For ye shall know this blessing.

Amy Taylor, born in 1978, stands shockingly close to an ideal, and the embodiment of a source of energies to balance within the capabilities of divinity she comes from and is.  Standing beside a wooden chair it is easy to understand how beautiful Beauty is with a soul connection to mysterious forces that create. Many of my waking hours have been awed by Beauty, and seeing her and knowing her to be alive has allowed me to see her evolution in many lives. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10.16.13

"For the length of your lifetime you will know there was a moment of perfection you lived and embodied, and knew as your own. This photograph is a witness to it. This one moment captured what one day will be mirrored back to an older woman whose beauty has evolved, and become a reflection of perfection, imperfection and a study of intangibles too numerous for an undeveloped soul to appreciate, or at the higher levels of awareness comprehend. 

This is a way a woman can travel by design." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.16.13

perfectly formed woman naked in boots.

SEDUCED IN RETROSPECT

This pose, the set up remind me of the way white women appeared to a colored man in the 1960's when they were the forbidden fruit. It is hard to explain the feel of the time, as it is hard to explain the feel of any time, or era. The clothes, the attitude and the sense of place supported the notion of entitlement white women enjoyed and embodied What they exuded was dangerous and puzzling at the same time it was appealing to Negro men, and copied with some creative alterations by Colored women at the time. The dynamic and the contrasts and the contradictions and the fears and the intended threats from white women white men in the corners and the shadows leering with anticipation of an affront were as real as the fears and the insecurity they carried beneath their surfaces.

What a story told in this photograph by Ike Lalji. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.7.13

Amy Taylor lounging in bare legged in pink heels and black shades by Ike Lalji
May 11, 2013

WATER SHOT

Amy Taylor swimming under water. Who is the photographer and how did he take this picture?
May 11, 2013

Then there is that. . .

Amy Taylor by Jon Apostal
Aug. 3, 2013

"Looking at oneself is the 'looking in'. There is the spirit of a person looking back at the person in the mirror. There is the perception, the idea there is more, and other phases, or stages of womanhood. There is that, and there is a simple glimpse into the possibilities choice brings to a mirror." - Gregory E. Woods 9.16.13

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Light comes.

Amy Taylor lounging in red
Sept. 9, 2013

"When the light of the world comes from the light within what has happened?"- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10.17.13



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Take Care of your BODY

Amy Taylor

Amy Taylor  sitting in shadow and light. Isn't this the way, the mysterious way of enlightenment: explore the darkness within so the darkness without has no powers within your body? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 10.16.13
photo: Jon Apostol

Where can we turn for help? Where can we go to learn the sacredness of the body? Where might we discover practices that can give shape to a way of life that honors the body? How can we resist the dishonoring of our bodies and intervene against the dishonoring of the bodies of others?

We can begin by looking to our neighbors. Everyday, often without any grand theories to guide them, ordinary people honor their bodies and the bodies of those around them. The family that makes time to share a meal together, in the midst of everyone's busy schedule. The man who gives his beloved a daily bath, when his beloved is living with AIDS and can no longer bathe himself. The teacher who brings music to her classroom and invites her students to dance. The teenage who gives up smoking. Women who gather in a church basement to learn techniques of self-defense. Workers who organize so that they can insist on regular breaks from repetitive manual labor. Lovers who reverence each other's nakedness. If we look, we will see all around us people honoring the body in ways that are sometimes simple, sometimes playful, sometimes heroic. But in all of these gestures and activities, however spontaneous or improvised, the sacredness of the body is encountered and clarified.

To use the sacred, of course, is to imply that we can turn to religious traditions for wisdom about the body. But what do religious traditions have to offer the lover, the worker, the caregiver, the child?...

- Stephanie Paulsell, author Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice p.4-5

Amy Taylor by Jon Apostol
standing back to camera sun to the body in front of a window.
August 3, 2013

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Amy Taylor

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AMY TAYLOR

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The business of AMY TAYLOR

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 May 12, 2013

Born December 24, 1978. Ann Taylor's interests are interesting: scuba diving, marksmanship, aviation, polo, yoga and skiing are indicative of a quick and daring mind set on motion, and consciously grounded as best an American woman can.

11714 Santa Monica Blvd. #713, Los Angeles, California 90025
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May 12, 2013

Probe into it, the illusion

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LOOK INTO ME

Ann Taylor squatting in shadows by Ian Cuttler
May 11, 2013

The mysterious mistreatment of ideas and illusions is deliberate in some people's lives because of what they were been filled with in their youth. Fear of being judged as sexy, or powerful somehow has crossed out the play of femininity and been replaced by a too strong male shield. Shields need balance as well as a warrior and a warrioress need to be balanced. One cannot carry shields to battle, or walk in a good way with them if they are not balanced.

Our spiritual shields need not only be for protection. They can tell the story of who we are in our core, our essence. Is elegance a shield? Is beauty a shield? As I get older it is clear that the gift of beauty is also a responsibility and a way of focusing the eye of one's intention upon the core of one's being. Beauty is a gift and a joy to behold! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9.7.13

Amy Taylor by Ian Cutler
May 11, 2013