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 

Study of the higher elements.

"A lady is many things, but as a seductress she can be bold, demanding; but a soft mood swing a man cannot resist. It is a play..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6/09/17

Yesterdays Denial...

There was no acknowledgment of this during the last presidential campaign from the Conservative Republicans! That omission is telling on the core of the ideology opposed to President Barack Obama, as a Black man!...- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Vertices & Triangulation: Unemployed, Underemployed and Labor Force Participation Rates

[Filings for unemployment benefits plunged last week to the lowest level since 1973]

"could push the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this month. Several Fed officials have in recent days suggested the U.S. central bank could increase borrowing costs soon.

“The jobs market is strengthening and we are near full employment. The Fed is worried that the jobs market will overheat and that is fanning the discussion of a March rate hike,” said Ryan Sweet, senior economist at Moody’s Analytics in Westchester, Pennsylvania"

the Story

Dame Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren is a breath of Life.

EIGHT SIGHTS

Powers beyond within.

Breathless leaves the open legs, the balance it takes to hold this asana of the man, who can be a balance to who she holds within. These powers speak beyond the obvious coming from beyond the initial urge, and the typical response seeing a woman seated thus. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Second Sight

Looking up to a woman a man loves isn't submission; it is submission of the loyalty to paradigms old and unable to work in the context of balanced relationships between the two primary elements holding Life in its myriad of forms. It is a source of power to look up at the energies stronger than ours. Even stronger is the potential of merging with those powers of the She with He. Not knowing these basics taps away at the nuances we sense until ignorance is no longer bliss, but refuge from the responsibilities of spiritual knowledge and awareness.  

Looking up to Princess Mimi Baby.

Third Sight

The Phoenix. She has a mystical place in the consciousness of humanity in various forms. How the Phoenix settles into the consciousness of each culture and each generation in different ways, through different incarnations, and people, and incidents is determined in the secrecy of intent and the trajectory of the force of words spoken. In the lexicon of the crude the Phoenix has settled to be sexual arousals. That is a low point of awareness. With no sign of evolving how will the Phoenix show up?

The Phoenix. She has a mystical place in the consciousness of humanity in various forms. How the Phoenix settles into the consciousness of Black Americans, in particular, is not far different from the rest of American society. Based in crudeness what hope has the Phoenix embodied within the Ghetto mentality? If the Phoenix is still as potent in times and eras passed she will resurface in powers Black women have forgotten they have within their wombs!

Phoenix

Fourth sight

"Child's pose is basic in Yoga. Turned into sexual arousal where does it lead that leads to enlightenment?"

Child's pose held by Nicocoa

Fifth sight

The beauty of being held and holding within are parallel experiences related to balance and touch. What isn't understood is that the postures our lives give us speak from both places.

Asana posed on a chair.

Sixth sight

Rick White asked, "When you got 3 baby mammas 2 felonies, no car, no job and tear drop tattoos."


What you have is a challenge and crisis. What are you going to change? Who are and where will you find yourself after this admission? Will you remain outside of yourself, or cling to an identity that sounds like: you got 3 baby mammas, 2 felonies, no car, no job and tear drop tattoos.

What you've got is bodies, lack of courage to become self-employed, and an unwillingness to learn how money works, and you have the challenge to learn how to be a man, to be a father. Being a felon means, according to the The United States Constitution, you are a slave. So, how will you get your freedom? This is what Harriet Tubman asked each person who wanted to travel north to freedom from slavery, from cruel, self-serving white men. What will you do; what questions will you answer with the warrior spirit your life has shown?

These are my gifts to you. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Asana held on purpose easily.

Asana held by a woman in an airport lounge.

Seventh sight

"Peace and tranquility can be contained and released. Asanas hold this challenge without judging a soul. "- Gregory E. Woods (Dawn Wolf), Keeper of Stories 6/05/17

Cherokee D'Ass in colors over a supreme form.

Eighth sight

Poetry of form in colors a Black woman wears is an essence other women cannot imitate, have, or own. What other women should take away from the experience of being in awe of African women is to be themselves. Creator gave a gift to unravel. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Black Woman, a theme.

A strong and gentle way of being a Black woman. photography by Roland Dawson

Wish I could tell the story. This woman embodies the elusive and powerful pull typical of Black American women, common in African women and not within other women, who have their own persuasions of being otherworldly and within types of beauty to be enjoyed and explored! This story of alternative versions of being a Black woman ventures towards an art form made more intriguing in a way that sits you down to listen.

The other photographs of this woman, Roland Dawson have the same story, but different chapters and shapes to empower in very subtle ways.

One thing I am trying to say is that the model here has a strong and gentle way of being a Black woman! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/17/17 

A strong way of being a Black woman. photographer Roland Dawson. 2016

A powerful way of being. photo by Roland Dawson.

C L A S S

Nancy Wilson by Jack Vartoogian honored at the Kennedy Center 2013

Nancy Wilson is the epitome of elegance, and what I call: "Ladyship". Elegance is important and neglected in the development of girls into women, and amongst women a major flaw they seem, for the most part, unaware of why and how this is fundamental to the role of being a woman. If the female is out of balance and they are married to the creative process of life continuing in the profound and fundamental way that births at all levels Creator design for life to dance with death towards resurrection to life again. If we understand what happened to white women from Europe we can see why the dysfunction plaguing the lives of American women's sense of self and place and significance began there and how it holds dominance in the insignificance women battle against in male dominated value systems.

The indigenous peoples of Turtle Island are invisible to American citizens. The African Diaspora , weighed down by the history of terror inflicted upon the soul of the women birth this legacy, this dichotomy to each child into families broken by our relationship with these people. Still embraced by the changes white women forced on our thinking, and sense of self we cannot find 'salvation' in their approach to the fundamentals of the feminine place in Creation. Our salvation is in 'unlearning' everything we learned from them. This is the initial discipline missed in our assessment of what we should do to connect with what matters to us, and from our ancient times remember what we knew, and what compelled the European to travel hundreds of miles to learn from the universities in North Africa.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
June 03, 2017

Nancy Wilson, the epitome of a Lady.