Goodbye Nancy

TRIBUTE 

This passing really got to me. In my era, Nancy Wilson set a high standard copied by millions of Black women. In those days, white men held death over Black lives that didn't matter to them. One of the distinctive elements impossible to touch, or harm women like Nancy Wilson was an intangible passed down grandmother to granddaughter...

She was a powerful influence on me as a man, and a musician. Since, my start in music Nancy Wilson was one of my favorite singers in the world and there were only five. But, I have side stepped my grief for a moment. I had a big gig maybe a decade or so ago where she was one of the major artists. My wife wanted to go see her sound check.

I didn't want to. I'd been in many sound checks. But, that wasn't the reason.

When we left the stage I'd been performing we walked to Nancy Wilson's stage. The cats playing with her I was very familiar with, and had admired a long time. After the trio's sound check Nancy Wilson came out for hers. I about passed out. I whispered into Jan's ear, and said, "Jan, that's your only competition. If she beckons consider me gone." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of the Drum 12/17/18

Nancy Wilson, June 29, 2007, performs at her Swingin' 70th Birthday party 

at Carnegie Hall in New York city. photo by Rick Maiman. 

"This is around the time, the only time I shared a venue with Nancy Wilson." 

IN the Wings of time: spaciousness.

Je crois qu’il y a pas de meilleur moment que quand nos efforts sont récompensés! 

I think there is no better time than when our efforts are rewarded!! 

Older women are enchanting when a man has grown into his manhood exploring the possibilities of knowing himself in a true form. Sexually, older women's allure isn't tender, it is strong. Its strength strengthens the loins with something that can get to a man with understanding! This is incomprehensible to youth. To young manhood it is too vague a notion with the hot fires of lust burning from need, need burning with multiple opportunities to get laid. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/27/18

Iman by Douglas Friedman at age 60.

"Black woman with ageless beauty and timeless play with her mortality."

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3/27/18 

An older woman once told me that men are more drawn to younger women, I said in my "fake smooth" pose, "Well maybe, but some women have a 'girlish smile' that lasts a lifetime". This photo reminds me of the smile she gave me in response to my comment.

~ Caviar Nolastname writing about Sister Silver Foxes.  

Sade at 56 years of age.

Nancy Wilson age 78.

69 year old Susan Sarandon, the marvel of

Unbelievable and timeless beauty of Frances Fisher, actress, in 2012.

Grace Zabriskie as Old Crone

60 year old Dominique Daoust was

a celebrated model in the 1980's!

Dominique Daoust, age 60. In the 80s, Daoust performed in the runway shows of the late Georges Levesque. A celebrated Montreal designer, she also walked for Jean Paul Gauthier in the Mega Show Rendezvous ’87…Today she works as an actress. ~ anon 

C L A S S

Nancy Wilson by Jack Vartoogian honored at the Kennedy Center 2013

Nancy Wilson is the epitome of elegance, and what I call: "Ladyship". Elegance is important and neglected in the development of girls into women, and amongst women a major flaw they seem, for the most part, unaware of why and how this is fundamental to the role of being a woman. If the female is out of balance and they are married to the creative process of life continuing in the profound and fundamental way that births at all levels Creator design for life to dance with death towards resurrection to life again. If we understand what happened to white women from Europe we can see why the dysfunction plaguing the lives of American women's sense of self and place and significance began there and how it holds dominance in the insignificance women battle against in male dominated value systems.

The indigenous peoples of Turtle Island are invisible to American citizens. The African Diaspora , weighed down by the history of terror inflicted upon the soul of the women birth this legacy, this dichotomy to each child into families broken by our relationship with these people. Still embraced by the changes white women forced on our thinking, and sense of self we cannot find 'salvation' in their approach to the fundamentals of the feminine place in Creation. Our salvation is in 'unlearning' everything we learned from them. This is the initial discipline missed in our assessment of what we should do to connect with what matters to us, and from our ancient times remember what we knew, and what compelled the European to travel hundreds of miles to learn from the universities in North Africa.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
June 03, 2017

Nancy Wilson, the epitome of a Lady.

Depth to Beauty



Nancy Wilson, the ideal of womanhood

naked purity

 

Nikki Woods

comedians Lynn Whitfield, and Sinbad in studio with Nikki Woods
THE TOM JOYNER MORNING SHOW
in December 2008

Nikki Woods, senior producer Tom Joyner Morning Show 

"Elegance is a moving forward motion. It isn't stagnant, or complacent. It has to expand or nudge a person into internal actions that grow, and create the space to transcend the dynamics of just being good at something or looking good. Nancy Wilson, the singer, embodies elegance this way, and it is in the work you do, and the photographer captured it in many of your pictures. It comes out of you, and for your children it teaches them on a daily basis." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories  9.07.12


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