HI Heels!

Tracee Ellis Ross' pretty legs in red heels and a smile! 

Some sights are too hard to believe, even looking at it isn't the same as believing what you see!

When the unbelievable is before you the struggle is one with what is seen, what is believed, and what is incomprehensible to the senses, or one's understanding of what they thought they knew. Staying on the outskirts of a vision stops merging with the Unknown. It is an initial impulse to stay fixed with the body. Our tendency is to remain physical, but it is not natural. What is natural is to go home, and to stay where one is comfortable. This is the struggle of existence. Imagine what a moment will look like on the other side of the grave is an act of power! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Jan. 18, 2019)

Skinny woman in pink heels by Arsen Lupen‎.

e s s e n c e

Sunlight upon Marley Mason. Water and light are two elements of Creation. The fire of light copulates with the element of Water to nourish Earth. Air carries these elements in circles holding Life together. She, in the strength of her youth, is potential. Direction comes from intent, intent from the Dream within born within the moment she left Mother's Womb! These elements and this story is a shared story. The question to one and all is the same: "How do we birth who we are into existence?"

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
12/12/18

Marilyn Monroe awoke

Micky Bells is baffling in her simplicity and comfortable. Europe's standard of beauty, as seen within her, launched many changes in other people's cultures. The high and exceptional standards of beauty found around the world by European men aroused and baffled them, but failed to assuage the savageness within them! After and during the rapes these early versions of depravity destroyed many women's souls, but European conquests justified the trend, and defined their legacy.

The Women's Movement, in truth, began from the bound spirits of European women, who had never seen free women before they arrived in what became known as, the New World! When they saw the Red Nations, on the shores of the Atlantic, and how women lived European women were stunned into enlightenment! They participated in the murders of these people they would dispossess, but centuries into the conquest of land and souls, their language changed. When the white women became political activists they, at times, took on the cause of slavery temporarily, and racial equality for an even briefer time period, until it no longer had advantages. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/13/18

She Lived 90 years!

Old Woman, Long Life: How? 

Claire Trevor was an American actress. She appeared in over 60 films, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo, and earning nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty and Dead End. She also received top billing in Stagecoach. She had 3 husbands and one son. She lived between these two dates: Mar 08, 1910 - Apr 08, 2000.

I wonder what death, the afterlife, birth and living was for her as an old woman, now, as a baby and how she fared as an old woman! I always wonder about those things as I age through the 12 stages of Life!

Death, like Life. is a dance you dance, or dance into or dance with. What do you do with Death? Is your life existence, driven by purpose, or an unfolding prophecy? What is it like to simply be ordinary, or crude? I don't know, but I have known and know plenty like this. Truth is I am more interested in people living in places within themselves filled with powers embracing those powers and imparting unto others!

How these questions are answered orchestrate how one dreams, thinks, believes, has sex, and conducts themselves in relation to who they are and who others are in their own lives!

How do you live? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11/18/18 

Claire Trevor, Belgium-French American actress.

God, she was elegant, and obviously from a bygone era when elegance, not crudeness, was a gift to the soul, and fundamental to the essence of a woman's bearing!... It is harder to impart this sensibility into girls today for reasons their parents and their adults need to uproot themselves... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/16/18 

Claire Trevor, Belgium-French American actress b. 1910 !!!!

Claire Trevor, actress, lived a long time! She was 90 when she died. She would never have crossed the color line for love. She would have faded into contempt, loss favor and jobs. Her marital years would have lent no understanding in her favor had she... ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/18/18

WHEN WE AWAKEN. (2.)

"Some things are just average, other things are spellbinding!"

Dancing in a mint pirouette midi skirt from fall collection by Shabby Apple.

face of an older woman who has lived. when many awaken to old age they realize their bodies, and their faces tell stories; have told stories or is a reference for young women needing guidance. plastic surgery is fear, the mask of fear people pay for. afraid of death their angst is their denial, their denial a form of death hastening the process. fear of old age is a lack of power, and successfully keeps clarity a distance away from the substance that holds the sacred circle. 

naked dance of Flora & Mike 2

Quiet is stillness. There is movement in stillness. The Hunter is meditative in the stillness required. The perspective of those hunting is to listen to the calm in the air not altered by the fear from the hunted. These are subtle elements in the dangerous game played to remain in existence. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/22/18

exquisite beauty of this woman is sharp, highly intelligent and piercing.

Not every tool is needed in the enforcement of law. Pepper spray is not an essential tool protecting life, or restraining dark forces. Impeccability is the element and knowing subtle things about perception as power commands, and controls intent... 

There is a profound teaching knowing how to control one's spirit. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Negro woman watering her plant. 

circa. mid-20th century. Jim Crow era. 

The presence within Beauty is the soul seeing itself for what it is worth at the time. In deep moments of doubt Beauty grows into the places sorrowing for comfort in the places isolation, or indifference can place a soul, at times in one's lifetime.

"How will we die?" moments like this will ask sometimes. "How will we live after revived by Beauty?" is another question asked in stillness. On the other hand, or other side of the equation, Darth Vader's feminine side, may look like this. It is a profound thing to ponder. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/23/18 

Forces In Natures.

Eva Mendes' exquisite beauty alongside her apparent joy within her living Life, adds to her appeal... Where does that go after death, to a child entering this life? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Powers of this African woman wearing a handmade outfit from the 

Neema Mansaray Kollection with fabric from Ghana... This is a Mende dress.

The deep force of this white woman's face is the beauty that has grabbed and captivated imaginations, not because it is more spectacular; it is framed inside of a history of survival. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Hat coolly worn by this woman is different in respect to her African heritage. It feels different, her style of being from her essence, from white women's projections via fashion! White women can wear African clothes, not the essence can the clothes wear. They, as anyone else, can only wear who they are in essence...  - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

A lady, an African lady!

Dark woman. God, she is engaged in her life!

Yesterday I thought this...

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I wish I, or someone knew what we are looking at that occurred so long ago.. It is disturbing looking backwards into Time, as someone else knew their time on Earth before they died, as we all do to leave this plane of existence. Photography is powerful in its ability to hold time still in one place without touching, or altering the fact, the quality and essence of a moment... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories.

9/1/18

2 point out.

Storytelling of this sort is terrifying because it ends with aging and death. Unable to see, and embrace sacred process the ability to embody spiritual powers is neglected in the process of 'raising' children, and not part of the practice of living in American culture. It began this way. Unexamined millions of tragedies feed each other to sustain the angst of life in the States. It is a strange insistence to remain in the incompleteness of an existence, but one that is very American!

The answer to this riddle is in the weave of its design.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
August 15, 2018

Old woman and her cats.

"[This] Old woman in a short blue dress and an nasty feel to her style of expression is something of a force of reckoning to stand in front of by what is missed. In this absence is the feel and drive of her need for sex..." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/13/18 

the pussy of Lindsay should be valued, not by its moisture or feel, but by its inherent sacredness. The problem is in the word sacred and how in American psychology removing crudeness from American perception is unheard of by our social norms. Women in European/American  history are not more than 50 years into being respected by white men! That group of men are important for validation because their ideologies are centered around taking and killing! One cannot say it enough. "White men hold women in low standing, not as their equal." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/13/18 

Is There This in Life: our Answers?

Naked Black woman. Deep beauty, overwhelming powers. This is a book cover for Chika Unigwe's book titled, "On Black Sister's Street"

"Is this lust? No, this is power, the power of beginnings. Every Black man needs to develop himself, to ready himself for the 'one'. That is just one story told here..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 6/10/17

Is This Lust? 

https://www.instagram.com/isthislust/ 

body of Iskra Lawrence by photographer, Heather Hazzan is a white woman.

photographer, Doug Ochoa took this photo of Abby Parece. There is a lot of trust between the two!

I don't know what inspired William T. Stoddard to write this after seeing the photographic work of Doug Ochoa, but it deserved a listen:

"Criticism often produced a feeling of isolation, a feeling of you and me, separated by a great divide. We learned many defense mechanisms at an early age, thinking that a good defense would be the best protection from further reproach.

We have continued this approach as adults. Whether it’s a confrontation with a stranger on the street or an argument with our partner in the bedroom, we believe that we need good excuses to explain ourselves and good logic to defend ourselves. We behave almost as though we were professional negotiators, our own little lawyers." [May 24, 2017]

the Unknown is What We Don't Acknowledge.

Hello by Pixoeil Normandy.

Introspection evolves around stillness the way stillness requires attentiveness to surface within a person learning to learn from themselves about the worlds within them. It isn't a revolutionary process; it is transformative within the quiet of Being.

"Who am I alive?" is a question to ask in these moments of knowing. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/29/18 

Introspective Giorgia by Nino Sanfilippo.

"Beautiful women, who command are more easily misunderstood as being powerful because drawing attention to themselves by the force of their essence can be disguised as vanity, or self-absorption by any number of men, unable to see beyond need, or lust. It is distracting the illusion of Beauty, but enforced as a presence in the Medicine teachings; it becomes a tool, a shield, and a weapon!..." 

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

5/9/18 

Snezhana Schneeflockchen.by Jim Brady 

"What is wrong with being feminine is in the beliefs of men." 

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

the Solid within...

"When one is void of critical thinking, they will accept lies and fall into the trap of accepting the status quo which will eventually cause them to be defined and confined by their oppressors..." Dr. Sinclair Grey III 

woman swimming with a Humpback whale in her dream.

Wonder meant to engage...

Cristina Tiurean Photography

Photographer Cristina Tiurean took this moment of Simona Spinella.

"The relationship between women and water is the birth of a child, the pregnancies we all evolve from and the element we carry and emerge from to breath air. It is quite the circular game to existence these touches to our knowing!..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/21/18

"Tiny woman. Elegantly does she wear the Ujena classic G-string! It is a gift being this confident in the sensuality of this stage in life. It commands attention to and from purpose!..." ~  Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories