Perspective: FREEDOM Sought.

Motorcycle. Steed Babe circa. 2005 

model this bike for Steed Musclebike Motorcycle Co. 

has quite the drawing power!

"... Strength in the woman that has what draws men nigh unto her bosom is captivated by what is weak within the structure of men's illusions. The machines enhancing, or representative of male force add and create power to the image of the Western male. Strength and power are not from image, but structures based in the revolving and circulatory forces of Nature from Creation in the present..."

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/19/18 

"Allure and appeal intertwine on a nice ride similar to the way pleasantness, and appreciation fuel the imagination as an observer." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/20/18

The aloneness of space isn't a substitute for being quiet within. It initiates this state of being in silence. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/20/18 




Female Motorcycle Riders

Independence by Fusion Photo. 2015.

This photo, and the intelligent way it was crafted takes me back to American history 101:

"... Property and substance, in European history as we Indians and Africans learned, were separate, and ne'er were the two to merge into white women's concepts of self, or fuel their esteem. It was hundreds of years before simple declarations like: 'Property of NO ONE' were embedded into their daughters. The dangers are current. The fears earlier white women felt are current. They have gone nowhere. They hid, and now the push for liberation, and freedom of expression..." -Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/20/18 

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

WHEN WE AWAKEN. (2.)

"Some things are just average, other things are spellbinding!"

Dancing in a mint pirouette midi skirt from fall collection by Shabby Apple.

face of an older woman who has lived. when many awaken to old age they realize their bodies, and their faces tell stories; have told stories or is a reference for young women needing guidance. plastic surgery is fear, the mask of fear people pay for. afraid of death their angst is their denial, their denial a form of death hastening the process. fear of old age is a lack of power, and successfully keeps clarity a distance away from the substance that holds the sacred circle. 

naked dance of Flora & Mike 2

Quiet is stillness. There is movement in stillness. The Hunter is meditative in the stillness required. The perspective of those hunting is to listen to the calm in the air not altered by the fear from the hunted. These are subtle elements in the dangerous game played to remain in existence. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/22/18

exquisite beauty of this woman is sharp, highly intelligent and piercing.

Not every tool is needed in the enforcement of law. Pepper spray is not an essential tool protecting life, or restraining dark forces. Impeccability is the element and knowing subtle things about perception as power commands, and controls intent... 

There is a profound teaching knowing how to control one's spirit. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Negro woman watering her plant. 

circa. mid-20th century. Jim Crow era. 

The presence within Beauty is the soul seeing itself for what it is worth at the time. In deep moments of doubt Beauty grows into the places sorrowing for comfort in the places isolation, or indifference can place a soul, at times in one's lifetime.

"How will we die?" moments like this will ask sometimes. "How will we live after revived by Beauty?" is another question asked in stillness. On the other hand, or other side of the equation, Darth Vader's feminine side, may look like this. It is a profound thing to ponder. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/23/18 

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!

In Praise of a Woman.

Luxurious way of Denise Michelle Alling by Erica Robertson.

Somehow this portrait of Ms. Denise Michelle Alling sings. 

In praise of a woman: her right to believe she is safe being available is as important as being safe to be the self she believes she is: as a sensuous being. It is puzzling this riddle. This contradiction appears as clearly a challenge to the core of a manhood she needs to believe exists... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/12/18 

Blind They Are

The image of Dee Kriel taken by Louren Botha reminds me of how oblivious today's women are in a world of predators. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1/8/19

FAR from wholeness...

A LOSS 

Women understood by lust and want lose an essential part of being women. Those thinking, as Lauren Phillips does, lose the feel of right relationship with what can make them divine, and submit to a crude appreciation of punany. The sacred becomes the unknown in the thinking of a wanton woman. It seems obvious, but is that an arrogant assumption made by individuals incapable of living up to the standards they place upon wanton women in the business of pleasing the flesh? ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (8/5/18)   

IN the essence of...

Tall woman sitting on government steps.

There is a lot to the mystique of women's insistence on being feminine. When Americans redefine feminine they leave the sacred outside the center of this essence. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories May 18, 2018 

Kelly Brook's pretty legs in a patterned summer dress!

Listen, young man!

". . . The intelligence and intensity in this woman's eyes speaks for an honest assessment of who a man is approaching her. This is a hint at the level of depth and insight my father gave me when I was a boy becoming a man. His instruction and example of manhood and masculinity shaped how each woman was to be perceived, and what I later instilled in my own daughters and my sons! Those not grasping the depth of who I am are also trying to grasp who they are because this teaching has everything to do with who you are this moment and what you may become in the next. It may be a riddle at this point, but it is a step towards who you were meant to be, and a study of who you are at this moment..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7/29/18 

A Question leads to GROWTH.

 Women's Portraits Only (WPO

Fashion portrait of Anetta shot by Kenneth Lysgaard. [Nov. 2018]

"... There is softness to weigh in the presence of serenity and the brief feel of what within women draws men to their essence. The mystique of a woman can only be developed by the woman herself. The how is based on knowledge from a woman's elders..." 

It is, or for me, has always been a source of wonder the ways women convey complex forms of expression that have nothing to do with brute force, but with intangible elements that change the core of a man. Is it stillness, stillness within, or is it merely how the core of resistance is the blending of elements to understand and see the other?..."


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 
11/11/18 

Aws, 25, a former resident of Raqqa, Syria, used to be a member of the 

Khansaa Brigade, the Islamic State's female morality police. 

photo: Tara Todras-Whitehill for NY Times

I’ll love you forever
I’ll like you for always
As long as I’m living My baby you’ll be ❤️

Forever a Mama’s boy ❤️-

- Jessica Lynne

Jessica Lynne and her son early in the morning, 

August 8, 2018. 

"By definition, the term, Mama's boy, is a simple description of a boy's love for his mama. In his manhood that love creates value to this relationship. The boy becomes her great protector! In essence, a mother gives birth to her protection giving birth to a son!... 

Today, a lot of women believe they are the creation of their son into protectors. They aren't. That is the father's job. At some point, that energy can be provoked, not guided by fathers, or grandfathers, into something dark and resentful towards their mothers. American women, often, refute this out of pride and fear that men like me are right, and come to understand what we know the hard way!. . ." 


- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/11/18 

Women in these States

Voiceless they are. 

Photographer Radek Adámek captured this terror, this truth, this state of being. 

[2014]

WOMEN in TERROR.

Joséphine Marcus Earp was the

common-law wife of Wyatt Earp.

IN the terror of being a woman in the Western world is the fact of white women's fear of white men prone to kill them at the core of the crisis. In the game to stay invisible, to a degree, and available for opportunities is the ever risk of forever being a sex object. It would be different in a society balanced by elements that coincide with respect and depth to the understanding of womanhood.

The simplest way of telling this story is to tell the truth. What flies into the proverbial fan is fear of the truth and ignorance of the core of the collective history behind this stage of the women's movement! Women will always be sex objects and just as well because men will always want to have sex with women, and women will always want men for sex! The attraction is natural. The danger in modern life in a variety of countries are the conflicts of belief and religion in conflict with the feeling of inadequacy men in these cultures have inside of them.

In the cultures, where the belief in the assumption of men's superiority over women, confuses the inadequate feeling undeveloped men nurse in the presence of women, hide the deep contradictions that became part of organized religions. These religions placed laws into the daily lives of its adherents that justified wrongs against women and worse developed a creed. Rape is justified by scripture, bad behavior towards women is justified in the story of Eve in the Abrahamic texts and practiced in lieu of disciplined training of the mind, the spirit and the emotions of men, who find a way out of expanding their existence into true power, deep knowledge and the awareness from controlling one's spirit!

Men are supposed to ground themselves with a series of questions beginning with innocence. "Who are the innocent, and who will protect the innocent?" Innocence is where all of us begin our living. How men develop contempt for women from a patriarchal religion is a mysterious deception from the evil place of not being truthful, and from not being themselves, in the deep context of masculinity! What isn't innocent in the innocuous cat call towards women embedded in the contradictions we learn living in the States? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (5/01/18)

YESTERDAY. 

Changing a tire!

Nana’s system for changing a flat tyre: 1. Get tools ready. 2. Flash your ‘motorist in distress’ knickers. 3. Wait for kind gentleman to stop and help. ~ anon 

White Boys, Drinking & Violence

The climate of the white school Kavanaugh went to in the DC area was, and is exactly how Dr. Christine Blasey Ford described. It was and is a very loud way of life among those white kids up to and in college. Many Black and Hispanic parents, myself included, steer our children from them during celebratory events like football games, parades; anything to do with patriotism because their propensity towards violence unwinds with beer, and liquor unwinds a violence they believe has a right to out in the open. 

I won't share my negative encounters, but many have similar stories in this area of encounters with white boys, and white men with the same belief systems. The way the white boys compress this is familiar to our ancestors. How we protect our grandchildren changes as the laws white men change our focus on where they might be designing life for us with violence, not that far away.  

Kavanaugh can't face the women offended by his terror inspired disregard for their well being. Men and women of this persuasion can't feel the weight and the pain of this history for fear it will attach itself upon their livelihoods. It does despite emotional denial as this power they harness empowers the history of terrorism without words, but a distinctive feeling known all too well by those of us not of that group of men. - Gregory E. Woods​, Keeper of Stories 10/8/18 

[the story]

Shopping. Alone in public.