Butt, of all things.

Kevin Spacey is one of my favorite actors. It was the television series, Wise Guys, I first saw the man in action. It was a serious performance as a sick, wicked head of a criminal enterprise he played. I watched it many times over the decades since, and tried to see everything he has been a part of as an actor. There is something seamless in his link between the inner worlds his characterizations come from and the tenuous hold he seems to have on hard life as a physical state of being. Being himself he easily fit into the identity of a semblance of a man; probably a gay man we thought. He wasn't a personal part of my life and therefore no threat, or potential threat to my children or young relatives; so it didn't matter.

But, his homosexuality has come to the forefront after being accused by a now grown actor, Anthony Rapp, of trying to hump him when he was a 14 year old boy. Spacey, 26 at the time, escaped the ass whipping he deserved and the boy left the impression from his telling that something happened changing him. It lingered so long in the boy's life into adulthood.

Spacey's admission was troubling, yes, but his way of pointing to the connection between sexual predation over children and adult gay life will not be drawn by public figures, into conversation. Who will protect the children in the striving, the 'fight' for 'Gay rights'? So far, not in the cards. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/31/17 

Marilyn IN French

"Avec tout mon respect Madame. Marilyn Monroe elle est magnifique je l'avais jamais vu celle-là c'est la première fois que je vois cette photo je vous adore et merci beaucoup gros bisous à vous et toute la famille à tous ceux que vous aimez et à tous vous aimez." - Momo Bensalem  

Marilyn dans sa chambre du 'Beverly Carlton Hôtel', sous l'objectif du photographe Philippe HALSMAN

Marilyn Monroe 1957 by Sam Shaw seated next to a Colored woman

was a statement during Jim Crow days.

Marilyn Monroe seductively eating chocolate. She needed chocolate in her. She might've lived longer, and better with the right Black man. But, those were Jim Crow's days. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.29.17

How Famous White Women were.

Marie Windsor

Windsor also had large roles in film noirs including The Sniper, The Narrow Margin, City That Never Sleeps and Stanley Kubrick's heist movie The Killing playing Elisha Cook Jr. ' s scheming wife. 

Marie Windsor, actress 

Jo Ann Pflug (born May 2, 1940) is a former American motion picture and television actress, who retired in 1997.

See African Fashion

African fashion.

La créatrice de cette marqué Yanai est la Zimbabwéenne designer, Tapiwa Zandile Mudekunye!!!

Belle découverte que celle de la marqué Zimbabwéenne Yanai. La créatrice de cette marqué est la designer et styliste Tapiwa Zandile Mudekunye. 

Le message clé véhiculé par Yanai: faire émerger une ligne de vêtements chic, versatile et abordable.

Avec des vêtements qui peuvent être portés à toute occasion, aussi bien pour la plage que pour des réunions formelles dans le cadre profressionnel, Yanai met en avant la versatilité des imprimés. La marque prouve ainsi qu’il est possible de décliner les imprimés Africains sous plusieurs formes et en faire une mode chic et trendy. 

Plusieurs coups de coeur dans la collection Yanai, s’il fallait en choisir une seule, ce serait les tops tout simples destructurés. Ce qu’on apprécie par dessus tout, c’est le fait que la marque s’intéresse aussi bien aux tenues casual qu’aux tenues plus habillées. De quoi pouvoir y trouver des vêtements pour toutes occasions. ~ author 

- Site web Yanai | Page Facebook Yanai

La créatrice de cette marqué Yanai est la Zimbabwéenne designer, Tapiwa Zandile Mudekunye 

jeans. La créatrice de cette marqué Yanai est la Zimbabwéenne designer, Tapiwa Zandile Mudekunye!

African fashion. La créatrice de cette marqué Yanai est la Zimbabwéenne designer, Tapiwa Zandile Mudekunye.  

Her Birth Day: a Star

Melba Moore, actress and singer was born October 29, 1945 in New York.

Her Work.

Urth Eagle

enveloped in the marrow of bellicose hope,
I gnash fiercely at my apprehension,
ravaging out at my raging fear,
for neither has power to overtake Love's remaining here,
-Her sufficiently nurturing & comforting potential,...
-Her magnitude....

nor, bold enough to overcome Her battles of radiance,
as She's superseding the darkness that dwells withIn me,
giving my fragmented, though treasured heart home,
dressed up, manicured keloids,
surrounded by crimson brick-fenced ribs,
I buried her here...
again...
in the shadows of dried tears & suppressed desires...
yet, steel beam glimmers of Her brilliance,
permeate through the bantam spaces, I never wanted revealed,
stretching cracks wide open, exposing my mended, fractured soul,
sealed; Yet, Her lustrous hope peers through, into my marrow,
into the pits of my lost faith....in..something,
even though, never 'truly' Love....
into the pits of my dreams, where trust 'isn't' broken...

even while thinking to choose to hate Love,
She surpasses all assaults, any attacks,
all attempted havoc upon Her BeIng,
taking many beatings, knowing Her endurance is never-ending,
while I'm seeking Her demise,
She's on an internal, eternal journey,
building stronger,
revealing adulation for Love,
showing me that the truly achieved is worth all the the tears I've bleed,
the hell my body & soul placed at stake, to embalm Her deep to rest,
...for dead.
'She's always known,
'This' darkness is where Her deepest roots are lain
to sprout new & resurrect what sleeps withIn
Love

© LeTisha.W. Bowie. All Rights Reserved

Sports Race

Dallas football team. photo by Roland Dawson. 

"Football in the South is the history of race in the South. The Dallas Cowboys football team enjoyed being the pride of the South, as their representation in the league! The Washington DC team settled into the District of Columbia to become the Southern competition of the Cowboys! From the city named in honor of Christopher Columbus, and his murder/slavery legacy, and the link between this history and the South's commitment to those same values, the football games can continue their allegiance with this value system. But, that is the perspective of an Indian man, whose recollections in this equation is of no importance in the game of football and the culture of the fans, who play their part in this social construct!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/26/17 

Old man, Old Chief

Dr. Joe Medicine Crow the last Plains Indian War Chief. He turned 102 on 27 Oct 2015

Holy man on a sandbar on a boat.

2 boys at Intertribal dance in 2011.

body in view.

Playboy model, Abby Parece in these colors.

Admiring former Playboy model, Abby Parece, William B. Johnson has ways of 'seeing' her ranked far above the usual banter most men give seeing her photographs. Struck by the colors, I guess, and other factors he kept to himself he wrote, "I am always ready for a swim with the most beautiful Mermaid on earth, now we can make it better, if you wish to have legs, wish it come on land and we can share conversation and wine with dinner, candlelight of course! You well need to get out of that swim suit first?"

Playboy model, Abby Parece in these colors. 2

Memorable!

"Negro woman's classic beauty in her time captivated, in secret, so many white men hesitant to share their inner yearnings in the social climate of Jim Crow..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Nije Durdeen by Roland Dawson (2015) in black dress.

Remy Ho-sang by Roland Dawson

[January 23, 2016 ] 

Daughters in the vague, as vogue.

We all love innocence until it becomes stupid to be ignorant of the events swirling around us, as people are doing daily. It doesn't matter how many, or how brutally people are killed being distracted while driving, walking, riding public transportation or jogging in isolated areas; people insist upon their conveniences. It is more important than freedom.

Cell phone usage keeps women from noticing the energetic probes of danger, or admiration sent to them energetically. It is a strange thing, but it lifts predators from excessive caution while studying prey. Stalking without drawing attention to self is a skill with minimal usage in today's world with the consuming power of cell phones' illusion of necessity and identity. Easiest of targets are children and women.

"Do we help them?" a protector asks. The expected answer is yes; but 'why' as the second question leads us to a conclusion: if Life isn't precious why protect them? Protecting them from themselves is the task, and weighed against that task is it worth it?


Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories
[July 28, 2017] 

"Celebrating new freedom is always a joyous occasion. Let it be couched and coached by wisdom, seen by foresight, and through insight gauge who is admiring you!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

A look at Vic Marie

VicMarie Jessie. by Roland Dawson

2017. 

VicMarie Jessie. by Roland Dawson in the shadows of grey and black. 

Vic Marie Artistry by Roland Dawson !!!!

WHAT WE ARE RESPSONSIBLE FOR!

Gregory E. Woods walking in Daddy's spirit. I was in a park in Bowie, MD.

We were conducting a relaxed manhood session in March 2017.

Willie T. Stoddard likes to write profound observations as comment, or reaction to the beauty of former Playboy model, Abby Parece's photos. I have read a few of them. But, this one he wrote angered the woman! She said, "Did this make you feel better to waste your time writing tons of nonsense in my page over a damn quote from a movie. 😂 pathetic!" Four other men sided with her. I wanted to ask if the words were from a movie and if so what was the movie? It wasn't what I really wanted to know, but online people tend to be frivolous without articulation that merits the concentration of thought. These are the following words the model detested, Mr. Stoddard wrote:

"In Western psychology, some approaches stress the importance of reinforcing ego to enhance self-esteem. We may misinterpret this to mean that we should promote ourselves at the expense of others. A person may become very self-centered with this attitude. It is like you are saying to the world, “Don’t you know who I am? I am what I am. If I’m attacked for that, that’s too bad. I’m on the side of the right.” You feel justified in what you’re doing, as if you had God on your side, or at least law and order on your side.


Perhaps we should reexamine these assumptions, to see what really works. We need to investigate whether it’s beneficial to build ourselves up, especially to do so by putting others down. We need to seriously question what is harmful and what is beneficial. In my own experience, I have found that employing a self-centered approach and being constantly on the defensive are not helpful.


Rather than reinforcing our “me-ness” and justifying ourselves constantly, we should base our lives on something more powerful and trustworthy. If we develop real trust in ourselves, constant self-defense is no longer required. That may sound good, but what are we going to trust in ourselves? To begin with, we need to look within ourselves. When we look, what do we see? Ask yourself: Is there something worthwhile and trustworthy in me? Of course there is! But it’s so simple that we tend to miss it or discount it. When we look into ourselves we tend to fixate on our neurosis, restlessness, and aggression. Or we might fixate on how wonderful, accomplished, and invulnerable we are, but those feelings are usually superficial, covering up our insecurities."

Whatever the man's intention was I found a decent rant that has tremendous insight into the psychology of white people. In the simplest terms it shows a profound lack of soul my Ancients were well aware of centuries ago. What is missing is Ubuntu. Americans subscribing to Western psychology cannot resolve their major obstacles to clear thinking, or unravel the chaos Trump brought to the world stage, nor understand the Catch-22 of their thinking into action because of the distance between where they live in their cultural stories, and where the standard Ubuntu resides. Why this is, is found in unearthing what belief in Christianity did to the Europeans in centuries past!

What Ubuntu is lives in the stories throughout the African cultures that embrace Ubuntu deep in the marrow of their bones and the fabric of their souls.


"A white man visiting a small African village was playing with the children. To make the game interesting he told the children he would give the winner of the race a bag of candy. The kids lined up and raced to the tree. The winner was given the bag. The winner surrounded by the other children eating the candy with him was so happy, but the white man was confused. He didn't understand why the children were sharing the victory. They told him, "Ubuntu!"

What they embodied was this: "I am because we are!"

This is an incomprehensible way of relationship for us in the West. The momentum of world peace flows towards Ubuntu, but deep peace is too distant from the relationship of taking, and war as a way of life. We are the greatest producers of killers, graduating thousands from high school each year, who for the most part don't kill, but ache to kill. Killing feeds the killers and the culture of high level of violence governing the U.S. plagues the conscience of many citizens, but not to the point of core changes taking place. We are comfortable with toying with ideas, but reluctant to be the change at the core level of being. The hope is that ideals will become reality without the prerequisite spiritual work taking place within us, and nationally we cannot deter from what was begun in the long ago when European countries sailed across the Atlantic ocean.  


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
June 12, 2017

Abby Parece. Sneak a peak.

a Profound thought:

Given the historical and global position white women hold as the ideal it is hard to understand when and why they slump their shoulders! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.8.15

Poor Unrighteous Teachers

Intermitting sometime, I still ask, If Racism is taught, who taught the first racist? ●◎● Anyhoo, “You are my slave.” ● "School officials say there will be no more Civil War-related student dress-up activities at a Georgia elementary school after its “Civil War Day” sparked conflict among students, parents and others.

Big Shanty Elementary School last month invited fifth-graders to dress up as characters from the war. {Yes, in 2017]

The mother of a 10-year-old black child says a white student dressed as a plantation owner approached him and said, “You are my slave.”

In a Thursday letter to the mother, Corrie Davis, a Cobb County assistant superintendent assured that student dress-up activities related to the Civil War have come to an end at the school about 25 miles northwest of Atlanta.

With more than 110,000 students, Cobb County is Georgia’s second-largest school system." 

~ Michael Scipio  

It annoys and angers and lastly saddens me how shallow the approach to history is popular today. It is weak-kneed. Black and white parents and teachers haven't the strong character or the scholarship to match the imagination it takes to teach at each level what a child needs to understand about his country; this country.

We are paying a price for this level of mimicry of righteousness, and the cowardice of the adults in this country that is the most violent and intimidating nation on the planet! Trying to tidy up a dark past is impossible to do. The European and the Euro-Americans wrote everything down. The record of their exploiting, killing and taking have always been sources of pride and their achievement by blood is what makes American great; it is 'the' thing Americans are most proud of. It is a helluva contradiction, but lying about it and carrying on like we are 'sensitive' is hypocrisy, and laughable.

In the end citizens look weak and pitiful. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Oct. 22, 2017) 

The teacher is important in the education of a child.  

The teacher is important in the education of a child. What inspires boys to go to school is different from what inspires girls whom the system is made for. Boys need movement. If you won't let them play, let them imagine. If you don't develop the whole, suffer with the parts disconnected from the wholeness Life was meant to express! Resolution of this problem is as complicated as denial. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

We Know What We Don't Know.

model Mona Lisa

"The veil hides nothing, reveals in secret what it pretends to hide. It is quite the mystery." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/18/17 

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