TIME, in time.

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"Elegance never had to draw a color line. Elegance is a definitive line between class and crudeness, proper breeding and elusive entanglements which serves as access to the bedroom. Elegance is above style. It is a substance..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Elandra Monique by

Black American woman in the woods is a stretch, but in a small river, or creek in a forest? Rarely, I have seen the first, and the second? Never and I've spent a few decades in forests. I wonder how this was planned and executed, unless you are a country woman, a hunter, spiritual woman?..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/11/18 

Ode to a Paradigm.

The wild sense of being independent, aloof, and 'on my own' became part of the mystique carried by each generation of youth, in the States. It portrayed a yearn incapable of fulfilling itself; yet it was fashionable. . . It is captured in this photograph! - Alowan Chantey Inyan Wichasha, 10/01/18 

Honor Water, Honoring Life.

Water embraces all of Life. White men not understanding this come from within their bowels, as if it is their right to disregard the waters of their mother's wombs as property! Therein lies the debate, and the future. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Before the decadence of this season begins consider. . .

Freedom. Kendra Cantara, a Playboy centerfold.

"Being and feeling free are two things, at once the same! Sometimes." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/28/18 

"...The innocence of her soft gentle form of refreshing beauty is refreshing. It belongs in a society disrespectful of who 'She' is to humanity. But, that is dangerous." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/28/18

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 

OF Susan.

Susan Sarandon without make up is as beautiful and appealing as her intellectual momentum creates shifts in thought processes. Engaging women like her overwhelm simplicity easily... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/13/18

Susan Sarandon full in her powerful way of being a woman

attending the 70th Cannes Film Festival!

Supreme something in Susan Sarandon's beauty, is an essence inaccessible to physical touch, and inadmissible as fodder for the lower elements of men, who hunt for these qualities for consumption. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

SPARTACUS and JIM CROW

The movie, Spartacus, was good, and for the times extraordinary! But, the novel? It was the book that turned the country upside down! It was banned in the South! I did not understand that until I read it! The author's mastery interpreting Roman history gave the spiritual and the intellectual basis for the governing business of American life: slavery. It was an extraordinary read! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/19/18

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