Elders Talk: HIGH MATH

 Gen. 1:28 Be fruitful, multiply, dominion. Fruitful = mature ones character, creating mind/body unity centered on God. Individual sync with God.

Multiply = have children as a couple where the vertical love of God is rooted in the human family. To seek for man/woman love before maturing individual love of God first creates problems as the love of God can't flow freely within the couple, as the individual foundation for love is not established. - Adruma Victoria

African woman in black dress. 

"The notion that a man must first find himself before he finds his woman, or he'll damage whatever women he comes in contact with along the way is not an absolute. More than anything else this sentiment thinks of itself too highly. It is as if a man is a disease, and women crumble before his presence afflicted by his ineptitude. Is there any power within women? Is she indeed the weaker vessel without fortitude of her own? 

The complexity of development and revelation can lead thought and reflection on and on and on until patterns space themselves out into various modification of the formulas we are familiar with. When that happens we have become more than we thought and the exchanges between a woman and man can lead them down and up paths of discovery until both have balanced themselves together, or separately. 

I dig the way Adruma breaks down Genesis 1:28. His assessment moves consciousness from the crude into the thin intangible delicate spheres of awareness." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.23.14

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Octavia 

"As men we are initiating subjects of equal value with women who are in object position. The reality we know is out of sync with the creation ideal in the heart of The Creator who created man and woman, as the subject/object representatives of His own inner subject/object dynamic. This was with the intention to achieve true and glorious subject/object relationship between man and woman such that The Creator is enraptured in our human stimulation, covering human love with God's love where everyone is honored, valued and equal partners in love. The ideals of the engagement of love have been trampled and all experience violation and betrayal. That would not be our collective experience had humanity followed the original flow of true love outlined above." - Adruma Victoria 5.23.14

BLACKS THOUGHT HIGH OF THEMSELVES

A Black woman, Neisseria Gunn Arrears, posted a sentiment about a segment of Black thought. When first I read this I had an initial response. I said, "It is common, but it is hard on the ears hearing women using gruff language, but the point was well made. Neisseria Gunn Arrears grinds down into the core of a dysfunctional dream, and a hope held for centuries by African slaves."

Neisseria Gunn Arrears‎

Later reading the comments from mostly younger Black people I hit upon the missing in their thinking. One of the things younger people don't seem to understand, or appreciate in depth is why Black Americans reminded themselves of the eras of African civilizations. There is a deep emotional history that incredibly has fallen outside of their grasp. In this forum it is pointless to talk about it because the technologies that bring that information out is as present now as it was 40 and 80 years ago, and despite that the depth of this aspect of the Black experience evades their embrace.

Blacks had to think high of themselves even though there are holes in the probability of being a King or a Queen. Sadly, there are today more 'queens' in the Black community that don't and cannot inspire the deep pride a real Queen of a people would.  There should be more intellectual and spiritual recoil against the queens of our communities passing themselves off as authentic. Their inconsistencies are apparent and damaging, and worse they are allowed to pass themselves off as men.

I know the element of royalty, and the presence of a King's spirit and a Queen's spirit is behind the declarations of being a King and a Queen. It has been important to self-esteem. But, if that is no longer important to Black people of this generation what do you have that is better to offer and to be? What will you bring to the development and advancement of your people? Diatribes and sharp analysis of your preceding generations are important to the task of carrying on legacies but so is the work, and the unlearning so necessary to the struggle.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.22.14

DICK GREGORY



flag of Black Americans, Red for the blood shed, Black for the People, Green for the land the whites stole from the Africans.

Dick Gregory, A Real Inspiration and True Warrior



Richard Claxton 'Dick' Gregory is an inspiring Black American comedian and civil rights activist whose social satire changed the way white Americans perceived Black American comedians since he first performed in public. His participation in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's is well-documented, as are his efforts on behalf of American Indians, for world peace and against hunger.

"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre." --Dick Gregory

Legendary Activist Dick Gregory was on the frontline in the sixties during the Civil Rights Era; today he continues to be a "drum major for justice and equality."

Gregory was arrested for civil disobedience several times. As a part of his activism, he went on several hunger strikes to publicize the world hunger problem, to draw attention to the nation's drug abuse epidemic, and to emphasize the plight of the American Indians.

After a childhood of poverty in St. Louis, Gregory attended college on a track scholarship and later served two years in the army. In the middle 1950s he concentrated on finding work as a comedian, always having had, as he says, "a good rap."

As he became better established as a comedian, Gregory put his convictions into practice by devoting much of his time to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

On behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Congress on Racial Equality, and other prominent civil rights organizations, Gregory made appearances at demonstrations, marches, and rallies throughout the country.

Dick Gregory and his activism spurred him to run for mayor of Chicago in 1966 and for president in 1968 which garnered substantial media attention.

Many American Indians retaliated with their own adaptation of 1960s civil disobedience -- fish-ins -- to protest interference with treaty rights. The war also continued in the media as a parade of the famous came to support the American Indian cause: Marlon Brando was arrested in 1964 while "helping some Indian friends fish" on the Puyallup River, Gregory was jailed for joining the American Indians in illegal fishing.





Dick Gregory

In the early 1970s Gregory abandoned comedy to focus on his political interests, which widened from race relations to include such issues as violence, world hunger, capital punishment, drug abuse and poor health care.

Gregory ran for President of the United States in 1968 as a write-in candidate of the Freedom and Peace Party, which had broken off from the Peace and Freedom Party.

Gregory became an outspoken critic of the Warren Commission findings that President JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

On March 6, 1975, Gregory and assassination researcher Robert Groden appeared on Geraldo Rivera's late night ABC talk show Goodnight America. An important historical event happened that night when the famous Zapruder film of JFK's assassination was shown to the public on TV for the first time in history.

The public's response and outrage to that showing led to the forming of the Hart-Schweiker investigation, which contributed to the Church Committee Investigation on Intelligence Activities by the United States, which resulted in the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation.

Gregory was an outspoken feminist, and in 1978 he joined the National ERA March for Ratification and Extension, a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the United States Capitol of over 100,000 on Women's Equality Day (August 26), 1978 to demonstrate for a ratification deadline extension for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, and for the ratification of the ERA.

The Women's Movement was largely successful in securing gender equality in the laws and society.





Frederick Douglass

Gregory and Mark Lane conducted landmark research into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which helped move the U.S. House Assassinations Committee to investigate the murder, along with that of John F. Kennedy.

Mark Lane was author of conspiracy theory books such as Rush to Judgment. The pair wrote the MLK conspiracy book Code Name Zorro, which postulated that convicted assassin James Earl Ray did not act alone.

Gregory was an outspoken activist during the US Embassy Hostage Crisis in Iran. In 1980 he traveled to Tehran to attempt to negotiate the hostages' release and engaged in a public hunger strike there, weighing less than 100 pounds (45 kg) when he returned to the United States.

In 1998 Gregory spoke at the celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with President Bill Clinton in attendance. Not long after, the President told Gregory’s long-time friend and P.R. Consultant, Steve Jaffe, “I love Dick Gregory; he is one of the funniest people on the planet.”

They spoke of how Gregory had made a comment on Dr. King’s birthday that broke everyone into laughter, when he noted that the President made Speaker Newt Gingrich ride “in the back of the plane,” on an Air Force One trip overseas.




Huey P. Newton (l.) said, I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Since the late 1980's, Gregory has been a figure in the health food industry by advocating for a raw fruit and vegetable diet.

At a Civil Rights rally marking the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Gregory criticized the United States, calling it "the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet. As we talk now, America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs".

In response to published allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had supplied cocaine to predominantly Black American areas in Los Angeles, thus spurring the crack epidemic, Gregory protested at CIA headquarters and was arrested.

Gregory announced a hunger strike on September 10, 2010, saying in a commentary published by the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal that he doubted the official U.S. report about the attacks on September 11, 2001.

"One thing I know is that the official government story of those events, as well as what took place that day at the Pentagon, is just that, a story. This story is not the truth, but far from it. I was born on October 12, 1932. I am announcing today that I will be consuming only liquids beginning Sunday until my eightieth birthday in 2012 and until the real truth of what truly happened on that day emerges and is publicly known."

"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that." --Dick Gregory

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Well??

"At the end of a lifetime, what is worth remembering? What, if anything, will put a smile on your face? Even now, what causes you to have a reason to rejoice? There is no replacement for people who light up this world with happiness. The question is, at the end of the day what thoughts are worth holding in your Holy Mind?" - Shenita Johnson 2.19.14 




February 18 , 2014

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
 

 

I AM NOT A PORN STAR

Jennifer Nguyen


Any MSGS about SEX, ESCORT and NAKED PICTURES will be Ignored. I don't do escort and I am not a porn star.

I specialize in glamour modeling and that includes bikini, lingerie and all the sexy goodies but it doesn't mean i will do anything for money. I will not send any naked pictures out even if you pay me and I will not accept any escort and porn gigs as well. I'm not trying to be rude but it does it make hard for me to see the genuine and sweet msgs that people spend their time to write me when its all jammed with msgs about sex and other things. I hope you understand and respect what i am asking. thank you! ♥




Jennifer Nguyen
September 3, 2013



“If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted there is practically nothing she can't do. Don't be fooled by our sexy outfits, they're just uniforms”

 

- Jennifer Nguyen



Jennifer Nguyen on May 20, 2013

 

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Star People

Gabriel W. Alazam VII

Nov. 5, 2013

The Affects of Belief 2

Reality star - Tiffany Pollard posing. For those who don't recognize her name she is known as New York.

So many relationships, and marriages based on conflict pretend they aren't, deny they are, and manifest it daily the way they relate to, and raise their children, if they have any. It spills into their work, business, play, the way they care for their aging parents, and how they view God. How they think of themselves suffers from contradictions easily eradicated by self-examination, and intent. But, self-analysis frightens the paradigm. It also frightens the relationship with conflict, and so the patterns continue to be treated as normal, or fall under the cliches: 


"That's how we do!" 
"I love my Boo. We gotta fight to stay together!" and so forth and so on ya' dig? - Gregory E. Woods 10.13.13

The famous shooter Annie Oakley is reputed to have said, "I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either." She is just like the main character in the movie, Colombiana. Fear and love and the need for and the need to love plays against each other within her reasoning and her emotions. Many live this way. It is how they conduct their emotions to respond in relationships: imbalanced between their need to love, incapacity to intelligently love, and their conquering fears. It is a Trick Bag hard to get out of with Denial at the front door keeping it safe from scrutiny. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.13.13

The Great I AM

Photography by Omer H. Paracha

This art was inspired by cover of Kanye West's new album, "Yeesus"

This is a powerful Medicine Wheel teaching, and it is an extreme assertion to the mind of many a fundamentalist of Islamic and Christian leanings, and would lead them to harsh judgement, and condemnation of the artist and his conceptual pull towards 'divinity from within'. One person may be a Seeker who discovered with delight the indwelling power of Creation and the Creator exists not as an intellectual abstraction, or a distant authority but as a living entity within and throughout the essence of Life. These people immediately grasp the sanctity of Knowing, and their presence upon the Earth, our Mother transforms darker properties of coarse elements such as judgement into forms of light. That is how enlightenment works.

I guess it is save to say, "Beauty and Art are in the eye of the beholder, as well as the Sacred is within the body of Belief."

The deep probes into the psyche have traditionally been the way of the Shaman, the Healer who took care of the People in smaller social structures (sedentary tribes, towns, nomadic tribes). But, the time of the one-on-one tutelage to pass down spiritual and sacred knowledge to an apprentice has been forced to become an old model. The population has exceeded any projected number. Only the dreams of Seers, long dead saw these vast numbers of people upon the planet. Moses saw it, but few solutions to the complexity of living were revealed, and the art and responsibility of taking care of the soul, and the collective of souls (community) was left to the design of each era's spiritual people. This form of survival challenged the emotions and the tactics, and responsibilities of traditional healers, and Shaman forcing a creativity upon the lot of them to 'see' into the futures of their times.

My Grandfather-Teacher, Ojuku, was slow and meticulous. Our one-on-ones held us tight together for decades. I felt the shifts in my being within the context of our very private and intimate settings. The secrecy was a style of learning. It was linked to the dangers he faced first accepting and then learning his craft alone for many years. I asked him once to write a book.

He said, "No. You will write my book."

Interesting aside: Old Man was right. I would write his story in my living and service. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.29.13

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August 28, 2013

In An Ideal World



Cynthia Addai-Robinson

 

Patience in Marriage

Alison Oh Plus Model

Marilyn Monroe
May 14, 2013

"One of the determinate factors of who is a good man, husband is how he develops an insight into patience he didn't have before, studies the questions raised by his wife's actions, and shares how he learned how to wait for his wife, and how he became patient with her over time. A crucial thing to grasp is how she redefines what patience is according to her concept of time and appropriateness. 


I watched my father develop this. It took years. The management of frustration is a factor, but it is a necessary art to at least learn her perception. No, it is a skill also, and it must be mastered eventually. Yes, it is a skill, and a compromise. Every young man needs to understand the subtlest things about relationships, and marriage. The best place to learn it is from wise older cats who know this stuff, and learned it the hard way!"

"The hard way?"

You had to ask that. There is no easy way to learn it." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.8.13

SHE SAID 'I AM'

The Old Crones Corner
March 14, 2013

"as we age we change, as does our perceptions."

Being Single-Minded, white women present a problem!

15 hrs 

PROGRESSIVE BLACK THINKERS

21 hrs 

Quite an image of the white woman, whose famous face symbolizes the white feminist movement of the 1960's '70's & '80's, clenching her fist alongside a proud dark skinned woman with a tight afro herself raising her fist in the Black Power salute. But the poster crosses out the word Black and replaces it with women over the word power. Women Power. 

What is women's power in a patriarchy? What is Black Power in a white society? Is the suggestion a comfortable one replacing, or diminishing the role and need for Black empowerment? If white people, as a whole, cannot stop being invaders and warmongers how can white women and Black women co-exist in a movement centered around power? What does women power mean between two women's groups hostile and envious of each other? 

Women power? What energies will such a movement start with? Will it evolve into the higher planes of the Sacred Feminine, or wrestle with the old demi-gods who have consistently been the bane of women's existence in the Western world? 

Starting from the Western perspective and worldview how will women clinging to their traditions in other cultures in the United States and abroad strategically place themselves in this movement that by its inception in the States is polarized between Black and White women? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.16.14

21 hrs 

Monique Thompson

37 mins 

MONEY IN MOTION 2

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Wicked Mean Bikes

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Seven Triggers

The Brazilian television personality, Laura Soares, said according to Sally Hogshead there are seven triggers of fascination, and we are always led by two.

 What are you led by? 

"There are many questions living gives to us. What do we do with ourselves? Am I where I need to be? Who am I alive? Where is the life journey taking me? What am I giving into? Was that wise? Is there more to me, if so what? All kinds of things come at us." 

Yesterevening, I met a smartly and distinctly dressed Black man sporting a black beret, and a vintage ensemble of his own making, and elegant manners. He was poise almost in a suggestive feminine manner, but making no expression of sexual preference, only a sense of knowing who he was and where he stood in life. I excused myself from the conversation I was in in the church basement, and approached him, greeting him in French with a question. He looked at me coolly, with confidence and tried to respond in kind. I made a brief appraisal of his wardrobe to him that he confirmed with a nod of his head, and our conversation fell into one about the arts, and performance and purpose. 

His name was Frank. He was at the church to sing and rap in a performance in the sanctuary upstairs. He was interested in the children running around in the basement I was looking after. The young man had an interesting background in his young life that included two years of public education teaching performing arts under the strict cold guidelines of the Washington DC public school system that are not compatible with a child's creativity, and their natural ways of learning and processing stimuli. It was an awful struggle he faced with his best efforts, but the harshness of the system shortened his desire to teach in that arena.

The most interesting thing about Frank was his wisdom about education. Frank said, "I went through school with purpose. I know who I am. I was in school only to enhance what I had, and to sharpen it." He went on to explain the average student's problem in school was going through school not knowing their purpose. It explained the switching of majors in college, the irresponsible partying and so on. 

His plan in school was to sharpen his skills, graduate and immediately do what he was doing at the church. 

Why was he born? To develop an art for families to better raise and develop their children through sound, movement and the spoken word. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.20.14

a Colombian woman sitting in the dentist's office.
February 13 , 2014

   

WHAT IS WRONG FIX IT!

See? 

Deep Things to Think About!

"Culture doesn't make the human ...human makes the culture and this my friends is its fatal attraction. It is a concept ... a holographic representation of an individual and collective possibility which may or may not be shared even by those claiming a paternity to the ideal. It is dangerous in the sense, that it offers to co-create something which it cannot deliver upon ...it cannot guarantee to be unchanging and static ...everything in this realm of co-existence (ie. the physical or manifesting world) necessarily changes). Even ...culture and what it is claiming to represent over space and time. Change is a fact of being alive. You can't fight this power. You may only adapt into it's sacred flow towards Source energy." -  Ngaronoa Mereana Taki 5.25.14

June 29, 2014 

YES, YOU CAN!

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending!" - Sporah, the popular Tanzanian talk show host The Sporah Show,1.29.14 

July 27, 2013 

OH, You Don't Remember or Didn't Know?

American's story 

5 Things to know

Sankofa Infinity 

May 13 , 2014

Sexy After 40

November 6, 2012 

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