An Affirmation of Life meaning...

Diane von Furstenberg won the prize for Fashion Icon, while Game of Thrones actress Gwendoline Christie claimed the British actress award.

Joan Allen is a splendid woman and actress I admire.

Joan Collins' composed elegance.

“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ” ― Boris Pasternak

Joan Collins in a pool of water.

TWO Joans

Joan Collins by Coco Perez in 2012 at Vanity Fair Oscars

"Do you see the vast distance between the eras? Over the flow of decades from Joan Collins' day to the present the view, the idea and ideal of grace and elegance receded into something reflecting masculinity leaning against the feminine qualities once esteemed by the ideas men had about women. Today, the question is what are the ideals and perceptions of women about the same topics?" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3.8.16



Jordan Carver December 30, 2014
http://instagram.com/jordancarverofficial/ 

the MATH of Age & Youth



Joan Collins said she  believed Angelina Jolie was the only beautiful actress now working,
whereas Jennifer Aniston was simply cute.

"One of the privileges of old age and maturity is the gift of voice. Being able to speak one's mind, the truth and speak without fear is a gift in the world, a power from within, and a responsibility. Three things define youth; yea one is the essence of youth: the expectancy of Life, the hope for opportunity, the feeling of possibility, and a feeling that these three things are one!" ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/4/15

 

Study of Beauty is the study of Self

Joan Collins' deep embedded beauty is grace.

Studying deeper aspects of beauty inevitably led me to research the soul of development and as time has passed through and by me I notice a missing link in the development of beauty in young women and the development of women to be beautiful. I've said it before and said it different ways by implication or directly, but today beauty is emphasized in the face. What I mean is the face has become a focal point that lacks merit, expresses fear and denies fundamental truths previous generations of women employed or learned to enhance life for themselves, and unknowingly for others. I can pick any number of models, or regular women under 30, or ten years older and show you the contrast of intent.

Jade Amber is a young white model photographed by Adam King, whose work I like to think about because Adam White distorts (photoshops) young women's features face first. He doesn't, can't or won't take the story of their faces on any journey. He like many of his contemporaries removes the dimensions from women's faces. In his work their bodies somehow don't have the compliments or give feedback to the life they lived as their lives and bodies aged, and developed into an ideal. In one dimension of mystical thought the ideals of beauty are separate from the depths of beauty, or they merge and become one, or they judge each other. The interesting thing is the judgment doesn't come from the ideal, or the beauty of the ideal. Judgment comes from the observer.

The fears of dying and encroaching age align themselves with what is unknown about the third stage of every woman's life design. Of course, it is an option to become an Old Wise Woman, but women not groomed, or fashioned as they were created to live for each stage of the triangle cannot unveil the secrets they are born with; nor come to know the beauty secrets not for sale if Elders don't initiate and teach them!

It is a mysterious thing being a woman. It is a mysterious thing being a man. The deeper links between the essence of both men and women is the dependence of each upon the other to discover what is within themselves, and outside of the bondage of convention and ideals unrelated to the science and art of living deeply. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.15.14



Jade Amber
www.facebook.com/jadeamber4

elegant woman, Joan Collins 

teacher

elegant Halle Berry in blue floral dress 

elegant woman, Joan Collins, actress  

"To be an elegant woman is not the standard for poor white and Black girls in their circumstances today. It is evident all over the place. But, why and why not? Whose responsibility is to train and develop our daughters into women? With girls taught as young as six to use their bodies to get what they want from boys or men where would such a child wind up as an adult? It doesn't have to be prostitution. That field isn't the only option. Elegance with substance distinguishes each culture. Each culture's women tell the story of their world, and how they fare is either reflected or masked in women's fashion, and style and approach to their lives by their men tells the other side of lives they live or endure. Women are storytellers. Their bodies tell stories and their eyes go deeper into the stories men create for them. Their stories tell who the men of their cultures are to them, and what the men believe about women..." 

Gregory E. Woods
Keeper of Stories 
2.13.15 

1940's look for white women 

elegant Black woman - Natasha Ellie seated in a chair !!!!
2014 

Beginning of a tale

soft compelling allure by Adam King Photography 

"There is and always will be a soft rush to a whisper..." - dawn wolf, keeper of stories 9.15.14

Sofia Vergara's joyful light!

Joan Collins