Three Classic Views of 3.

Gina Bellman very happy in this garden. 

Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress, sitting on some stairs somewhere. 

Nothing beats a great pair of legs !!!!

Sophia Loren seated in wide hat elegantly!

During Jim Crow era...

Sidney Poitier with his first wife, Juanita Hardy, and their daughters.

Ruby Stevens in a publicity photo taken 

during her Broadway hoofer days.

Sophia Loren with mother during the premiere of "C'era Una Volta," 1967. 

Stop, Pause and Learn.

Femme merveilleusement belle et séduisante. (Wonderfully beautiful and attractive woman).

Gazelle Powers by Kevin Stiles as a bride. (2014)

Gaye McDonald, Jamaican model, as an alternative or derivative of African beauty. 

Either way Africa is her essence.

face of Shyna Chung by Roland Dawson. 2017

Her face peers into changes. Don't know if perception is changed by the eyes I have, or the perception of form I can play with, or her face has the mysterious capacity to shift its beauty and its focus at will this way, or that! As a child, I found few faces, like Shyna Chung's, fashioned by shifting powers with their own design to command alteration of perception, the perception of beauty, and the penetrating capacity to be seen other ways by a shift in direction!

It was hard to explain as a child, and no easier grown up! But, power of compelling faces is none lessen by any disability to describe what I think I see, say I perceive, and want to see. Again, Mr. Dawson I love the subtly of your work! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/21/17 

Sophia Loren in the movie, 'Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow' in 1963.

To Delve

Sophia Loren in red is a statement beyond belief!

Elle est trop sophistiquée pour etre vraie.

Sophia Loren: Superbe, la forme de sa bouche, ces yeux, magnifique. She was superb. The shape of her mouth, the eyes, magnificent! In any language, she held me in awe. From awe to wondering about mysterious things towards trying to grasp the impossible to hold; an embrace within a concept of humanity balancing all I may wonder about! The women who are like this come from what was imagined in designs Creatress established to mold formlessness into form for the eyes to look at one moment, perceive another, and be transformed by in another moment. 

This is really something to be pleased with: not knowing everything! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories April 5, 2018 

Sophia Loren. Superbe, la forme de sa bouche, ces yeux, magnifique. She was superb. The shape of her mouth, the eyes, magnificent! In any language she held me in awe trying to grasp the impossible: to keep an embrace. . . - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/5/18 

Fathom This.

[This] Black maxi dress with a form fit on her wonderful form, featuring a deep V neck line accentuates ample breasts. 3/4 off the shoulder and a ruffled bottom with a front slit is too sexy. Big boned Black women are often too much to take in, take on and too much to ignore for simple and complex reasons. It has to do with power, perception and history. Respect her, these elements, who she is and the history of who Africa's cultures are that reside here on Turtle Island within Black American women. Whether educated, or a ghetto chick Black women are reasons, parables, studies of contrasts, and contradictions, and rhyme in their complex ways of being women and ladies when they ascend to that level of being. 

Remember and respect this!

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
July 31, 2018

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Gallery: Women with Melanin

Sophia Loren's perfect legs in the Italian sunlight! 

Black woman in white dress flowing through a park in heels!

Unbelievable is Her

Sophia Loren's unbelievably beautiful legs!!!

FOCUS three

Sophia Loren in the mirror. 

The mirrors we face: mirrors of self within and the mirror of ourselves in others reflecting what we need to see, don't want to see, or pretend to see. It is illusion. Water, before mirrors were in use, did the same showing our Ancients how they looked; but water is the substance of mirrors fixated, but appearing not to move. The illusion in mirrors is the illusion in movement being stillness and the stillness moving undetected in movement is the illusion we hold within our contradictions. Ain't that something? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/5/18

Something elegant about and within Nikki Pash in this Aelkemi dress and the vintage earrings. Don't know what it is but it has emotion to it! If identified something will be learned. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

FOCUS two

Mirrors of one Sophia Loren. 

Mirrors we face: mirrors of self within and the mirror of ourselves in others reflect what we need to see, don't want to see, and pretend to see. It is all illusion. Water before mirrors did the same showing us how we looked, but water is the substance of mirrors fixated, but appearing not to move. The illusion in movement is stillness and the stillness moving undetected in movement is the illusion we hold within our contradictions. - Gregory E. Woods (Dawn Wolf) Keeper of Stories 4/5/18  

Some women's mystique is too hard to comprehend.

Understanding This!

Elegant Sophia Loren speaks to the soul of an art form feminine of nature in the nature of women hushed in popular "culture." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/6/18 

Eartha Kitt in 1962.

Ecstasy Model. "They didn't tell you I was a savage." Fashion style by theerealkarlaj.

Eartha Kitt's fire either smoldered, or was ablaze. How rape and rejection shaped her mood, tightened her grip on reality and defined her power was forever intriguing. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 6.8.17

of Her, about Her!

Sophia Loren was one of those women who stopped time, made it stand still, and stilled the rush she engineered in the most innocent of ways in those who admired her, long for her and were in awe of what they could not touch with a touch! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/4/18 

Color of Light Knowing...

Perfection has its own understanding of beauty. Perception, as it is, sees perfection in beauty not by choice, but by reaction to the awe a woman, like Sophia Loren, inspires! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Divine within Isabella is beauty, intelligence within her is spirit, and round about her is mystery of intelligent design... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/16/17

Elegance as defined.

hats still have relevance.

“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.” ― C. JoyBell C. 

Elegance of a woman is the stillness of her elegance, the coolness of her temperament and the way she moves easily within... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/22/17

Sophia Loren on the set of 'Judith' in 1965 wearing her trademark accessories,

dark shades, and a wide brimmed sun hat!!!!

“It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!”   ― C. JoyBell C.

Elegant Black Lady defined and ready for church at best,

taking on the world of fashion as if it were a walk!

“The black color is much deeper than to be overwhelmed by grief… Black hides everything within itself in the argument of elegance.” ― Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men

"Older Black women, as she does, question futility with a look, rebukes trifleness with a look, and in her eyes tells a story a 'man' needs to hear." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Celebrate her birthday today!

Perfection has its own understanding of beauty. Perception, as it is, sees perfection in beauty not by choice, but by reaction to the awe a woman, like Sophia Loren, inspires! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories June 07, 2017

Sophia Loren's luxurious beauty.

VIEW of FOUR

Virginia Madsen is one of those simply and utterly gorgeous women whose voice coincides with the visual. Beautiful women have the capacity to tangle the emotions reacting to the beauty. Looking into her eyes it isn't the color you see, it is the concentric circles made intelligently by what was learned, what was perceived and what became a wave of a design fashioned by living. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/4/07 

Virginia Madsen advised,

"Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy." 

beautiful legs of a beautiful woman don't stop the heart, they set the heart!! 

Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

August 4, 2017 

Sophia Loren's extraordinary beauty !!!!

Splendid beauty of Fernanda Marin, in May of 2013, emerging from the ocean,

and from a dream, the kind that mixes fantasy with esoteric knowledge.

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

August 4, 2017 

Do You Respect the Process?

Sophia Loren touched up by some photographer.

Someone touched up perfection. Ticks me off the idea of touching up vintage pictures, in particular, and currently a lot of women's photographs. It seems apparent many photographers and many women have not touched the essence of beauty, nor understand the evolutionary processes of Beauty as a concept, an ideal, or a state of being! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [August 04, 2017] 

Beyond words.

Some women leave no words to say.

Sophia Loren's pretty legs !!!!

Sophia Loren showing her legs.

They are, and were outstanding and memorable!!

Sophia Loren in a mirror. Aloofness, a woman's mystique, and her legacy are for women to probe, and men to respect. There is more, but people stuck on mere looks miss out on what evolves from knowing what this subject is. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 6.26.17

eyes See you.

Sophia Loren 2

We have all known women whose eyes were composed, whose thoughts seemed to come solely through her gaze, and who judged, condemned, praised and exalted men by the look in their eyes!

These women soundlessly shape our lives. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/17/17













Beautés Classiques 

Elizabeth Taylor's eyes.

She as photographers see...

modeling for FRUK Magazine, Malii Boo © Tobias Hibbs 2017

a Black woman photographed by Roland Dawson.

Colored woman by Tobias Hibbs. May 2011.

photographer David Lazar 'Girl With Green Eyes Taken' in Bangladesh

Sophia Loren, born as Sofia Scicolone in Rome, Italy, on September 20, 1934.