see in black.

Salma Hayek short, but powerful, arrives at the Late Show with David Letterman in this outfit taking the breath out of the immediate area around her prescence. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3/19/18 

the Body

Marie McDonald

Marie McDonald (July 6, 1923 – October 21, 1965) was an American singer and actress known as "The Body Beautiful" and later nicknamed "The Body"

Betty Brosmer had the greatest hourglass figure of all time. 38-18-36 (inches) they said back in her time!

Bria Myles astride a chair.

Big boned Mexican, Maritza Mendez

Cherokee D'Ass (2016)

Jamaican lady softly clad in black lingerie with a touch of precious, a measure of dignity and an aloofness somehow engaging that brings together an intangible men need to bring into their being. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

PRIDE of Mexico

Laisha Wilkins Pérez is a Mexican actress and talk show hostess, born in Mexico City, Mexico.

Mexican actress, Ariadne Díaz in 2011.

3 eras, 4 women.

Salma Hayek reposed in elegance and assured.

Betty Brosmer.. the highest paid pin-up girl of the 1950s, considered by many as the first true supermodel.

Cher in 1974 held sway over my standard of beauty. As a woman, she was a version freed from what weighed women down at the time when women were just getting freedom to own, and have. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Halle Berry has a little ' tude to go along with all those good looks. 

Space to Magical Moments.

Alligator (Cipatli) captured with my lens on the Mayan River of Río Lagartos, Yucatan, Mexico by camera.
by Teko Alejo.

photographer Teko Alejo took this picture in Philadelphia

Taino Nation marching at the Puerto Rican parade in NYC, June 11, 2017. photographer Teko Alejo.

Success has it joys



Salma Hayek attends the "Septembers of Shiraz" film premiere in Los Angeles on June 21, 2016.
photo by Broadimage



Rosario Dawson and Scarlett Johansson attend the Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award
presentation in New York on June 20, 2016. photo by Variety

 

High Craft of Two Singers

Ninel Herrera Conde (born September 29, 1970) is a Mexican singer, actress,
and TV host known for her performances in Rebelde, Fuego En La Sangre and Mar De Amor.

Mariah Carey sings Christmas hits for first of 6 performances
at Beacon Theater Dec. 15, 2014 in NYC

 

NEW KNOWLEDGE

Ana Luisa Paredes Lara
March 2, 2013

ADULTERY or DESPERATE WANT?

“Blessings Brother Gregory, I liked the comment you posted on my foto. Obrigada! Now can you clarify this question I have. I have always asked myself or some others this and don't quite understand it fully. Please tell me, if I may ask,” Why is it that there are so many Women/Men (more so the feminine energy) out there that wait to find a man/woman that is happily in a relationship and instead of blessing the l o v e they choose to ''pounce' on a man/woman?

Why try to wreck instead of bless? In this age of "open" relationships and polygamy, I would like to say not everyone are into the cycle of polygamy and when one discovers happiness in a union why not celebrate instead of hate? lol....It is truly unfortunate that these kind of energies flow mostly amongst the females. ALL the "talk" about sisterhood and Women's rights...really is it selective? Sigh, I pray for more integrity and unity amongst Women. More love with an exceptional heart all nurtured by i n t e g r i t y and truth. Once again, thank you for your comment.” – Coco Rosario

Kym Kymberly

 “From an idealistic youth to the now I've seen, marveled and wondered about the phenomenon. The day after I married my first wife Renee said, “Women who never spoke to you are gonna come after you.”

“No.” I couldn't believe it. I wouldn't believe it. It went against the grain I measured against.

I was sheltered in some respects in my upbringing. Not only did my parents skillfully shield me from the ravages of Jim Crow I had the kind of purity that comes from a childhood of prayer, play, mischief, care, and a shield of protection I thought was the norm that allowed me to explore and explore and explore. I was a novice to the frailties of human nature, and how fragile ideals were in the face and the body of the presence of a woman full of needs, and desires, and powers as strong, if not stronger than Mother Nature herself.

I’d lost my virginity in my 20’s because of my training, and initiations into the mysteries of celibacy, and sexuality at 14 years of age. It marked me distinguishing me in ways that took decades to unravel. This isn't a boast. It is necessary background to understand my answers to the questions adultery creates.

It is the existence of truth that makes the lies of adulteries plausible, or horrifying. Adultery for both parties creates a dynamic dichotomy that is difficult to unwrap if one is a married Priest-Warrior, or a Sacred Woman in bed with another mate. I say mate because people of that calibre have a grasp upon things that rival the thinking of people dominated with predatory lust. Theirs is an alternate reality with a set of responsibilities I won’t speak of it on Facebook. Although, I suspect I might have already during my tenure on this medium.

There is an infantile need that comes up in the best of people when sexually aroused. Seen in the opposite sex it is desirable. The sexual dynamics and the bittersweet and intangible pull between men and women is the stuff, the fabric, the dynamic light that engages and captivates us all. The Puritan’s influence upon Western Christianity, and the cultural shame attached to sex we've all inherited shadows our spirits, our thinking, our bodies, our urges, and our need for sex, intimacy, sexual release, and as Marvin Gaye sang it in his song, Sexual Healing. Outside of animal attraction sexual release is expansion. But how can anything about sex be outside of animal attraction?

The great warrior, Morihei Ueshiba died in 1969. He was 83 years old. At 80 years old this master could disarm any foe, down any number of attackers, and pin an opponent with a single finger. He was a man of peace who detested fighting, and war. Morihei Ueshiba was the founder of Aikido. In his life he received three (3) visions that transformed him, and the world. He also said, “Eight (8) forces sustain creation: movement and stillness, solidification and fluidity, extension and contraction, unification and division.”

This visual is what we are born into as creative beings. We are born sensitive to the intangible fabric of what breathes into the world, what holds the world(s) together, and activates change, karma, instinct, excitement, knowing, and knowledge! On one level, which is primal, is the body speaking to another body. It cannot be stopped the communications between bodies. It occurs often into old age.What can be controlled is a person's spirit. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2013

Ana Luisa Paredes Lara
Feb. 4, 2013

Old Mexico

Nahuatl Education

Teaching Nahautl language, variente huasteca!! English and some Spanish translation....



Nahuatl man of education

Nahuatl also know as Aztec or Mexican, is the most widely spoken indigenous language of North America. It was spoken by the Mexica (Aztec) centuries ago and continues to be spoken by millions in Mexico and Central America today. It belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family of languages, a linguistic complex that is very widely diffused throughout central and northeastern Mexico as will as the American southwest. It is related to the Huichol language of Nayarit the Yaqui and Raramuri (Tarahumara) of Chihuahua, the Hopi of Arizona, the Shoshone of Wyoming, the Comanche of texas, the Luiseno of California, and the Paiute of Oklahoma.

 

The Golden Age of the language coincided with the period of Aztec dominance from the early fifteenth to the early sixteenth century during this period the language spread from central to western Mexico, to the Gulf Coast, and into Central America. Nahuatl enjoyed its greatest flowering in the valley of Mexico, where the great cities of the empire were located: Tetzcohco, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and Tlacopan, the capitals of the Mexica empire. ~ anon

Nahuatl alphabet

 

Mexican misconceptions of Black Americans

From the Los Angeles Times

A bias based on ignorance

Mexicans' views on blacks are often based on popular depictions. 
Eventually, that will change.

By Gustavo Arellano

November 25, 2007

Black-brown tensions are simultaneously overplayed and understated -- 
and I'll explain the paradox with the following embarrassing anecdote.

Years ago, a friend introduced me to an African American writer I had 
long admired. When we finally met, I tried to greet the guy with a 
soul handshake: a grip of the palms followed by the clasping of 
fingers and ending with a gentle knuckle rap. The writer, however, 
went for a conventional handshake, and his arm went limp when I 
attempted my dextral gymnastics. We both grimaced. 

"He didn't grow up in the 'hood, idiot!" my friend yelled at me after 
the awkward exchange. D'oh! I assumed all black folks greeted each 
other in that manner. Few black kids attended my overwhelmingly brown 
elementary, junior and high schools, so I based my actions toward the 
writer on pop-culture depictions of African Americans. And we all 
know how accurate those are.

Was I a bigot? No. An ignorant dope? Absolutely. And that's the lens 
through which I consider the troubles between African Americans and 
people of Mexican descent in Southern California over the last couple 
of years.

There is a problem between the two communities, and the onus falls on 
us to fix it, as we are the ones taking over black L.A.'s historical 
role as the most visible and vocal group demanding equality with 
white Anglos. But the brouhaha isn't pathological or even permanent.

Unlike most Latin American nations, Mexico doesn't have a significant 
Afro-Latino community -- about 1.5%, according to Mexican government 
figures. As a result, Afro-Mexicans don't experience ruthless 
discrimination from the population at large so much as a patronizing 
attitude that treats them as perpetual negritos -- harmless, somewhat 
amusing "darkies." 

Most of the popular depictions of Afro-Mexicans I grew up with -- 
Memín Pingüín, the lovable, dark-skinned comic-book character who 
looks like an ape, or the black characters on telenovelas or films -- 
made Stepin Fetchit seem as dignified as Cornel West. When Mexicans 
migrate to the United States and interact with African Americans, 
their attitudes toward blacks therefore ensure some degree of 
cultural misunderstanding. And it's from this dehumanizing bias that 
Mexican gang members justify their hate for innocent blacks.

But I'm optimistic. We must place such clashes in their historical 
context. Assimilation in America isn't pretty -- witness Chicago's 
ethnic wards, or "Gangs of New York." But it happens eventually. 
Think of how black culture has become part of Mexican culture. 
America's favorite Mexican song, "La Bamba," is the signature tune of 
son jarocho, a musical form created by African slaves and indigenous 
tribes in the southern Mexican state of Veracruz whose rolling 
rhythms heavily influenced mariachi. One of mariachi's most famous 
melodies, "El Son de La Negra" (Mexicans will know it by its opening, 
lilting trumpets and looping guitar strums), translates as "The Song 
of the Black Lady." And all Mexican parties eventually feature 
cumbias, the slow, tropical dances of Colombia that emerged from the 
country's rich African heritage.

In the States, the predominant audience for Los Angeles' nearly 
forgotten R&B oldies artists like Brenton Wood and the Penguins are 
second- and-third generation Chicanos. Mexicans cheer on the Lakers 
and tune in to KPWR-FM (105.9) morning-show host Big Boy. Even less-
assimilated young Mexicans get into the mixing of cultures by 
grafting Mexican regional music like banda (brass bands) and conjunto 
norteño (the one with accordions) onto hip-hop beats to create a 
future everyone can live with and shimmy to. 

Over a decade ago, Tupac Shakur wondered, "Would it be L.A. without 
Mexicans?" and urged solidarity between black and brown. Nowadays, 
whenever I hear Tupac blasted from rattling SUVs, it's usually by a 
Mexican. We learn. We assimilate. The road to racial harmony between 
the two groups isn't pretty -- wasn't I dumb for my soul shake? -- 
but it's a road, not a wall. 

Gustavo Arellano is a contributing editor to Opinion, the author of 
the book "¡Ask a Mexican!" and a staff writer for the OC Weekly.

Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times 

BE Gracious

elegant Black woman poised upon a chair 

Ana de la Reguera

Ana de la Reguera in wet t-shirt 

Natural in outside light

Rosario Dawson's natural beauty

romina-aranzola-playboy-mexico-12

4 MEXICAN MODELS

From the portrayals of Mexicans you'd never guess their first president was a Black Indian man.

Mexican model Gaby Elizalde in plane !!!!

Gaby Elizalde

Mexican model Adriana Fonseca !!!!

Adriana Fonseca

Mexican model Altair Jarabo 

Altair Jarabo

Mexican model Ana de la Reguera 

Ana de la Reguera

SHE WOLVES

African Mexican woman, Colonel Carmen Amelia Robles was a leader during the Mexican Revolution

Angela Davis, activist, scholar 

Our Problem in Caring

Misa Campo
May 5, 2013
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo in a large sombrero and a version of a traditional Mexican dress.

The Heroes of Healthcare.gov


Since the roll-out on October 1st, we've heard little more from the mainstream media than stories on how badly the Healthcare.gov website rolled out (OK, stumbled and staggeredout), how long it's taken to get to working only badly (rather than mostly not at all), and how much this largely ineffective website has cost (certainly over $600 million plus by now).  Even now, after the deadline has come and gone for the site to be'repaired', the best that anyone with an IT background will say publicly about it is that though partially incomplete, it still leaves a lot to be desired.  (What they say privately is largely in an obscene version of 'geek speak', that's wholly unintelligible and largely unprintable.) 

Now before we look too harshly on the code writers responsible however, it should be pointed out that they are mostly contractors given contradictory and constantly altering design parameters by politicians and bureaucrats who have no experience in insurance, less in administrating health care, and none at all in website design. To say that the resulting SNAFUwas probably the best that could be expected would be an understatement.  So while all of the charges that you've heard about how bad things are with Healthcare.gov are apparently true, I believe that there's more to the story and that the web designers are getting a bad rap.

Like Washington DC bureaucrats who quietly (and regularly)attempt to perpetuate monumental governmental inefficiency to keep our leaders from 'saving us to death', these unassuming geeks have apparently done all in their power to keep a website that could do incalculable damage to millions from launching or operating successfully. And what do they get for throwing themselves under the bus in the nation's defense; constant ridicule from the media, and abuse both sides of the aisle.  Distracted by stories where the website is concerned, the greater tragedy potential in website success is all but ignored.  The media spends its time arguing about how badly the band on deck is playing, while largely ignoring the fact that the Healthcare ship is sinking under this law.  

Robert Heinlein used to speak in his novels about TNSTAAFL(There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch).  Where Health Care is concerned, this 'Payment' entails:  

• Someone is going to have to pay for all those signing up who are being added to Medicaid rolls.  Whether it's Federal or State money, it's still taxpayer money.
• These Medicaid additions will put a strain on the system creating cues for doctors far longer than those currently considered a problem on the website.
• The lack of doctors will eventually force the government to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates to encourage greater doctor participation and ease the strain; further adding to the taxpayer cost of that program.
• Insurance rates are already increasing for many of those going on the sites (Federal and State) more than expected, since the greater coverage mandated in the ACA naturally includes greater costs.
• Small employers sooner, and eventually larger ones, will begin drop employee coverage or likewise increase employee costs in order to reach ACA compliance.
• Smaller network availability for those going through the website is likely to send it through the same fiscal spiral as Medicaid; quickly increasing rates and subsidies (and at the same time, debt and taxes). 

The day will come in the not-so-distant future when we will be forced to recognize the delaying action fought by these noble nerds for its true value.  (Can you say "Battle of Britain"?)  Sowing contention, confusion, and obfuscation while fighting in only their limited contractual role, it's these efforts that will be recognized for providing us the time to create a winning strategy to seal a final victory over the ACA.  One day, some may even be awarded a Presidential Pocket Protector of Freedom for largely unheralded service, but all of them will have earned the thanks of a grateful nation for turning grossly ineffectual efforts into epically failing ones.

As a student of history and a libertarian who hopes that the ACA is a doomed bit of government overreach, I am humbled by the chance to salute the gallant geeks of Healthcare.gov for their heroic efforts in the current struggle.


Posted by Timothy W Higgins at Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Sarah Shahi

I saw this actress in, what I thought was a strange movie, The Trouble with Bliss.The star of this movie was the star of the series about a serial killer who is a detective on a police force. I can't remember the show's name right now, but this actress, Sarah Shahi, had a strange and memorable role that held me captive, as brief as it was in the movie. Because of DVR I was able to freeze frame on her face and studied it thinking about a number of technical things, and the aesthetic qualities of her face. 

The movie came on again, and I waited for time to pass to catch her role again. I couldn't bear to watch the whole thing again because the main character, who stars in DEXTER, I just remembered, has mastered the droning (my term) style of his characters. I can only take but so much of it because it seems to be one-dimensional, and it isn't. Which fascinates me because his series, DEXTER, is going into its 7th season, and I am a fan of the show!! Anyway, I paid even more attention to the actress, and the co-star, a skinny white woman, Brie Larson, who stunned and frightened me with her portrayal of a sexy, loose cannon of a teenage vixen! 

There is something there deeply rooted within actors, male and female, who can plummet to such depths to become other people's insecurities, and connivings  These two actresses held the movie up for me to see the main character's role in their dramas. That's something. 

I paused the movie and walked up to my office, and looked the actresses up online (such a short cut from the old days) and found out from IMBD, that Sarah Shahi is a former National Football League cheerleader. She is best-known for her role as the Mexican-American DJ "Carmen de la Pica Morales" in the Showtime series, "The L Word" (2004), which she joined in its second season. Sarah did not renew her contract with the show for a fourth season and, consequently, her character was written out. 

Sarah Shahi was born Aahoo Jahansouz in Euless, Texas, to an Iranian father and Mexican mother. a great-great-granddaughter of the 19th-century Persian Shah, Fath Ali Shah Qajar, by Begom Khanom (daughter of Hossein Qoli Khan Afshar, niece of Begom Khanom, daughter of Emam Qoli Khan Afshar), through their son, Jahansouz Shah. 

What does that mean to an American citizen, of the conservative bent, in the political and cultural climate of these times; the 21st century? Against the backdrop of the upcoming election of 2012 how would this actress, as a woman, fare under the scrutiny of the times? Is it a relevant question? I think so, but for now it isn't because the life she has carved out for herself speaks more directly to the lineage of her people. That is important to understand in the decisions to marry someone, and start a family. In the end summations of our lives, how we love, and make people feel will be the only conversation people will have about your life.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.1.12

Her Bio

Michael C. Hall & Bria Larson in
The Trouble with Bliss

Cezara-Lucia Vlădescu

composer & singer
Cezara-Lucia Vlădescu

"i would like to explain a possible misunderstanding of my motto regarding cooking and art. not only do I consider cooking being an art, but one of the greatest. therefore since I cannot cook and as someone who creates art I carry respect for anything of a similar kind, I suck terrible at cooking. I can't even boil spaghetti. or an egg. that is why, from someone who does art to someone who creates art in form of cooking, do not make me cook. cooking it's an art and I suck at it. I can only play. this been told, hope things are a bit ... overcooked by now." - Cezara-Lucia Vlădescu

WANT SOFT ANSWERS TO HARD QUESTIONS!

I dig this: "The Culture of Life represents God living in each and every living being on Earth. The Culture of Life is made of the characteristics of Love, Peace, Harmony, Happiness, Beauty, Perfection, Purity and Truth. Humanity, Divinity, Godliness, and Naturalism are the four primary aspects of the Culture of Life..." 
© William Stokes

Ana Luisa Paredes Lara
August 13, 2011

SEDUCTION OF spirit is seduction of mind. . .

Ana de la Reguera's small tits one brother told me, tightened the grip of his imagination with the steam of passion and conditioned him to behave himself, and stand at the ready to do whatever the woman (any woman of his desire) holding him captive would say, and require. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11.24.12

NAKED Sacred Form

Ana de la Reguera naked is a Mexican actress for those who are wondering about the sensitivity of the photographer. His reflecting back to her is the resonance of sound, her sound of music written in the cloak of vulnerability, and sung in vulnerable raiment. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.23.12