Perspective: FREEDOM Sought.

Motorcycle. Steed Babe circa. 2005 

model this bike for Steed Musclebike Motorcycle Co. 

has quite the drawing power!

"... Strength in the woman that has what draws men nigh unto her bosom is captivated by what is weak within the structure of men's illusions. The machines enhancing, or representative of male force add and create power to the image of the Western male. Strength and power are not from image, but structures based in the revolving and circulatory forces of Nature from Creation in the present..."

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/19/18 

"Allure and appeal intertwine on a nice ride similar to the way pleasantness, and appreciation fuel the imagination as an observer." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/20/18

The aloneness of space isn't a substitute for being quiet within. It initiates this state of being in silence. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/20/18 




Female Motorcycle Riders

Independence by Fusion Photo. 2015.

This photo, and the intelligent way it was crafted takes me back to American history 101:

"... Property and substance, in European history as we Indians and Africans learned, were separate, and ne'er were the two to merge into white women's concepts of self, or fuel their esteem. It was hundreds of years before simple declarations like: 'Property of NO ONE' were embedded into their daughters. The dangers are current. The fears earlier white women felt are current. They have gone nowhere. They hid, and now the push for liberation, and freedom of expression..." -Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/20/18 

ILLUSION of false face.

Raquel Welch is a profoundly beautiful woman.

God in Heaven, Raquel Welch is a beautiful woman! But, fixating her face into a permanent state with plastic surgery is unbecoming because it robbed her face of its years long story. Faces tell the story of a life and insights into the view of the world's challenges on a soul, as uniquely as truth tells stories. The insistence on lying to one's self is not magical. It creates a sad emotion and an emphasis on illusion, not the unfolding of life in a body lived for those younger to learn from. One of the blessings of old age is the unspoken powers acquired that youth needs to facilitate its own journeys towards the expansiveness of living, sickness, transformation, and the deaths needed to grow into the 'who' of their existence.  . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [12/18/18] 

Beneath This Art.

… Anastasia Lux as a dream is a dream. The challenge with dreams are the illusions we believe, or the reality we make of the dreams we have about the women we want to have. But, every want isn't an answer. They can turn into questions we deny exist. Anastasia Lux this way is discovering what men have had, but will any understand what was lost prior to this moment in her life? To get inside some women's bed isn't to get what one needs, but to get into what ails them... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/30/19

Sacred Art Work by Le Ah Tiamat titled, "Sky Qwake" 

[The] study of self is the study of soul. Diana Prince here is composed of those elements a man studies to see himself better. The appearance of what is reflected from within is its own unfolding of what is truth, or fantasy. . . 

 - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [3/30/19] 

She Don't Know, yet.

ELDER TALK

Anitah claims she is 4 years without a man after her husband, 3 years ago, cheated on her. Now, she is playing on that and looking to get laid by (in her words) by a boy or a man, who is honest and lovely...

There are a lot of women like this with a limited set of skills, who over compensate. No matter what their story is there are men who will play along to get laid. This is compromise without dignity, but with clarity all attentions are uncloaked. Without thought about the price of this belief system the consequences to the soul are harsh. Always.

Porn, and sexual misadventures are included in the sexual freedom American women have been enjoying for a few decades without the societal consequences of their predecessors into the 1960's, but the protections of law do not gauge the complexity of one's soul, or how it is before one's death examining the texture of the lives lived. Death simplifies everything.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
(March 28, 2019)

"I don't care to elaborate because as I age I cannot get over the unfolding of these things on a daily basis. They are in the present horrid ghosts we cannot rid ourselves." 

Contradictions over Time.

Kim Kardashian West is worth $175 million dollars in 2018. What she is really worth is in the realm of perception, high intelligence, and a knack for fitting into a hard world for women without the compromises ordinary women make to survive. It is a far cry, this reality for her, from the days of Europe's dark age, and from the Armenian massacre over a hundred years ago! For those two people is their reconciliation between the two cultures of her bloodlines, and marriage to a Black American man? This is a blood question only she can answer; we can only speculate, or judge her on this note.

What is it for us and the ancestry of our peoples we need to recognize and work with, and work through? Kim Kardashian West married an eccentric and gifted man whom she seems to understand and definitely loves. "How do we love?" is the more important question, and perhaps the best place to start a study of a person. But, that is not how people begin their assessments of each other, nor is it a place immaturity leaves a person!

Immaturity is a major factor in American culture. It is the financial support of reality stars, and it is foundational to President Trump's appeal, and is part of the spell he holds over his followers. For Mrs. West this works one way in the entertainment world; for the nation as a whole this fixation with immaturity is a facet of the political  and moral manipulation of America's sub-conscience. As a force, immaturity goes about its business with little fear of being corrected. It is a drug of the sort that does not hesitate to implode because it is forever trusting in its revival. Immaturity leads public perception directing inaction so skillfully millions of Americans have lost the reason it takes to be a major force in the complex world of global politics. These citizens rely on the cruelness of people like Trump who cannot fathom how and why the pieces that hold nations together needs a high level of education in many disciplines and deep respect for Life, in all its forms!

White people are at the center of this trauma in America. This is their creation we are conditioned to, their dichotomy entangled in our ancestral lines, and we of the darker hue are in this with a deeper responsibility. We are the carriers of what needs to be done to undo this mess. Our spiritual responsibilities have depth in the intuition of what eludes us: the truth, and those truths bath in the bloodletting of this nation's past and present.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
June 13, 2018

Kim Kardashian West wearing flip flops.

Dark Characters (2)

Morticia Addams from the TV series, The Addams Family in 1964.

In 1964, using a long coal-black wig, the brunette Carolyn Jones ( born Carolyn Sue Jones in Amarillo, Texas, on April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983 ) began playing Morticia Addams on the television series The Addams Family, a role which brought her success as a comedian and a Golden Globe Award nomination.
(WIKI)

Brooke Shields as Morticia Addams in the Broadway musical, June 28, 2011!

She replaced Bebe Neuwirth in that role.

Kim Novak as Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd in

'Bell, Book & Candle' a 1958 romantic comedy.

Kim Novak as Gillian "Gil" Holroyd in "Bell, Book & Candle" , a 1958 American romantic comedy Technicolor film directed by Richard Quine, based on the successful Broadway play by John Van Druten and adapted by Daniel Taradash. It stars Kim Novak as a witch who casts a spell on her neighbor played by James Stewart. Rounding out the supporting cast are Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold and Elsa Lanchester. The film is considered Stewart's last as a romantic lead. (Wiki)

Dark Characters

Maila Nurmi as the 1950's character Vampira she created.

Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008), known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was a Finnish-American actress and television personality who created the campy 1950s character Vampira.

The daughter of a Finnish immigrant, Nurmi was raised in Oregon and relocated to Los Angeles in 1940 with hopes to be an actress. After several minor film roles, she found success in the Vampira character, television's first horror host. Nurmi hosted her own series, The Vampira Show, from 1954-55 on KABC-TV.

After the show's cancellation, she appeared in the Ed Wood cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space. She is also billed as Vampira in the 1959 movie, The Beat Generation where she plays a beatnik poet,as well as in the crime film The Big Operator (1959). She was portrayed by Lisa Marie in Tim Burton's 1994 film Ed Wood.

In the early 1950s, Nurmi was close friends with James Dean, and they spent time together at Googie's coffee shop on the corner of Crescent Heights and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. She explained their friendship by saying, "We have the same neuroses." (Wiki)

(* Of course, her unusual figure was a key factor to her success, as Vampira claimed to be gifted with the following measurements: 38-17-36! Huh?) 

Eclectic Ladies

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, waited for me every fall, or so I thought when she came around every October.

Elvira

Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1951) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV wearing a revealing, black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Elvira's Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. Her wickedly vampish appearance is offset by her comical character, quirky and quick-witted personality, and Valley girl-type speech. (Wiki)

Abstract within Common Knowledge

It is strange the illusions we swear by believing them to be truths.

Image captured by William Ukoh, 

"If one stands still to know, to hear and listen within there are stories within us to comprehend, and maybe share. Piercing our veneer opens the roads to truths we might not see right now!" - Gregory E. Woods, September 29, 2016

LOOK at these!!!

tattooed face of the Ainu women in Japan were seen as a mark of maturity and repel evil spirits! 

Woman Alone by Daïdo Moriyama

Naufghty Nyomi by Holly Randall!

Photographer Juan Muñoz‎ took this woman's image with a Sony A900-85mm F2.2 ISO200 1/80+Flash.

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.

Tales of Tales.

The Burning Lotus, is Art.

the body of Charley Springer is worthy of coveting, admiring, studying and being involved with on the surface. Beneath this illusion is a fact: the touch of femininity is breath of knowing!
- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories [Jan. 10. 2018]  

FOCUS: four

Sophia Loren in her later years. Fine as well as sophisticated with a freer sense of being a Lady. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Shohreh Aghdashloo's deep compelling beauty.

Eartha Kitt spoke her negative views on the war in Vietnam at a White House luncheon, she was effectively blacklisted and didn't work in the States for fully a decade.

The thought that, nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful, is a wonderful compliment. But, there is perception. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; yes? Well, perception of concepts changes belief systems, as well as altering the way a man looks at a woman, and the way a man looks into a woman gathers different fragments of what is the whole, or can become whole! These musings are in themselves alternative looks into the illusion of sound, of movement, of being and the how of changing from within to see within! This magic is the wonder of being flesh and blood, spirit and intelligence. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/5/18

"Sophia Loren's breasts were always there in a way that drew the eye to them, but restrained the mouth from comment. Only a lady could do that and a lady could not, or would not explain it to a man." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Sophistication of Sophia Loren

The way sophistication was depicted by certain women was part of the mystique women carried in the 20thCentury. It is hard to fathom, this essence, in a climate of judgment fearful of collective contradictions around one product: tobacco. Tobacco, cotton, human trafficking were three streams of wealth at the core of the United States. Their place in history is a story of how the colonists took sacred things and corrupted them for their benefit. The least an American citizen can do is get off their high horses and explore their roots intelligently. There is a stream that flows into the rivers that feed the oceans. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/5/18

Smoking outdoors. Sophia Loren.