Art of Kate by Greg Williams

Kate Beckinsale holds her intangible like a lady one can study as she grows up... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Kate Beckinsale holds her intangible like a lady one can study as she grows up... into what was meant to be! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Kate Beckinsale holds her intangible like a lady one can study as she grows up... into what was meant to be!! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Kate Beckinsale shot for Esquire HD by Greg Williams.

MEN: what they say about you!

Abby Parece's beauty.

"From the underneath of your chin to valley of your breasts, I would kiss thee! I never stop dreaming of the best way to hold you, all of your positions are breath taking and for each one, I wish I was there to hold, touch, support and please you beyond anything experienced before! To you my dream weaver!" ~ William B. Johnson [Feb. 23, 2017]

Abby Parece, a former Playboy model for Mexico and South Africa, posing in July of 2016.

"The simultaneous experience of confusion and sanity, or being asleep and awake, is the realization of co-emergent wisdom. Any occurrence in one’s state of mind—any thought, feeling, or emotion—is both black and white. It is both a statement of confusion and a message of enlightened mind." ~ Willie T. Stoddard [Jan. 31, 2017]  

Abby Parece in black fishnets, in New York city, in black & white, in May of 2017!

photo by Mike Matonyc

"Minimal words express how much you impress me with your Amazing looks, color or no color you brighten any image you give us! WOW, Abby, nets and you have scored again, please take my heart any where you go! LYVM!" ~ William B. Johnson [May 16, 2017]

a busy artist.

Over the years I can't remember all the musicians, famous or not, who I've played with. Some of the musicians I've played with are very well known by your readers. I often forget their names until we show up on the same gig. Anyway, I like this story. Never heard of her. Good story, Jake. 

bassist Carol Kaye. 

By Jim Keltner

"There are times as a studio player, especially prolific studio players, where you are playing on so many kinds of songs for so many different kinds of artists, and you're doing so many covers, things can get mixed up.

I think that's what happened with Carol Kaye. She claims she played on some songs that James Jamerson had played on." 

HIGH CONCEPT

Malikah Solomon by Roland Dawson

You see a woman like Malikah Solomon, and she becomes a lady! It is a concept far outside of the thought processes common to the culture we live in that does not understand why being a lady is important or that it is conceivable. How does a lady blend strength to talent and develop the talents being a woman requires of a girl to first evolve, and lastly become? It is a riddle this paradigm, but like lost precious things understanding what is lost is understanding what is missing. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [June 09, 2017]

Malikah Solomon by Roland Dawson with bird.

Victorian style of a Colored woman.

"A white woman's beauty, like this, is arresting! Is it a dream, a substance from words shaped by intention. What has transformed women has transformed the concept of white women, in thoughtful ways." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [June 09, 2017]

Vic Marie by Roland Dawson in my estimation is a body of working knowledge about herself discovering the components that make unique her place in a world hostile to what is strongest within her. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6/09/17

VicMarie Jessie, Roland Dawson, in my estimation, has done profound work interpreting and understanding elements about you through his camera. He captured the dare, the quest, the boldness, the potential and the strength that silently holds together identity on your terms. The two of you create well together! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6/09/17

OF the many: 2 things to ponder.

ONE

I am looking for the right word or phrase. It would be for the better way to express an absurdity, a trifleness centered around President Trump and his inability to care or to have acquired integrity. It was apparent to all, but the millions of white folks who need to believe in the supremacy of their lowest common denominator: poor white trash. In this equation is the assumption among those opposed to him feeling the need to dispute everything Trump does with over emphasis on how much better their view is to his. I share this belief because it is clear where the spirit of said Trump is too painfully a part of American history; thus predictable.

But, in respect to this controversy about the man not calling dead soldier's families, there is no respect in the man for others. Trump, let's say, understands one thing about the military Americans like to not believe: soldiers are cannon fodder. Not having an internal structure of character, of a man in the deep sense of the word; it is inconceivable to expect the man to demonstrate care. It is not part of his make up. Anything gained by someone making his behavior better is inconclusive evidence that the integrity and manners we teach our children was not part of his mentality.

Wishful thinking is not policy. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [Oct. 22, 2017] 

TWO

On this day October 22, 1906, 'Three thousand African Americans demonstrate and nearly riot in front of the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to protest a theatrical presentation of Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel that glorified the Ku Klux Klan.

While attending a performance of the play earlier that day, African Americans seated in the segregated balcony had hurled eggs at the actors on the stage. By nighttime, protesters were out shouting against the play. Local clergy members took the lead in the protest, claiming that The Clansman depicted people of African descent as "beast[s] of the jungle" and the play encouraged whites to lynch African Americans. 

After the clergy demanded a meeting with Mayor John Weaver, they were able to have the remaining scheduled performances of the play cancelled -at least until the following year.

The Clansman book later became the basis for D. W. Griffith's racist film, Birth of a Nation.'


- Karen Juanita Carrillo / pp 306-307 African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events

Deception.

"From the outset, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has incorrectly presumed the stupidity of Africans and others who are concerned about the continent. To answer accusations that the U.S. uses its military to ensure continuing imperialist domination of Africa, AFRICOM has stubbornly insisted that its sole objectives are to advise and support the armies of African government “partners” and to prov...ide humanitarian assistance. But we know the truth to be otherwise.

U.S. Army General Donald Bolduc shamelessly told NBC News: “America is not at war in Africa. But its partner forces are.” But even a soldier can recognize the farce. Former Green Beret Derek Gannon said: “[U.S. military involvement in Africa] is called Low Intensity Irregular Warfare, yet technically it’s not considered war by the Pentagon. But warfare is warfare to me.”

The U.S. maintains two facilities in Africa that qualify as military bases. However, according to NBC the U.S. increased the number of embassy-based military missions called “Offices of Security Cooperation” from nine in 2008 to 36 in 2016. Researchers say the U.S. military now has a presence in at least 49 African countries... by Mark P. Fancher 

the Crazy shit they say!

[One]

"I am not a racist" < In the top ten. Denial. #Racism #Decoded Usually followed by faux pas rationalizations.

"If stating some historical facts makes me a racist, then I suppose that I am a racist."

"And thank God white people populated America, and not the blacks. Otherwise, the US would look like Zimbabwe, which it might look like one day anyway, but at least America enjoyed 200 years in the economic and political sun under a white majority," #whitesupremacistplaybook


[Two]

Michael Scipio assembled these typical phrases for thoughtful people to think about and do something with. You can't respond to such a mind steeped that far into denial and fear laced rhetoric! Anything founded on sand has little staying power!! You let die what is dying! You focus on yourself, and develop personal power, community power and strategies... Bitchin' and crying are not strategies. They only give birth to fear laced reactions to those who have power over your lives, in real time!

What say you within the complexity of what divides whites from their reaction to karma, chickens coming home and Black Americans reeling, as if yesterday was not a long time ago when master's whip tore into black flesh? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/22/2017