IN Between

Sun lit the room.

"I love the story of light and shadow. The way it is a nuance and an announcement is as intriguing as changing light, falling darkness and the space in-between. Light and shadow shift perception as wine shifts mood and sensation, and tobacco lifts pain, mood and spirit in the old ways of my Ancestors in ceremony. This play is where Spirits create mystique, compel questions to arise from the stillness..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/09/18

Sunlight from the window upon Nella taken by Kenneth Lysgaard‎.2018.

In Silence, Think.

Deep introspection captured by Aleksandrs Tihonovs 

with a Fuji X-T2, 60mm 2.4, in natural light.

Photograph of She by Kelvin Grapher Photography. 

"Quiet dwells within her." 

Old Wisdom.

Dark and forbidden by John Santerineross

Self Betrayal by Gerbie Pabilonia 

posed by Sahara Isidro Perez.

The chambers of thought from within climb over and above doubt in one's self only by choice. It is always a choice. Choice makes its way into a path we follow, or create. It is magic the way this works for the good, but the tragedies otherwise coming from bad choices unleash our shadows into the awareness of others. Shadows and light. They are calling us to ourselves. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/12/18

shadow of a woman.

CONNECTING INTANGIBLES for children



a beautiful woman's portrait of light.

Sydney Gurewitz Clemens said, "Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else."

Art also teaches children to merge; a concept essential to group dynamics that require listening, compromise, and understanding. The inability to merge adversely affects the way people drive. They are less inclind to understand their relationship to other things that seem inonocuous, but aren't. The inability to merge is a matter of life and death. Art teaches this art effortlessly. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/26/16




A biker chick's gentle spirit.

Seen with Clarity.

Nubian woman.

"In this moment, this light, dressed in white there is a way of expressing something imaginable." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/4/17

DISCOVERY

"A beautiful woman easily wearing khaki skinny pants accentuated by a khaki turtle neck with a trench coat looped over her clasped hands speaks to the fall season. But, what is intriguing about women are the assumptions they embody. In each grouping by race are assumptions that support the feeling of being strong. In each soul is a necessity. How it is discovered makes way for long discussions about being essential in life."  - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories [June 12, 2017]

Abby Parece, Playboy model in the sunshine of February 27, 2017.

Abby Parece, Playboy model in the sunshine of February 2017!

High intelligence, an aphrodisiac, calms and stirs simultaneously in women the way a gathering of storm clouds doesn't become a threat until thunder roars! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9/22/17

IN the Depths WE Know.

I am therefore we are.

Embracing one's self becomes an art after the arduous task of arising from the lowest esteem childhood should not have given an individual. The country we live in boasts of its potential to take life with its many weapons and tactics of war with no simplification. There is war, and rumors of more war behind the stamina a warmonger has in a competition with lust a whoremonger has crawling within his or her body. The lack of beauty in a desire is the loss of soul given up, not for adoption, but abandoned by basic misunderstanding of what is basic to life: how to love, and why we love.

God may have made us, but we choose to believe in whatever myth comforts our angst the further we stray from the fundamental elements of truth, and Creation, as was made by what is beyond who we can possibly associate as God. It is our belief in God that stifles us. It is discovering the balance within the Goddess that comes with the Goddess that releases us from the pendulum of trading places with the knowledge of Ma'at's feather, not to judge, but receive the touch of what whispers to us constantly, "I am Life! I am Life! Mother without Father is imbalance leaving a craving for that balance and a return to what works for the I AM."

It is in us all.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 12, 2017

Lemuel, my first born son, kissing Mommy in her last months before her death.

Lines in Circles: Sacred Math

Lines of attraction do not taper off into the oblivion of any kind of deconstruction. Lines evolve over the expanse of substance in the hope of being squares, rectangles, triangles, off-angled alignments leading towards designs. It is the substance of purpose that creates art from lines and circles.

Out of line are circles arching, aligning, making do with being concentric in nature or being spontaneously eloped with eclectic treatment of mysterious things lines can separate us from in the fast movement of paces through our dichotomy, our perceptions, our understandings and our way of being present or absent from the teachings of the circle. Without the sacredness of line and circle the cross section of line into graphs for one mind to understand another mind will miss the flow of circles meandering effortless through and connecting to the internal concepts willing to be part of traditions, sacred awakenings, and the riddles of existence.

All this is learned in silences. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories nov. 02, 2016 

Les Nus de Lumière et d'Ombre de Dani Olivier

Feel this . . .

Reflecting in the morning with roses is its own prayer.

Yesterday

Reflecting in the light of morning is its own prayer set in motion by touch, by color, by the presence of roses. Roses have their own power stories. Creation gave each its own place and each plant its own story to begin. It is a mystery being needed by who created you, but creation as its own mystery left us within our mysteries to explore. How we do it is a mystery our parents made into prayers for us to become, to be. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.18.16

Between Light & Dark of Soul



Cat-like woman aligned with forces of darkness may appear from a light. Women aligned within themselves as Sacred women may seem darker, more mysterious to a predator because they are confused about the definitions of light & darkness within their souls. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/30/16

 

There is Gray, and it is Light.

"The fall of light is not a descent it is an arousal of substances that make up the composition of dark creating colors and light." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Jan. 4, 2017

Rosa Brighid by Silverlight. Shadow Lace. 2016.

Street artist in Berlin, we_wilddrawing

Daïdo Moriyama's untitled piece from the series, 'Kyoku Erotica', 2007.

Katrina Kenison by Dulce Ruby

HAPPY????

"There is always a reason to be happy?"

I don't agree. 

If you search for it you can find something to be grateful for that in better times would bring joy. But, happy is not necessary in the dark of struggle. It is seeing a way out that small pin points of light, in an otherwise dreary situation, creates the tension that tells the body and soul, "I will survive this..." 

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.23.14 

The Letters of Gratitude
 

 

These stories awaken!

Soft light in an old kitchen would begin a review of what elements are in place not to disturb the tranquility of space between what is serene and beautiful to behold and what is subject to the sense of being present in a moment filled with etheric qualities. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Nov. 22, 2016

Jews have always found ways to survive, blend and maintain their identity. Jewish identity is based upon something deeper than slavery, wealth, and survival. Black Americans need to understand these people more so now with Trump as President.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Nov. 22, 2016

Water touches the head, the heart and the body of knowledge the element comes from.

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories (Nov. 22, 2016) photo of Tawny Jordan.

The standard of defense against dangerous attractions is based upon discipline, and training prior to encounter. Whatever is practiced during rehearsal is done onstage. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Nov. 22, 2016

PRACTICE 27: initiation link

mysterious aspect of a Thai prostitute - Mai

Playboy fans



Sheridyn Fisher of Playboy Australia & New Zealand. Dec. 10, 2013 

"The angelic quality of this image of Sheridyn Fisher of Playboy Australia & New Zealand makes a case for the creative process of sight becoming poetry, poetry music and music the right feel to the vibrations emanating from so precious a vital spirit. How can a woman be special outside of your acquaintance? The end of that question searches the formula of one's manhood, and evaluates the storm or the story of his masculinity. 


Visions come to a man not in the way it comes to an angelic being. If we were to study angelic beings we would not be so ready to assign the title and energies of such a creature upon the body and essence of womanhood. Womanhood is a different calibre of holiness. From elements angelic beings visit is the only common ground between the two. Each, the woman and the angelic beings, come to teach, nurture and protect men, masculinity and manhood and it is always through initiatory experiences this comes to light!" 

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.18.13  

Ms. Denial 002

"Some things come true because of the perception we bring to bear upon intent, want and desire. Other things are merely dreams, slips of the tongue and vague innuendos. When finally a dream does come true the brush of fresh air upon the senses awakens the clarity of creation and creativity takes on more potency and we can become confident in our ability to make things happen by voice and action." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.18.13













Angie Vu Ha resting in the shadow.
October 31, 2013 

SECOND PRACTICE

"Remember this while you meditate, do not haste. Take your time and let your light of enlightenment come to you in your own time. Do not haste and never force. Everything you need will come to you when you are ready. The development of force shall never be used." - Irene Martha 11.24.13

What cycle?

One comfortable day after noon on the 30th day of August in 2012, a moment in time was frozen, not by a camera, but by Tülay Bayrak's presence and the form, the shape of her body's understanding of it's self. I wish I could say I'd seen the image without the camera's memory of her. But, however viewed it is an illustration of an art form young men need to grasp from the inside of their beings at levels of comprehension higher than the preceding generations of accomplished men of Power. They can't, and neither can anyone else not take the cyclical shift we are in and have been in in ever widening ways seriously!

In the transfer of touch things are happening outside of the limited spectrum of logic. Cycles overlap. They destroy and build themselves anew. Our bodies house awareness. In the center of our awareness we can be aware that the center of centrifugal, and centripetal  forces are sharing a center point of existence we can easily call 'aware intelligence. Its logic is its own without familiar guidelines a person can be comfortable with if, indeed said person is asleep out of fear. Ideally, the hope of many were instantaneous changes would seize the earth and its inhabitants on the proposed date of prophecies because those people lived outside of themselves. They pretend their awareness does not live in their bodies because they believe their bodies are temporal, and do not deserve a healthy relationship with their spirits.

This division is definitive of religion; itself a body of awareness. Held captive awareness becomes dangerous, and dogma can become oppressive, stagnant, and dark prophesies rooted in fear will begin to dance in concert with domination and division. That dance asks how much of the prophecies of the Mayan, John and others were missed and misinterpreted out of fear, and out of body experiences? This dance poses the new questions for the new cycle.

How long will the next cycle last is immaterial. Only the present is important. The three directions of awareness are in the one. It is easy mathematics  The composition of the present is three. It is in the past. It is the present and the future in the one, and the succeeding moments. Not understood this equation is in the heavens and upon the Earth, our Mother. What is seen in the heavens has happened. In the present we stand, and with the capacity of the mind can plan, dream or glimpse the future. These three are one.

- Gregory E. Woods

12.24.12

Parenting LIGHT

Parenting the Light of the World is erroneously thought to be the exclusive role of Mary, his mother. That assumption stopped creative processes the world over as women in every country birthed light into the world. It is a special privilege raising light. Believing there was only one light limits that light and intimidates the light out of lives that could do better than Jesus' life. It was his fervent wish that we do better and more than he and live life more abundantly. Belief, since he expressed that wish, suppressed creative people's dreams. In other words mothers and fathers suffocated the possibility and the notion of another child becoming a Messiah simultaneously killing the unction within many spirits to be God-like and create with the power Jesus said we had access to. To make it plainer, the Church didn't believe a cotton pickin' thing Jesus said that required more than rudimentary belief in authority, and blind obedience to simple rules.


In a very real sense belief became a 'mother fucker'. I say that with heaviness and deep sensitivity to the negative power and connotation of the word. Motherfucker is one of the two most despised words in the English language to me, but in this instance it is a logical fit into understanding the bad programming we live with as a society! The word speaks to a horrible thought process, and tells the long story of an awful assimilation into mediocrity twenty centuries of people have submitted themselves to as a superior force outside of nature because they couldn't and didn't believe and understand what Jesus said and meant as a legacy for the following generations!  

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11.23.14

Jesus say no . . . 

... it (the cartoon)brings to a point of consideration the unique challenges of raising a gifted child. How do you raise one gifted child to be a child amongst other children without spoiling or killing their spirit? - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11.23.14