T E A R S

Deep in the American story is this story told by the white men who came to this land, Turtle Island, without their white women whose eyes were filled with terror. European women had never conceived of the concept of women being free, or the intellectual possibility of women's rights until they saw how the women living in the Red Nations upon the land white folks believed 'they' had discovered lived their lives! Today, those daughters, those white women's descendants are still with those terrified eyes they try to hide are unable to free themselves of their terror because deep and silent within the caves of Old Europe is the threat white men whisper in their ears.

They can take what they allowed to become law.  ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/28/19

Photographer Mercedes Castillo Sánchez. "Rebuke" — with Jose Perez Melendez and Nerea González Cazorla. (Nov. 28, 2017)

Photographer Mercedes Castillo Sánchez. 'Absolve' — with Jose Perez Melendez and Nerea González Cazorla. (Nov. 28, 2017)

Photographer Mercedes Castillo Sánchez. 'Mordant' — with Jose Perez Melendez and Nerea González Cazorla.. (Nov. 28, 2017)

Photographer Mercedes Castillo Sánchez. 'Confined' — with Nerea González Cazorla. (Nov. 28, 2017)

Rebuke — with 

Loss of Self, Loss of Father, Loss of Soul.

I don't understand the last part of the sentence: "... paid for with the currency of the heart." Perhaps because I keep thinking about my father's last months with this condition of the soul!

I was watching Daddy's soul during this dreadful period as he died with Alzheimer's, and it haunts me to this day what I saw, and with what I perceived and learned. One thing was clear eventually: Daddy's soul suffered. There was a vacuity none of us want to fully embrace because it is a terror with no thought process. It has its own scent, its own movement and time; it suspends over an uncertain substance. . .

Maybe I do understand your claim: Alzheimer's' is a disease of the brain that is paid for with the currency of the heart." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (first born of Herbert and Constance B. Woods) 8/29/18 

Daddy dancing at his grandson, Lemuel's second wedding December 4, 2010. 

WHEN WE AWAKEN: Be Firm To Affirm.

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

Adventure has its mystery wrapped in what evolves within the soul engrossed in adventures. The few who do have adventures explore. It is the exploration that designs the journey. In the U.S. women can find reasons not to explore. Those who do follow their impulses create engaging forces that have to travel. In the end of each story are people who resent adventurous spirits.

"Do not let their voices divide your impulse," said the old to the young. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/20/18

TERROR

In American mythology nudity, speed, sound, movement suggest the dangers of American life can be controlled on a motorcycle. It is all in the dream of white American manhood... 

The actor, James Dean, amongst other young white men, famous for their fashionable aloofness, their rebellious attitudes, set the tone of disenchantment with the 'Establishment' (as expressed in the 1960's). Motorbikes were symbols of rebellion since the 1950's, and into the 1970's as the myth of white disenchantment became more and more violent until organization skills turned motorcycle gangs into business aligned with the mythology, and value system of colonization, conquest and terror their ancestors invested in and employed. 

The recycling of ideologies is composed to continue to stir violence in white American blood. Donald Trump is deeply intuned to its byproducts, its presence and his duty to white Americans, and their sense of global dominance.  

~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/20/18  

"Women in the 1970's were from the previous decade where the gift they gave their daughters originated from. Unappreciative today, white women are repeating themselves in their fights for baffling reasons. 1970's white women like this had a freer tone in their voices. The all woman aspect in their carriage promised to further explore what that meant. Historical fears blocked a lot of that . Today, fearful of white men white women hesitate." ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

"Women who kill have crossed a line in the choices their gender has to make with their powers of birth." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/23/18

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"London Hart's delicate beauty's strengths translate from intangible elements supporting her essential to become a woman with depth, one hopes..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

the African People + the Terrorists

Royalty has its way of expressing itself outside the vernacular of Europe with profound dignity and the lightness of play with the essential elements of spirituality, in the context of what is ancient about African traditions. This is far away from the pretense of British royalty, which does not repent playing its game, as if its evil has nothing to do with its stench, its practiced cruelty and the Arabic terror attacks in Europe and the U.S.! This kind of denial is unique among apex predators. It is a blindness protected by fear: fear they created and sustained in others, and by the techniques that employ servitude with gratitude colored by fears of 'them'!

This is a language whites, for hundreds of years, have refused to acknowledge but know; didn't want to accept, but outlawed taking humanity from other people they don't respect. That's a puzzle? Imagine being the grandchild of an ex-slave negotiating a life among masters of terror, who claim not to be the terror they generate!

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
September 3, 2018

Royalty has its way...

Under Trump KKK resurfaces with aplomb.

Donald Trump's presence on the international stage isn't comic relief. It is, amongst other things, a revival of Jim Crow's spirit. My caution is felt in the air. White broadcasters and the news media most Americans listen to are distant from the pulse of non-whites. We, of the darker hue, have long memories, and own no reason to be confident in the intent of good white people. Our old people, our parents always whispered in our young ears: "It is never a question of if, but when will whites betray you!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/02/18 

Beautiful and compelling white women, like Mona Wales, have tempted and taken many sons from Black mothers. The white led to red blood on green grass growing from brown earth. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/02/18

WAKE UP to LIVE!

The African woman is the great divide in the consciousness of freedom because of the interference of European thought and aggressive terrorism. . . ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/22/18

the Art of the Feminine melanin.

Legacy of the British Empire.

Princess Diana.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist activist, orator, and writer who founded the Betar Movement. He was also a soldier who founded the Jewish Legion during World War I.

Jabotinsky (born October 18, 1880; died August 4, 1940) was born as Vladimir into a middle-class Jewish family in the Russian city of Odessa. At the age of 18, he left Odessa to study law in Italy and Switzerland, where he also served as a foreign correspondent for several well­known Russian newspapers. His reports and articles were widely read and soon became recognized as one of the brilliant exponents of Russian journalism. All his reports and articles were signed with his literary pseudonym “Altalena.” . . . continue reading 

President Ronald Reagan telling it like it is.

On the surface American Christians sound 'right' and justified vilifying Arabs, and those against Israel because of the Bible, and what is said in the Bible. It all incites self-righteous attitudes dipping its adherents towards a dogma, with a notion of supremacy over reasonable objections to the stance made by those in the so-called Army of the Lord.

Millions of American Christians cannot stray, with confidence, from the controversial reasons for saying, 'yea' to all aggression from Israel towards any perceived threat, or country against them; even if Israel started the misuse of power. The prophecies and stories in the Old Testament support the notion of 'right thinking' on this subject; meaning God is behind Israel and the Israelites are his chosen. This is the core of American policy towards Israel. New Testament philosophy began with this understanding of Israel's place in the Christian practice in the West. Despite the fact the first century followers of Jesus, who were accepted by Rome purposely worked to remove themselves from the vestiges of the progenitor of their new faith; today's form of Christianity informs the need to kill and take. 

This is perplexing, isn't it? 

The serious American citizen needs to look deeply into the Torah, the first five (5) books of the Bible, to gain a footing in the theology that allows our government to not intervene on behalf of the Palestine people. The average Christian needs to look closely at these justifications for a higher purpose: healing of their own souls, and release from the evil to whom (we) are devoted. For the slaughter and the taste of it; American foreign policy aims at Arabs and the enemies of Israel missiles, and gives financial support. The Israeli apartheid system designed around Palestinians to protect the Jewish systems of thought, and its contradictions comforts Jim Crow. Why would white Americans change for peace to take precedence over their predilections?

It doesn't make sense.  

So one last question remains: "How did conservatism, business, American dictatorial patriotism, and Christianity meld into one ideology?" We all need that answer. Without the truth as an answer, as soul singer, Curtis Mayfield sang, "If there's a hell below, we all gonna go!"  

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

5/25/18 

cartoon. "Please don't leave us... "

WOMEN in TERROR.

Joséphine Marcus Earp was the

common-law wife of Wyatt Earp.

IN the terror of being a woman in the Western world is the fact of white women's fear of white men prone to kill them at the core of the crisis. In the game to stay invisible, to a degree, and available for opportunities is the ever risk of forever being a sex object. It would be different in a society balanced by elements that coincide with respect and depth to the understanding of womanhood.

The simplest way of telling this story is to tell the truth. What flies into the proverbial fan is fear of the truth and ignorance of the core of the collective history behind this stage of the women's movement! Women will always be sex objects and just as well because men will always want to have sex with women, and women will always want men for sex! The attraction is natural. The danger in modern life in a variety of countries are the conflicts of belief and religion in conflict with the feeling of inadequacy men in these cultures have inside of them.

In the cultures, where the belief in the assumption of men's superiority over women, confuses the inadequate feeling undeveloped men nurse in the presence of women, hide the deep contradictions that became part of organized religions. These religions placed laws into the daily lives of its adherents that justified wrongs against women and worse developed a creed. Rape is justified by scripture, bad behavior towards women is justified in the story of Eve in the Abrahamic texts and practiced in lieu of disciplined training of the mind, the spirit and the emotions of men, who find a way out of expanding their existence into true power, deep knowledge and the awareness from controlling one's spirit!

Men are supposed to ground themselves with a series of questions beginning with innocence. "Who are the innocent, and who will protect the innocent?" Innocence is where all of us begin our living. How men develop contempt for women from a patriarchal religion is a mysterious deception from the evil place of not being truthful, and from not being themselves, in the deep context of masculinity! What isn't innocent in the innocuous cat call towards women embedded in the contradictions we learn living in the States? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (5/01/18)

YESTERDAY. 

Changing a tire!

Nana’s system for changing a flat tyre: 1. Get tools ready. 2. Flash your ‘motorist in distress’ knickers. 3. Wait for kind gentleman to stop and help. ~ anon 

NOT FAR: Europe's DARK AGES!

Grief after Kavanaugh's appointment. 

photo by Mary Mathis. October 5, 2018.

I shot the Kavanaugh protests this morning for NPR, and this is the photo that will always stick with me. I walked up to her after, needing her name for the photo but knowing it was a terrible time to ask. When I asked, she ignored me and said, “How are we going to find the strength to keep fighting?” I was speechless.
She said, “Are we going to be out here for another 30 years? I don’t have 30 years left.” - Mary Mathis

Kyla Cole, in the powers of... 

photographer unknown. Sorry. 

IN Tommorrow, Now.

Angaangaq in front of the tomb of John Paul II who opened the way to reconciliation between the Catholic Church and indigenous peoples worldwide. May 1, 2018. photo by Adelgunde Müller 

Angaangaq met him personally in 1979.

In the years I have been a Sirmiq Aattuq Wisdom Keeper, it has not been lost on me the resistance of Americans to evolve beyond the diametric perceptions of race based philosophies and lifestyles between Blacks and whites, and whites and the other peoples of the world. The Trump administration expresses this determination. Whether it is self-destructive, or not is of no concern to those people, and their president, who is loyal to these ideals, and faithful to what does not serve the common good, doesn't give a hot damn about consequences. He is very much the white American man.

The end of that is nigh. How will you, we and I prepare for this eventuality? 


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 
Alowan Chanteh Inyan Wichasha
9/23/18

Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq March 2018 in Cologne Tajet Garden. 

Melting the ice in the heart of men.

9/11, Bullshit and Denial.

I have the talent and the eye of a good photographer, but when I was coming up as a child it was impolite to take pictures traveling and living in various countries. Americans were intrusive. After the Korean war and the other wars waged by the mid-20th century, people were weary of American intrusion passing itself as diplomacy. So, I learned to interpret the visual with sound and words over the length of my decades.  In short, I studied. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (9/10/18) 

Gangsta chicks like this are a version of masculinity that submits to crude male belief in the dominance of the dick over pussy. It is a self-inflicted wound from deep wounds to the soul,and it is at the crux of the ideology of survival within poverty all across this country. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9/11/18 

Chola in her 'Charley Brown'!

Vatos Locos.

Organized gangs are more representative of the soul of America. How are they ignored on September 11, 2018? Easily. As long as we cling to the myth of America we don't see the country as it is to others victimized by our ways of life! What am I thinking of making such a statement?

First of all, I am not caught up in the whining and impish patriotism fluttering about 17 years after those men crashed planes into buildings in New York city, Pennsylvania and D.C., where I was during the attack. Second, I was keenly aware of what these attacks meant beyond the terror of the moment. I saw the opening in a paradigm to change the world, and our worldview to usher in peace on that day within a few hours. There were others, but as the weeks became months it was apparent the chance for peace wasn't going to occur. War-like people have to engage their soul with killing.

It is impossible for white Americans, in particular, to move beyond the immature impulse to remain within the initial stage of shock and disbelief. Seventeen years later, and white Americans still behave in the emotional state immediately after a violent attack. Third thing that stands out is remembering how intently the coverage about the loss of white lives dominated coverage of the event for a long time, and the lack of historical reference to give a proper perspective to the event. To this day, the world silently breaths in contempt for the melodrama of September 11 remembrance events.

I know I do.

How does the chief among predatory forces illicit pity from other countries whose citizens still smart after what we have done to them?


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
9/11/18