What Matters To The Heart

"... big Black woman Lovely's breasts speak their language to two types of men who will hear one of two sounds in the story of the visual of her." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories Jan. 2, 2014 

Sacred Feminine Songs

"... big black woman Hershey Kiss cannot escape, it seems,  the stereotype of poverty and its effect upon her spirit. If it is to be an escapable energy someone must show her different and be different. This is the plight of so many women caught up in survival from an early age before they learn viable alternatives to making money and learn to make love as a woman in love with herself, and enraptured by herself and who she is. The Elders need to teach this who have made the journeys from virginity to Eldership. The deep aspects of femininity are wrapped up in the form and substance of manhood in ways the ghetto mentality cannot grasp, and has not seen as a viable option to pimps, men running a train on a woman, and being taken for men's sake. Loving a woman and a woman loving herself are states of being both a man and a woman step into in their ascension!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.02.14 

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READ AN AUTHOR'S WORDS

Myra A. Jolivet, author 

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FOR THE CHILDREN: unlearn

Why I Dropped Out of the School Food Reform Movement and What We Need to Do Now

I have followed your blog on and off with interest. This piece you wrote is important.

If you look at your suggestions some of them come from the habit of giving power to someone else over your children. Television, for example; shut if off during the formative years, and then, if so inclined, monitor it in the later years of elementary school. But, television is not fundamental to child rearing.

In respect to food you can only exhibit or not exhibit a relationship with the Earth, our Mother. You, and other food activists and American parents are strangely separated from the land. Planting food can afford a person a relationship with the sanctity of the ancient process. Instead most people are disconnected from this worldview. In its place is the energies, and paradigms the major corporations create from. Until you are different than the spirit of the people who came here to Turtle Island from Europe you will continue to get the same results, and live in your head disconnected from both the Womb, and the land custom of an ancient way of living with the Earth, our Mother!

American's give their children away, and believe in what others can do for their children. The love of fighting I guess is so important that many parents give their children to school's, and enjoy being engaged in the complaint and leery of the solutions. I've seen it many times throughout the years I was raising my children. I don't know how mine would have fared had not their father been an Indian and an African deeply connected to his roots and our Mother, the Earth.

I know American history, and its long disdain for the way indigenous people live, but we are all suffering from what the whites brought to this land. Together we can work it out and become powerful and become a new people in the deepest sense of the word. But, the work to get there is tremendous. It begins with unlearning all we know.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.02.14


There is another suggestion. We can feed our children wholesome meals for breakfast and dinner. Lunch at school can be wonderful juices in a thermos, with a healthy something to munch on. A liquid lunch would be nice. What should coincide with food would be playtime outdoors everyday. But, American administrators are spiteful, and mean towards children. It is in their policies.They have the powers over our children in large part I suspect because what qualifies them are the attributes we tell our children they need in order to succeed. They are culturally certified, and reelected into positions of authority because of the standard we believe sanctions them as authorities! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

BLACK YOUTH PROJECT

Featured Blogger Asha (Rosa) writes for the Black Youth Project. Here is one of her articles dated June 8, 2012.

Without the Fundamentals: Illiteracy in America

Commencement yesterday was filled with encouraging speeches reminding my senior class that “commencement” is the beginning, not the end, and graduating is simply a marker that we have received and collected the tools we will need to move forward. The rhetoric of speakers, and of casual conversations on any graduation day is generally one of graciousness. However, it is rare that we fully comprehend how much of a privilege it is to know that a solid educational foundation lies behind the writing on a paper diploma.

At my high school, teachers would remind us of the growing importance of education as a factor in the job market, encouraging us to plan a future that includes continuing our education after the four-year college career, which is strictly expected. Rightly pointed out, education is hugely fundamental in the job market. Still, illiteracy among Americans remains extremely prevalent. Fifty-three percent of adults in the Great Lakes area have low or limited literacy skills. Literacy is essential in almost every work environment. The many Americans faced with limited literacy skills struggle in the labor market. Low wage jobs keep 43% of people with low literacy skills in poverty.

Just a couple months ago, pictures of a misspelled school sign reading “Laeping Into Literacy” were passed around socialmedia.  A janitorial worker at the school made the mistake and it wasn’t corrected until after a weekend. Another ironic misspelling that created some internet buzz was when the word “school” was misspelled in a school crossing sign on the road in New York City. This incident was followed up with a spokesman from the Department of Transportation blaming a utility worker, claiming that the city was not responsible for the error. However, if we can hold New York City public schools partly accountable for the prevalence of illiteracy, then yes, mistakes like this one are certainly the fault of the city.

Paulo Freire said that education can function in two ways. The first is to “facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity.” In a public education system that cannot provide many Americans with adequate secondary education, nothing but conformity will arise. Without solid public education, younger generations will be provided no more opportunities than their parents were. The second function of education according to Freire can be as “practice of freedom, the means by which men and women …discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” A strong and reasonably funded public education system is just as essential to democracy as the infrastructure that makes it possible for citizens to get themselves to voting centers and cast their ballots. - Asha

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MAGIC FROM WITHIN

Maggie Smith, actress & Lady

As women walking the path to the conscious evolution of a sacred humanity, we are aware of the qualities of the Sacred Feminine in ourselves and in the world—a respect for wisdom of the natural world, of which we are a part; for the deep connection we enjoy with one another; with the ability we have to love unconditionally, as a mother loves her new born baby without having seen or knowing anything about that child; the ability to learn from one another through the use of story – stories told, heard and felt. The Sacred Feminine pays heed to the invisible realms that give birth to the inexplicable coincidences, synchronicities and serendipities that give meaning to our lives— all of which can be summed up in the term connective intimacy  

And what of the Sacred Masculine? We are all too aware of the secular masculine qualities on which our society is based— hierarchy, competition, domination and destruction, judgment, power and control over others, violence, linear thinking that is wedded to science, and a greedy consumerism as the only was to function. The ManKind Project, acknowledging the abilities and talents of the Sacred Masculine, teaches authenticity, responsibility, accountability, commitment and service as the path to follow. Such characteristics are desirable in us all and will lay the foundations of a harmonious society.


The Sacred Masculine, diverting the energies previously focused on our physical survival, can now hone in on honor, duty and respectful service— to the natural world, the global family and to the Divine, without the conviction of predetermined concepts. A penchant for scientific enquiry used in conjunction with an intuitive curiosity may lead the way to an enlightened vision of a peaceful future for all.

-Heather Mendel, author 'Dancing inthe Footsteps of Eve
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Yairi Sanomaa

If the tone of my writing suggests I am an activist, I must say that I am in fact a gardener, retired from teaching, and I play and restore string instruments. I don't aspire to anything but a greater awareness of how to do my part. In the end, that's what will be required, that each of us contribute, regardless whether our capacity is large or small.  Thank you again. Yairi.

Gregory E. Woods

Yairi, being a gardner is an act of power, an action. What better way to affect change than through the channel of Earth energies. It is a great challenge you set into the open for thoughtful consideraton. No action taken stands alone. One solution will not fix complex problems, and one element, Love, replacing the core elements that have misshapened our Mother, our Earth will shift us consciously into a better state of being.

Lois S McCoy

I, too, am a gardener. I can tell you the name of every plant that is growing inside and outside of my house. If that is an indication of power, Gregory, then it is in my 'showing up' and paying attention with both heart and mind. If we call the heart, the feminine aspect, and the mind, the masculine aspect, and, we attribute the dream, contemplation, compassion, and intuition to the feminine ... and, we attribute the ability to manifest(action), thinking, judging, and protection to the masculine, then we need both in full measure. Inside our own spirit, the heart and mind must have a very intimate relationship.

For whatever it is worth,
Grandmother

Mande woman - Rosemary

FIRE & ICE CEREMONY

Dawn Wolf's FIRE & ICE CEREMONY blog

* If you plant honesty, you will reap trust

* If you plant goodness, you will reap friends

* If you plant humility, you will reap greatness

* If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment

* If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective

* If you plant hard work, you will reap success

* If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation

* If you plant faith in God , you will reap a harvest

True Education of our Youth

My writing explores my passionate interest in the archetypal imagination, education, mysticism and activism. As an educator, I strive to work with young people from a more holistic and transformative pedagogical framework. ~ Maria Vamvalis, Toronto, Canada

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