Showing posts with label tradition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tradition. Show all posts

Sunday, March 17, 2019

How Energy Can Be Developed.


Alessandra Belloni leading a 7 day intensive healing workshop featuring 
Southern Italian ritual dances used for centuries throughout the Mediterranean for healing. (2015)




'Rhythm is the Cure' is a 7-day intensive healing workshop featuring Southern Italian ritual dances used as music and dance therapy for centuries throughout the Mediterranean. Participants will learn the unique style of tambourine playing and the ancient healing trance dance of the tarantella, used to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula. The sessions feature the ancient chants used as an invocation to the healing energy of the sun, the Black Madonna (the ancient Earth Goddess of female energy), the moon, and the Goddess of Water and Love (Aphrodite/Yemanja/Madonna del Mare). March 17, 2015
https://www.facebook.com/events/792614210808855/


Monday, October 22, 2018

IN Honor of LIFE: listen.


Alessandra Belloni by Hasan Bakr, Jan. 9, 2018.


"Listen to the sounds you cannot hear hearing what others may, or may not hear. At some point, Your honest is clarity, your clarity is gratitude. ~ Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories [10/22/18]



FRINGE CREATURES
© Chiara Fersini, artist

FRINGE CREATURES
by Melissa La Flamme


Wisdom ways say,
don't tell.
Show.

Embody.
Smell.
Move.
Breathe
fire.
Sing honey
rising
from the wellspring.

Notice strong
what residue
lingers
on your damp soul,
what releases
a perfectly
discordant note
off the chart
of your everyday
transactional reality.
What surprising riff
alights
psyche's
true
musk;
incites
a rumble
of courage
in you, as you,
crashing on waves
of ancient anger
running pure
now as protest
to overthrow
everything about you
not authentic,
not of soul.

A revolution
you are,
down and dirty
on some wholly, holy
quest
to call in,
reclaim,
protect
and cultivate
all of you,
your one messy life.
Ruthless in its terrible
Beauty.

Discerning,
calling home
your true nature
from every
other
contortion
is what you do
til you don't;
til Mystery
unhinges you,
frees you
from daylight's
mind-chains,

til the trap door to
crazy-wisdom
creaks open
and chaos
wafts
on ancestral winds,
revealing
abandoned buildings
strewn with
burnt-out bodies
of old lies,
waiting for release.

Ask Impossible
questions,
the real ones
you've avoided
til now.
Ask those Others
who meet you
when you're not looking.

The Ones
on the back roads
dusty with wander,
harbingers of a dangerous
liberation—
rare animals with attitude,
fringe creatures,
sovereign,
free of answers. 


© Melissa La Flamme, 2016, 2017 


Melissa La Flamme's book, "What You Are For: Inciting A Revolution In Your Soul," is available on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1478753250


Friday, October 5, 2018

Sister and Brothers...


Cynthia, my little sister, at Vania's bridal shower.




A sister with her brothers! It speaks to the soul of brotherhood in the context of family, from which all other institutions and concepts of manhood springs from. It is an old way of understanding brothers in a family strong and mighty in the assumptions of the cultural vortex, we of the darker hue, live in as family. It means more, this relationship: brothers with sisters.

I should stop there for I am speaking from the deep well of thought the eldest of five sees himself as a brother and a son in a family deeply embedded with the weight and power of legacies!...

Love the picture, I do. These are my words, Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/18/18


We, the Brothers Four! Eric, Gregory, David and Michael Woods. 2017.




When Dr. King spoke: "If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward" I heard the enforcement of the laws of purpose, and felt at the time what it meant to Colored folks. Being young, and being old and a Negro in those times held a stress level that strangled dreams. It killed by fear and emboldened by necessity a killer instinct in others, and made the leaders arise from within the caste system created by the fears white lives developed themselves into monsters or tolerant moderates, afraid to do what was right in the sight of God!

Dr. King, I recall, was despised by so many ministers, but I saw fear of changing the white people around them alive in the purposes the church served in Colored neighborhoods. No one killed like white folks! I remember how television delivered these messages from Martin Luther King Jr. the way word spread through the forests into the towns and cities where 'Members' lived. I remember old people talking about the way storytellers told the old stories to the children around fires in the dark of night! The fires became radio, radio became television and television became the internet, where the family circles disappeared into the mist of separate rain drops.

Now, today broken circles pretend to bring people together. Pieces of a dream are no more effective than broken bowls. The old ways of fighting the demons are the methods to bring the worst of killers to their comeuppance, to trail, to the courts of law, but not the law created by the killers and framed by the beneficiaries of their brutal murders and acquisitions by force and terror.

It is less and it is more our Ancients speaking the old truths our interactions with those from Europe stripped from our knowing of the deep that gave Dr. King his voice... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/18/18

Monday, September 24, 2018

Riddles in the Heart Songs



The Puritan ethic does not acknowledge the legitimacy of the type of men with the full capacity to hold two families together lovingly from a deep capacity to understand how! These men have to live deceptively, for the most part. The argument for this type of lifestyle is just that: an argument! The understanding of this tendency is from a worldwide history...


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
[Sept. 24, 2018]



Heartbroken mother reveals how her marriage collapsed

by Natalie Corner For Mailonline 



A mother-to-twins has revealed how she discovered that her husband had been living a double lifeafter finding his secret Father's Day card from his love child. 
Belinda, from Australia, was left heartbroken when she discovered the card from 'Nate' stashed away in a book on her husband Eddie's nightstand.
Confronting Eddie, Belinda soon learned Nate was in fact Eddie's son with his partner of ten years, Natasha, and that she was the 'other woman'.
Recalling the bombshell that ended their marriage to Whimn Belinda explained how she may never had discovered the truth had she not found the book. 
'I found it, tucked into the pages of a novel in the drawer: a Father's Day card, written in blue text in a child’s scrawl: "To Daddy, happy Father's Day, love from Nate".'
Belinda told of how she met Eddie on a dating app and quickly fell in love getting married a year later.
Eddie had a high-pressure job in the oil industry which meant he was away for eight days at a time then home for six days, which Belinda was happy with.
She compared their relationship to a 'holiday romance' and said they never tired of one another and hardly argued.
After she had their two daughters, Belinda said she found life difficult without Eddie around and he even offered to quit his job and find something local.
Belinda told him not to and their life continued for another two years but then she was forced to confront her husband after finding the card.
But when she asked who 'Nate' was Belinda recalled his quick confession, explaining that he had another family in another city who he visited when he was supposed to be working. 
She continued: 'The most horrible idea I’d been able to come up with was that he had had an affair and was hiding a love child from me, but it was much worse than that. It turned out I was the affair.'
Eddie explained to Belinda how he had been with Natasha for over a decade and managed to juggle both family lives using his job as a cover.
The mother-of-two said she begged him to stay at the house they had bought together but he decided to leave and return back to Natasha. 
Though Belinda is attempting to move on, she did inform Natasha of Eddie's infidelity, and Natasha is understood to have now left him too. 
Daily Mail


Monday, September 3, 2018

Why White?


Bridal party from behind.



The Real Reason You Shouldn’t Wear White After Labor Day




Labor Day is just around the corner. The on-paper function of the holiday, of course, is to honor the men and women whose toil makes the world go ’round. It also marks the unofficial end of summer and start of school. But for the fashion literate—even those only mildly so—Labor Day has a tertiary meaning: the official date after which it’s no longer appropriate to wear white. Jeans, sneakers, casual shirts—wearing white after Labor Day is a surefire way to get in trouble with the fashion police.
Yes, it’s arguably more en vogue these days to break the rules of style than to obey them. And yet, this rule is untouchable. Like “don’t mix your leathers” and “make sure your socks match,” “don’t wear white after Labor Day” is part of sartorial scripture. (To be fair, there are exceptions: button-downs, tee-shirts, knitwear. But, for the most part, if you’re unsure about what is and is not allowed, it’s safest to steer clear.)

In the coming weeks, you can bet on hearing someone or another hurl the phrase in accusatory manner. But, before you let someone get on their high horse for no reason, you should learn why “don’t wear white after Labor Day” became one of the fashion commandments in the first place—and why it might no longer make sense to follow the rule to a tee any longer.

“White is a very formal color,” says Patrick Kenger, a personal image consultant at Pivot Image. Because of the expense required to keep it clean—and avoid it shading into an unsavory cream color—a white uniform would typically denote that the wearer was a person of leisure. Thus, around the time Labor Day was introduced in America during the 1890s, white was a favorite of wealthy New Englanders, who would wear it on summer sojourns to stay cool. (Crucially, in the days before tank tops and t-shirts, the choice of color and fabric was just about all that distinguished a winter outfit from a summer one.)

After Labor Day, however, when it came time for high society return to the soot-covered, industrial northeastern cities where they made their living, white would no longer be a practical option for daily tasks. Instead, the affluent would swap out white linens for darker colors and fabrics to “mark the end of summer with a ‘get-back-to-work’ attitude.” Even if the exorbitant cleaning expenses required by the urban environment to keep whites white could be allayed, the color switch marked a change of mindset. By switching into the darker, dirt-obscuring shades of the laborer, wearers sought to signal that, despite appearances, life for them wasn’t all leisure—that was only the summer months.
If it wasn’t already clear, Kenger says, it’s a “dated rule that people no longer need.”
Still, it’s important to keep in mind that, like the gentlemen and women of yesteryear, “you don’t want to dress like you’re hanging on to those summer months.” So feel free to wear white—or don’t! But next time someone gets hung up on your lack of hue, just tell them you’re avoiding that “‘get-back-to-work’ attitude.” Surely, they’ll understand. And when you want to to improve your wardrobe all year round, start with these 15 Killer Style Accessories You Never Knew You Needed.

Bride looking out into her future...





A dream of white. 


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


Older white woman in sheer night clothes looking happy!



Saturday, April 28, 2018

the Mysterious links Eyes need See...









photographer Leni Riefenstahl, in the 1970's, in Sudan captured this love dance (Njertun) performed by the The Nuba of Kau.



















Thick thighs have saved Black men. This is a part of a whole message of healing a Black woman's capacity to restore aches for balance between her man, her importance in this world against her essential self!..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/28/18







Monday, April 16, 2018

What 'They' Say is True!



Jazsmin Lewis attending premiere of Jackson 5 Dynasty.


Black women have to show up in excellent dress with impeccable manners and sharp intellects poised to engage. Traditionally, it is what Black American mother's taught daughters. This is the high end of expectation. Being poor, or rich has the same requirements of expectation in the Black American system of belief and social conduct. Being ghetto is a recent undevelopment!

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/16/18 


Jasmine Guy, actress, attending film premiere of 'Crazy As Hell'at the 10th Annual Pan African Film Festival, Feb. 6, 2002. photo by Frederick M. Brown.


Tamara Tunie attending Torch Ball. 



Thursday, March 15, 2018

Deep Spiritual Practice.



Little girl in Bagan, Myanmar by Hawah Kasat. February 2018.



Check out her hand positions and #gesture. Try the same right now with your right palm open and fingers perpendicular to your chest... line it up over your heart... and your left hand facing down toward the ground. It’s helpful to do this while you are standing. It’s actually known as a #Mudra in #Yoga. This little one is an #Ancestor. Her face is protected by #traditional and #Ancient #Thanaka which is a yellowish-white paste made from the wood of special #trees that are bountiful in #Myanmar. I’ve been seeing this everywhere on #children, adults, and both women and men. It is a distinctive feature of the #culture of this amazing #people. You’ll see so many people with it applied to the face. From what I’ve learned it has been used for thousands of years. Apart from the tribal beauty it’s known have many medicinal benefits and provides protection from #sunburn! - Hawah Kasat (Feb. 13, 2018)