the Hunter's Log 2

Second story


Stalking is an art form. It has become associated with terror and city streets, and abuse. During the 1980's women victims, as you know, began to gain strength and voice and stood against aggressive men who were beating and hurting them. The momentum of their stories eventually led to 'stalking laws.' The sad thing was the skill of stalking lost its mystique and sense of usefulness in urban settings because most think they are beyond the hunting stage of our evolution, and don't need the skill anymore. But, stalking is an incredible skill, and its mastery is hard earned.

Prey and hunter are in a perpetual relationship people submit to in one form or another. In our lifetimes the two roles are relationships, and roles we exchange. Each role teaches as well as each relationship alters and shifts energies within and around us. How do we learn from this is the deeper part of our courage, and ability to overcome fears and develop impeccability. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.17.13



Third story


In an effort to fit in and mask insanity I've seen homeless people pretending to have a "selfphone".  I use the term because in just a few short years the majority have lost a significant part of the feel of others. Caught up with the convenience of a cellular phone most users have no feel of the isolation which has settled deep into the conscious minds of those left out who are without homes, or who have lost their phones.

The selfphone has created selfishness, and a possessiveness most deny until a homeless person spins out of control for lack of a voice for help, or a cell phone user has lost their phone in public. No one will help them. I've seen it a number of times and the terror in people's eyes when they realize they've entered into a reality that did not exist a few years ago because there were 'public phones' that sustain the hope of being able to get help. Without a cell phone people literally lose something within.

I coined this word, selfphone, watching a homeless and desperate Asian woman in Alexandria, Virginia asking two Hispanic women to use one of their phones they'd just been using. Both women had hidden their phones seconds before she asked when they sensed she would ask. Both shook their heads no, and the look of aloneness in the Asian woman's eyes tore into me. It worsened when she asked me, and I said no because I don't own, or carry a phone. She didn't believe me, and I could not convey those words to her. She accessed and judged me along with the two women. And her judgement stung. - Gregory E. Woods


Dalya Arazi

Dalya Arazi crouched in an open field picking flowers.
March 31, 2013 

Second Note:

Women's longing to enter and explore the forests and wide open meadows are held at bay with specific thoughts. Their considerations are different from men's. It is men women adventurers have to create survival strategies for in the forests and open lands. To any man what would you do and where would your thoughts go stumbling upon the sight of a barely clad woman, gentle of face and appealing of body enjoying her day barefoot in an open field? - Gregory E. Woods 1.12.14