Walking Story

Bethenny Frankel on the set of Extra, in Hollywood! 

Damn, she is fine and contradictory in nature and manner!!!

Bethenny Frankel's walk is more of power in a man's world, and less a woman respectful of the blending her essence is capable of deepening a union between her and a man... Millions of American women give into this paradigm believing in its advantages, while questioning why they don't have basic things: a husband, a peaceful balance within, and answers that begin with why they have a place in Creation to restore balance!... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9/23/18 

no heavy stuff, just easy light stuff...

Hi readers,

Well this week has been slightly crazy, I never seemed to stop moving but I did take Sunday off to hang all of my art in my apartment in Dublin. I am in the middle of doing it all up so once it’s done I’ll share some pictures with you guys. I’ve been quite busy with work this week, I had a few days filming and when my week is like that I feel like I’m always trying to catch up with all of my blog work and writing but I managed to get everything done. . . [more] 

Vogue Williams graceful as ever getting into a car in London at Sunday Times Style magazine in December 2015. Grace is as important as elegance in the definition of femininity! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

FOUR NICOLES

Nicole Scherzinger getting into a car at New York Fashion Week in 2016.

Nicole Peters brings to the forefront the wonder 

and glory of natural breasts and tan less body. But, as a whore; Is there something missed?

Nicole Kidman's delicate beauty of form, face and strength of character make her a lady. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

Nicole Murphy walking through a nail shop!

... and Time paused.

Elegant in this black plunge cross strap suedette dress and heels!

A Look Back

Dyan Cannon on phone in the '60's

Sophia Loren in a breeze.

Helen Mirren, actress "Woman In Gold" 

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Beautiful and stunningly beautiful white women from days gone by formed and support the opinions about what was the standard for this and the last century.

Look at this gallery. It is more of a tribute. Women like Kim Novak and Sophia Loren featured in this gallery of poses, who set standards today's woman glances at in their mirrors for glimpses. Yes, this is a tribute to the influence of white women in our sensibilities. This gallery of comparative photographs skips through the mid-twentieth century with darlings like Caroline de Maigret and Lucille Baugh! Audrey Hepburn set the standard of elegant poise and the long forgotten Isabel Jewell!

If you look close and beneath the assumptions they are all white women, whose influence framed the network of thought and esteem Black women from then until now hold as mirrors. In the strive for freedom Black American's struggle for identity begins with images framing their perception of themselves.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
October 14, 2017

pretty legs of Ginger Rogers.

Anna Q. Nillson in 1920. 

Mae Busch's exquisite beauty in 1922. 

Hedy Lamar in the style of the 1940's.

Mature Men listen.

"Delicate beauty of this older woman is poetic in its slow way of being elegant, her sense of simple fashion and the enduring quality of thinking about things..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/20/18

Thoughtful. "Having many years behind you doesn't mean your best years aren't in front of you'" someone projected into the common venue of speculation about aging. 

Delicate dedication to devotion.

Kiss in kind, kindly kissed, the touch of an essence upon the lips speak to the soul! It is the poetry of making out the illusion of come hither confusing bad intent. Essence is her own story. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/12/18 

Thick Black women like she are hidden from true sight by what they well up within men who want them. This allure blocks need giving attention to what can be given or taken, not reciprocated. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 8/19/18 

Cherish this feel.

Lady pretty wearing an Ava Lace short wedding dress.

Elegant Cate Blanchett photographed by Coco Perez

Louise in the spotlight.

Louise Glover on the red carpet!

Louise Griffiths by Tim Whitby during the Aura of Asia

arrivals in splendor in the most breathless of ways!!

The ANK!

Nicole Murphy wearing an ANK!

The principles within the ANK are continuous, unconcerned with anyone's belief systems. Magic works the way the Tao operates indifferent to what matters to believers. It is a warrior's way, if you understand. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/12/17
 

Other America. 3

2 Negro sisters in the 1950's. picture donated by the Earl McCann Collection.

copyright Waheed Photo Archive !!!!

4 Black folks in Harlem, 1970's, fly as shit!

Elegance as defined.

hats still have relevance.

“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.” ― C. JoyBell C. 

Elegance of a woman is the stillness of her elegance, the coolness of her temperament and the way she moves easily within... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/22/17

Sophia Loren on the set of 'Judith' in 1965 wearing her trademark accessories,

dark shades, and a wide brimmed sun hat!!!!

“It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!”   ― C. JoyBell C.

Elegant Black Lady defined and ready for church at best,

taking on the world of fashion as if it were a walk!

“The black color is much deeper than to be overwhelmed by grief… Black hides everything within itself in the argument of elegance.” ― Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men

"Older Black women, as she does, question futility with a look, rebukes trifleness with a look, and in her eyes tells a story a 'man' needs to hear." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

5 Black American Women his camera sees.

5 women by Roland Dawson.

5 women by Roland Dawson. Capree Washington, Brittney Blair, Latoya Taylor and Anna Griffin. the last one is unnamed with long hair.

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5 women by Roland Dawson. Anna Griffin, Brittney Blair, Capree Washington, and Latoya Taylor and the 5th woman with the casual ease within her self. 2016.

it seems effortless...

Esperanza Gómez, seducción pura.

elegant in red, elegant Esperanza Gómez. 

barefoot in a park.

the Flow of Line.

Angelina Jolie flows into the presence of others. . .

black elegant gown.

Anya Ivy

beautiful legs of Emma Willis

Poetry.

Rosa Brighid shooting for her website, OfficalRosa.com January 2017.

Poetry has her way of appearing. She as a form of art knows a thing or two about being elusive, vague and meaningful with but a few words, or cumbersome with many things to say. Poetry as an art form creates around the style of expression one can see, one can read, one can perceive, and one can know in one's soul by her presence, her beauty and the way she stands in time.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Jan. 16, 2017

Rosa Brighid. A self-portrait of appreciation after session work with Creative Instincts Photography. 2017.

FROM A DISTANCE: Thoughts from Women

DAMN !!!!

Delicate Asian woman's beauty simply expressed in this flattering cut out Khaki dress against the eyes, the position of the hands. Her delicateness is a soft touch. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.13.17

"Soft delicate women can recondition a man's harsh disposition for a time, but that is unnecessary work. Women should simply prepare for the mate." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Sophisticated Black woman in green off shoulder frill sleeves midi dress makes pause thought and speculation in ways white women cannot. It's something ain't it the way ladyship beckons the soul. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.13.17

IN HEELS

Elegance at a premium.

naked in heels. Paz de la Huerta photographed for Flaunt #117 by Warwick Saint.

Met Art - vulnerable she is.

Black model flowing down the street wearing a neon blouse and printed midi.