Showing posts with label Jaclyn Swedberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jaclyn Swedberg. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2015

The beauty of Aloofness

Playboy's 2012 Playmate
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ADDICTION

Very few people can walk away from addictions. I've asked professionals about it, but their clinical and academic training gets in the way. Not being an addictive personality I had to watch people closely who were wrestling with their addictions. One day the hunt paid off. There was a woman I met, and grew very close to who confessed to cocaine and weed in her past.

She told me she saw something one day within her she didn't like, and simply walked away from the drugs. "How?" I asked.

Her answer was as clear and simple as yours. But there was more. There had to be more. I didn't know how to find and ask the right question, but eventually I did. Her answer to the right question was revelatory. She wasn't attached to the drugs or the lifestyle. She also did not find herself in continual bondage because, unlike most Americans who do drugs, she did not enter into the spiritual realm with pity, sadness, and the like. So leaving that life was easy. She didn't have to go through the typical 'divorce' process others went through. She just ended the relationship, and walked away! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2013

The Sexy Dimes and Faces of F.B

A queen moment. . .
June 10, 2013


Thursday, March 5, 2015

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Killers in our midst, our Bodies


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elegant Black woman in her time period 


"...In killers a point comes when rational thinking, and allegiance to the mores of society aerify. Once those things become vapor hard substances settle into the corners and crevices of the mind, discoloring the emotions, darkening the spirit of a man that was once a child. It should be a reflex to see flashes of killers when they were children. It narrows the need for revenge when they kill one of yours, or their killing adversely effects the common good. The balance of things thrown off by killings meant to be righteous revenge of a wrong the larger population is angered about supports a rickety foundation's notion of a hero. 

We create our killers. It is our natural way. It is a by-product of our system of thought. It is what we reap in our loins and our spirits. It is the American Way: killing the way we do, and when our young receive that vision without filters we get what we get much to our chagrin..." - Gregory E. Woods 12.21.14


Black Jesus in the National Church in Mexico City




Monday, July 15, 2013

TO DREAM A CHILD

Jaclyn Sedberg

Becoming a father is a life long dream to most and when it becomes a reality nothing gives a man more satisfaction than giving his child more than they had in life, knowing every sacrifice they make only ensures a greater blessing to their child. In life not one thing defines a man more than his child because they are a direct reflection of him in every way... - Sharrief Kareem Lentz


Jaclyn Swedberg was 2012 Playmate of the Year
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Friday, July 5, 2013

Assemblage Points

Jaclyn Swedberg
2012 Playmate of the Year

Assemblage points of power are engaged in various places within and without the body. How they are utilized is dependent upon the user, the person.

I was awakened by a speaker on television this morning. I normally don't listen to preachers anymore, but there was something engrossing about his presence. He seemed to be sitting in the room talking to me kindly, forcibly and intelligently captivating my life choices with brutal honesty. There is one weakness within my strength I won't speak about for any reason, but it is good to recognize its existence. Weaknesses like strengths are forces of darkness, and forces of Nature.

The pastor's name was Mike Murdock. I'd never heard of him, but I was well acquainted with the plaintive voice of Southern preachers that has been the bane of the Black Church, for reasons many don't comprehend. This man had something different within him. I heard him say he'd spent his early years in a discipline learning, re-reading, studying and eventually, under tutelage, memorized the entire Bible. He said his entire life, his thinking process, and his home are charged with continually learning. His Kindle held 500 books.

"I travel with this." he declared holding up affectionately to the camera and the audience.

As I pulled myself up from the comfort beneath my favorite thick blanket I heard him talk of his early life, but his words, "Wisdom is the study of differences." riveted me. His storytelling weaved magically from a tight constraint into open loops from story to teaching, and antedotes  and humor. He spoke of seven (7) laws. I only got four (4) because that annoying Emergency Broadcast Alert went interrupted the programming.


  1. Law of difference (what is our difference?)
  2. Law of the Mind - success starts in the mind: the mind needs focus. The mind needs instructions to better serve you, and the mind needs a hero. It needs an example to follow, and the mind needs pictures, meditation.
  3. Law of recognition (everything you want is near you.)
  4. Law of the Seed. He said, "Problems are seeds of success. When talking with anyone you need to listen for four (4) things: pain, information, the sound of honor, and desires... You have no value until you solve a problem." he said, "Something in my hand is controlling my future."
He also felt that Psalms 119 was the most important chapter in the Bible. He recommended Psalms 91 and Psalms 37 (two of my favorites) as must reads. He spoke of the promise of Isaiah 58 and Ephesians 6.

Two of the other important things he said I will leave you with:.

"If I keep what I've got that's the most it'll ever be, but if I sow it it's the least it'll ever be." 

"Delayed obedience is rebellion."

- Mike Murdock, pastor and author, SCHOOL OF WISDOM SERIES: 7 Laws you must honor:

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.20.13


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