Montejano, baliff Hot Bench. 2017.

Miss Ella Fitzgerald. I miss her.

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz and song vocalist.

Tribute: Happy Birthday!!

Katee Sackhoff, actress, was born April 8, 1980. 

As of 2018 she reportedly is worth $4 million.

Katee Sackhoff was nominated for four Saturn Awards for her work on 

Battlestar Galactica, winning the award for Best Supporting Actress on Television in 2005.

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The Feel of this Essence.

Definitions. 

Beauty within the soul leaves admirers mute in her presence, as if holiness is a physical presence to connect fragments one with the other. Timeless quality is just that: timeless. Spiritual beauty is not simple; it is expressed as light in the eyes mirroring the weight of spiritual responsibility or spiritual powers. The substance of a spirit is in essence a series of stories developed intentionally to build, or destroy Life. For a man, if a woman's sex appeal is strong enough it will subdue the tendency to ask the right questions over the impulse to fuck, the need to copulate and the desire to have a way with a woman. The sex drive is in alignment with the impulse to be right in the spiritual realms. It is all in our breath where our words transform from the substance of weight in our thoughts into the audible words our ears transposed into the language of soul. These are fun things to be alone with pondering the powers of who we be! Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Sept. 7, 2018

model Maat Petrova (l.) and another woman on park benches June 4, 2013 !!!!

Moroccan woman in the long ago.

Moroccan woman in traditional dress is probably Berber.

Cameroonian model Amanda EFathel by William Nsai

BLACK WE LOVE.

Makalah Ann by Roland Dawson [2019] 

Dark compelling beauty of Bennie Rose by Roseograph

We talk about the glory of Africanism, in the States, without having ever set a foot upon the Mother Land. It is a perspective, this stance, without the authority that comes from the feeling that courses through and from Ancestor to descendent, when an African child has set their foot upon the Land of the Blacks!

That said the feel of West African culture comes through your work with joy and seriousness. These tributes of yours return the indescribable feel of being (for a flash) in the north, and the west of Africa, to me. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

Bre by Roland Dawson. 2018. 

Makalah Ann

What We Can Do Can Be Done.

Balloon Ark created by my cousin, Marcia Liggett at First Church of God, for Amber's Amazing Balloons. Sept. 9, 2018, which is her daughter's business. Amber, a new college graduate in grad. school right now, has been in business since elementary school. It is a successful business. 

Parenting is an art. In today's climate it isn't acted out this way. With so much of American thought and practice as parents under duress one would logically believe it not possible given the wealth and advantages of this culture. For people whose ancestors are indigenous to this land, and from the Land of the Blacks there are ancient ways of being a parent, and a part of community that is foreign to European thought, belief and practice. This is important to fathom because the fact is white Americans have created chaos where they know order belongs. Why they do this instinctually requires deep study.

I mention this in the context of acknowledging my cousin Maria Liggett, and her husband, Lamont, who have retained and mastered an ancient way of raising and developing their children that outsizes the puny thought process common in American life that develops the lowest impulses within children from suicide to gang warfare and truancy. How a nation underserves its children is based on the belief systems held during the long periods of European life in their Dark Ages.

They raised their children in a white community on purpose in Western Pennsylvania, which is significant because the climate there is seeped in the self-destructive dynamics of racism, as a social construct. The two of them set their standards of expectation high, and humbly influenced a white town towards a higher awareness outside of, and away from the primitive outlines they feel special within as 'superiors'. Their two children had struggles within what is typical of white American resistance to the challenges to their assertions of superiority in terms of intelligence, capacity to learn and exceed. The two children started and developed business in elementary school that have grown. The boy, Rob, has a successful photography business. He is in high school. His sister, Amber's balloon business afforded her opportunities too numerous to mention in the small space of an article.

The point is one of excellence. It is not a target point of the majority. For those on this trajectory there is a special consideration: they will find a way to learn the secrets and the techniques of the best from the best of the best. The rest?

Well. . .


- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
 [September 8, 2018]

About Indifference

ELDER TALK


It is lost today how important it was for these individuals (Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, and other prominent Negroes) to be in the public eye, and why their behavior was, and had to be above reproach.

Prior to the assumptions of these times we tend to make about 20th century, Negroes had to be above reproach at every level of their lives to be above average, and successful in the white world. White people's general assumptions and convictions about Black people were carved into stone, and the preservation of our integrity, and race pride were profoundly important to us. In addition, being killed by white folks, and judged by low evaluation standards made daily life a strategic operation. The sophistication it took to work, and live in those times did not have the assumptions of present day belief structures today's youth seem to embrace.

Black and white kids today believe the lies, the misrepresentation of their histories, and undisciplined where they should be disciplined these young people tend to believe racial equality has occurred without work, or input on their part, or collectively. A deeply felt "Oh, shit!" moment is what they need to wake up from the slumber of their childhood, and what their childhoods failed to introduce them, and prepare them to become!

I can think of, and share a number of things, and expand their worlds in this medium, or in their presence, but I have learned the number of students is but a handful hard to attract. One need not cast pearls to swine. If there is hunger there is want. If there is need there is a seed. If there are seeds to plant the land will ask. If someone wants to die let them die.

These are my words.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
3/27/19

Nate King Cole and Maria Cole.

Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald at the top of their game!

Dream this time...

"... There are prayers within women. They are almost imperceptible, but they can be heard, and they change a man in his dreams, and perceptions of power..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/15/19 

Vulnerable beauty by Wilson Phang

Wildlife. Green bee-eater (Merops orientalis) by Joby Varghese 

in Calictu, Kerala, India (August 2018)

Free Spirits. Different Feel.

Flower child in the 21st century in photo by Siegart von Schlichting. (2019)

The meaning of a flower child has changed over the decades from a dancing excitement to stoic posturing. Strange.  

flower child Maitrieya Sandness in 2013 

"... but the play of it is the essence of it." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3/12/19 

hitchhikers in the 1970's. 

She as a story.

softly elegant woman by Stefan Teresiak. 2019. 

https://www.instagram.com/stefan.teresiak/ 

"The soft elegance within youth has to be understood in the context of stages. What occurs when an elegant woman begins to mature, matures, and becomes an elegant old woman with substance, and depths?..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/08/19 

a deep knowledge of...

Words to Tamara Fleming


". . . The flow comes from and is a part of an effect upon the senses of the observer and she who causes the soul to stir. It is fair to say the observed, and the observer co-exist within one. It is math, the law of math with its infinite way of being consistent. The symbol of hair for, within and from African women involves the intimate rush of knowing to belong to one's powers. Dreadlocks return millions throughout the African Diaspora to bound back from the terror of surviving under the dictates of slave master's grandchildren. The power within kinky hair ties strength to power, to purpose direction and in the direction where one is determined to go are the voices of Ancestors, who know us.

This powerful story is the kinky hair gone to the roots of the peoples of the darker hue.. 

This memory came from glancing into what is clear in your eyes!. . ." 


- Gregory E. Woods, 
Keeper of Stories 10/30/18 

Dreadlocks worn by Tamara Fleming. 

birth to Life.

"The soft elegance within youth has to be understood in the context of stages. What occurs when an elegant woman begins to mature, matures, and becomes an elegant old woman with substance, and depths?..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/08/19 

Black American family by Roland Dawson. 2019.

The one on the left. That is the powerful one. Nothing as deep the feeling, as a husband, seeing and knowing the birth process your wife went through to birth the child! Those marks evoke something beyond words holding a husband's purpose to his soul inexplicably!... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/09/19

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Royalty by Roland Dawson. 2019.

Royalty, in the context of motherhood, evolves in the context of what values new life! The mother, who carries life in her womb births children, and can hold the essence of her man's dream of Life, at the same time. There is no power without birth, death, and resurrection! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3/09/19 /

She is Someone.

Juliette Binoche (born 9 March 1964) is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1983.

A Youth Examination!

Cierra Ramírez (born March 9, 1995)

Cierra Alexa Ramírez is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Mariana Adams-Foster in the Freeform television series The Fosters.

In 2007, Ramirez played a recurring role on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as Jasmine, a young camper with anger management issues. Ramirez played recurring character Kathy in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, introduced in the 100th episode as a pregnant freshman.

Ramirez played the titular role in the 2012 feature film Girl in Progress, for which she won an ALMA Award for Favorite Movie Actress Supporting Role.

Starting in 2013, Ramirez played Mariana Foster in the ABC Family (renamed Freeform channel) series The Fosters. Her character is a straight A student who, with her fraternal twin, has been adopted by a lesbian couple into a multi-ethnic blended family. The show premiered on June 3, 2013, and in January 2017 Freeform announced that it had been renewed for its fifth season. However, according to Entertainment Weekly, the series will be cancelled after a three-night limited series on January 9, 2018, but will follow with a spin off featuring Cierra Ramirez and Maia Mitchell.(WIKI) 

She Lived 90 years!

Old Woman, Long Life: How? 

Claire Trevor was an American actress. She appeared in over 60 films, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo, and earning nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty and Dead End. She also received top billing in Stagecoach. She had 3 husbands and one son. She lived between these two dates: Mar 08, 1910 - Apr 08, 2000.

I wonder what death, the afterlife, birth and living was for her as an old woman, now, as a baby and how she fared as an old woman! I always wonder about those things as I age through the 12 stages of Life!

Death, like Life. is a dance you dance, or dance into or dance with. What do you do with Death? Is your life existence, driven by purpose, or an unfolding prophecy? What is it like to simply be ordinary, or crude? I don't know, but I have known and know plenty like this. Truth is I am more interested in people living in places within themselves filled with powers embracing those powers and imparting unto others!

How these questions are answered orchestrate how one dreams, thinks, believes, has sex, and conducts themselves in relation to who they are and who others are in their own lives!

How do you live? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11/18/18 

Claire Trevor, Belgium-French American actress.

God, she was elegant, and obviously from a bygone era when elegance, not crudeness, was a gift to the soul, and fundamental to the essence of a woman's bearing!... It is harder to impart this sensibility into girls today for reasons their parents and their adults need to uproot themselves... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/16/18 

Claire Trevor, Belgium-French American actress b. 1910 !!!!

Claire Trevor, actress, lived a long time! She was 90 when she died. She would never have crossed the color line for love. She would have faded into contempt, loss favor and jobs. Her marital years would have lent no understanding in her favor had she... ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/18/18

German Women.

German model by Stefan Teresiak‎. 
https://www.instagram.com/stefan.teresiak/ 

There is something within German women that is elusive, and not within the makeup of American women I have enjoyed over the decades. Can't connect with why, and have had the conversation here and there with German women. It is always fun, but there is a perspective... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/28/19 

German woman, Vendula Kovářová by Radek Adámek 

Heck of a Story.

The story of elegance and grace captured by photographer, Matt Baker is a clear merge into the mystery embedded within the intangible framework of mystique. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/27/19 

From the Dream, this Concept.

Elegance within Black American women is a refinement of elements men have no control over, but contribute to appreciating the complex value of the stories that made her defiant, a mysterious substance from within the creation story that defined ancient ways of living alive! There is more, but you have to live to see that deep trail. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/1/18 

Old married couple's elegance and strength.

Elegant lady, Danielle Brooks. photo by Matt Sayles.

exceptional beauty of an African woman.

early morning on the beach in solitude. the quiet is its own prayer.

Crime Investigator.

Red 

Yolanda McClary, crime investigator and star of the show Cold Justice. (2018) 

I'll be honest. I was stunned by Yolanda McClary's beauty, and the depth in her eyes. When she spoke her keen intelligence, and the straightforwardness of her character got to me. Then I paid attention to the details...- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/3/19 

Yolanda McClary, crime investigator investigating a crime scene on an episode of Cold Justice in August 2015.