LOOK DEEP into

Mrs. Tolson, I am coming from a deep place missing and thinking about your husband, David. We knew each other, and our families from our teenage years, and through until his death noting and living as deep we could with the teachings we held dearly; and closely we examined the spiritual texts and other bodies of knowledge over the years.

I have a lot to say, but I am thinking about him as a father right now. He added depth to that role, and a commitment to being a husband that was aligned with higher principles most men could not, or did not want to live. My brothers miss him. The men in our families (David's and mine) shaped all of the sons of our fathers. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [June 19, 2017]

Bishop Ralph E. Green in his old age in the church he founded, Free Gospel Church of Christ

In the deep silences of our old men, who served us in our youth live the dialogues, the instructions shared, the mistakes lived, and fathomed for the integrity of intention. There lives a deep seated knowing of how their lives lived stirred life into the hopeless, and spread fire into the stupor of inactivity. It is of tremendous pride these memories of our old strong men stir within those of us, who were the young men watching the now old ones live their convictions as men, in their time doing the work of God! What we became collectively because of our old wise men is testament to the joy of being a man developed and influenced by men, who are and were the example of a man's man!

It is becoming more of a lost art in American society: the links of the old strong men connecting the boys to what makes a boy a man, and a man a man, in the deepest sense of the word, and the word crucial to this body of knowledge is power, and the unfolding meanings of said word! Power central to being a man convinced of the certainty of his purpose leads him, being led by the unctions in his spirit, and merged, not yoked by the wife, who knows how to feed the vision, feed the man, nurture the warrior and develop the teachings within their children.

These are deep arts, as old, if not older than the arts of war; but connected to the might of exploding into a Sacred Being, by the hand of the value of a man's life! What it all means is told by the people who were changed by the lives of our old, and strong wise men; and how, and if they learned to live at all with the truths embedded in their spirits and minds by the now old men: such as Bishop Ralph E. Green! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [June 19, 2017]

Michelle Sujai from the power within. June 18, 2011.

Power is supposed to grow within a person the way light grows around knowing, and the way we feed the imagination with possibilities! When it is seen within you it excites or perplexes observers. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories  [June 19, 2017]

Michelle Sujai in 2011.

"There are things a man can see, absorb, understand and there are things a man can see, wonder about , and be unable to touch with his hands, his imagination, or with his sense of connection to the mysterious.” - Kayode June 20, 2011