Painting what WE Know.

To trust ourselves is an art. We are unsure after so many breakups with our beliefs. To trust oneself is a difficult love affair. Religion, society, politics have broken our hearts. Burned by our beliefs, we are exhausted. But our knowing has never died. Ask yourself right now: "Whom do I trust?" "Do I trust myself?" "Do I know things that nobody can prove?" - Durga Holzhauser (Feb 22, 2017)

Durga Holzhauser said,

"Creativity is inherent in the fireball of this universe, it is for you too.

You were created by all elementary particles of the universe."

Feb. 21, 2017

Famous Black MEN and their white WIVES they TRUST!

There is clearly something these celebrities understand and have reacted to and married white that the average Black doesn't understand, or want to weigh in the balance. At a certain level of excellence a man needs to have a woman committed to excellence who understands the depth of what it takes to make real a vision, a quest, a dream. With millions of Black women not at that level of being they are outside of the chance of marrying such men. They exist not far beyond survival. They will never find themselves married to this calibre of man! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [5/28/17]

Cuba Gooding Jr. and his wife

Eddie Murphy and his wife.

Cornel West with his wife.

Damon Dash and his wife.

That makes sense. I bet her energies match and exceed his enough to challenge him to better at the level of excellence he abides in naturally. Anyway, I bet he doesn't give a damn about my opinion where he is in his life. The only thing important about seeing a picture of his wife is to glimpse the strength of the man himself: his wife. Every strong man's wife is his strength! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/28/17

Plain is Simple.

"Conservatism conceals what older women reveal into the common arena of intimacy shared by a man she trust. This is sacred space and how she indulges remains secret because it is special reserved..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories   

Scarlett Johanssen. "I think the plainness of this woman, as is so with other white women like her, is the canvas upon which artists add to and color what a regular person cannot see to bring it out. Beauty as art is a gift." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Anna Clair by Karis Marie Photography. (2016)

Demi Moore by Peter Lindbergh for Donna Karan ad.

Exploration of Forgiveness

Older woman in white towel thinking 

1.

Sometimes it isn't healthy to "make" it work........especially when you've tried almost every way under the sun. It becomes a drain and toxic to both people. There's a difference between "giving up" and just having the wisdom to know it's time to walk away. - Jessica Nicole  8.7.15

Jasmine Johnson agreed saying, "Hall yes!! thank you, some of these posts make it sound like those of us who have needed to walk away took the easy way out! when in reality it wasn't easy at all, it was necessary for self preservation."

Ashfaq Janjua I agree. Love is a two way street. Some people aren't ready, some people are afraid, some haven't the foggiest idea what love is and and some don't know the difference between Love and lust. If you're comfortable with who you are, have self respect and have any love for yourself, it becomes easier but the hurt still remains but gets easier over time. Get to know and embrace the real you to find happiness.


2.

What do u do when the trust is gone, the care is there but u can't make it work? I want full blown love truth and honesty, if your gonna live a lie what's the point?! It has to be real and it has to be powerful and amazing or it's not worth having.

Some things can't be worked out once the damage is Done - Hayley Smith

Your words come from the end of a road. I suggest coming away with the beginning of learning to unlearn and trust again with new parameters, new definitions and the freedom that comes from deep cleansing after a "ceremonial time of recapitulation". - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.9.15

3.

"Adultery is forgivable. It is somewhere deep beyond belief and other things that prevent it from happening." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

"LOVE is the greatest feeling in the world and the GREATEST challenge to share if you've never experienced it. Lust is not love." - Lee T Judy

Relationships bring perspective 

Language heard by Soul (3)



bicycle rider facing a road.

We are all facing a road at each juncture of our lives. The decisions we make are based upon belief, knowing, fear and hope. Trust factors are in there because we sometimes have to trust the process we embarked upon when we decided to become part of this lifetime. 

This is what a warrior thinks about. What he or she does as a warrior is based upon the code they live by. Do you have a code? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Dawn Wolf) 6.28.16

P O W E R tools

"The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard." 

- Kahlil Gibran 



Serene protestor in Baton Rouge, LA July 2016.
Leshia Evans


STRENGTH 

"The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven." - Kahlil Gibran





beautiful Puerto Rican woman !!!!

WEAKNESS

"That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man." - Kahlil Gibran

Great love

Do The Right Thing
By Dr. Sinclair Grey III
November 10, 2015


Sadly, shamefully, and sinfully, there are many people in the world taking God and His mercy for granted. Let me say it this way. When God provides opportunities for repentance to get one's life right to do the right thing, there's a tendency to make excuses and say, 'I'm not ready at this moment.' Can I drop this in your spirit? Statements and declarations that delay change are tricks of the enemy. God loves you too much for you to provide excuses. As a matter of fact, there's a poem entitled Excuses which says, “Excuses are tools of incompetence which builds monuments of nothingness and those who specialize in using them, seldom amount to anything in life.”


The writer of Proverbs penned the words, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” Please don't miss this. The more you love God, the more you're committed to doing what's right. Here's the Sinclair remix. The greater your love and appreciation for all the LORD has done and continues to do for you, the more you strive not to mess up. From this day forward, I urge you and implore you to not take God's mercy for granted. Be real about God because He's real about you.

portrait of an old Plains Indian man praying.

 

A Story Born

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"The soft music of a touch, the smell, the ardor of the Earth, our Mother, the way it feels to look at you and hear songs, and symphony makes for the way I say your name, and know who you are..."

She looked off into the distance his voice trailing off in her mind down a narrow path in a forest wet with morning dew, and sighed into her feelings. She'd heard herself over time yearn to be loved, appreciated and seen for who she is, but in the presence of it it was more than she was prepared to receive. - Gregory E. Woods 10.7.13

from Deb Young's gallery

The Piano Lady

Dec. 4, 2012

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The virtue: PATIENCE

farm house Capanno nei campi in a storm.

“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never runs out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.” - Rumi 


Coloured thoughts of, about and for Life

Trust in the Face

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress, on the red carpet

Older famous women on the red carpet.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus
gallery

A Moment in the SUN

Jennifer Nguyen in the sun
July 20, 2010

Purity is longed for, and joy is run away by the lives many are forced to live. But, purity is the first form of expression when born, and joy is the by-product of childhood, and innocence. How we keep what is pure within us, and brings joy to the moments is our fading innocence talking to what is crude around us, saying, "There is no vitality in coarseness. Be Free!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11.13.13

Jennifer Nguyen by WARD Laforme Jr.
July 28, 2010

TRAVEL to Trust

Nightcap Clothing

May 4, 2013

Trust to Love

Love. Loving someone from another family is a great risk made easier by the stories one's heart tells another.  The greatest lovers throughout time have always known risk, and chanced upon truths within others that know each other intimately almost from the start of the friendship. 

Love. 

Love is a great risk worth taking. Trust to love. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.9.13

Courteney Cox and Adam Sandler in a scene worthy of introspection in the 2005 movie The Longest Yard. 

The Beauty of Learning about Love

Dorothy Dandridge 

“Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of his woman’s emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trustability, and she can relax."  ~David Deida












"A deep sexual sharing allows me to flow my energy fully with another. A deep sexual sharing is about quality, connection, depth and love, and not necessarily frequency.
Sharing our sexual intimacy with another brings a richness which can’t be experienced alone. We can reach depths of fulfillment and pleasure with a partner which are difficult to achieve alone. Sexuality, by its very nature, is intended to be shared, and when two people have a shared understanding and approach to their sexual intimacy, it enhances their lives individually and together in ways that are hard to describe to those that have yet to experience that."  from Sacred Dreams


This only truly happens when the intimacy between the two people has a base of love and attraction/chemistry, mutual respect, intention, and trust. All other sex is just a means to an end. I know this because I finally have the deep intimate sexual relationship I had been waiting for my entire adult life. - Naomi Kiefer  

At Le Bustiere one can purchase this and other pieces of cloth and turn their husbands out and into mush. It is right here in the heart of Washington DC in Adams Morgan at 1744 Columbia Road, NW. You can bet your bottom dollar I'll be there! January 16 , 2014

the Story of Eyes

Mariko Okubo coiled on the bottom stair in a dark black near blue slip wasn't welcoming, nor resistant to his need for her, or his advances step by step...

Mya Diamond in red mini dress !!!!

A STORY

Is the story in our eyes the story we want told? was the question he asked of himself thinking the thoughts a man thought about taking in a lover he didn't need, but wanted; wanted, but knew better than to want. The capacity to take care of another's soul is a gift of life for some men, and something to play with for some women unappreciative of the gift. It is a tricky thing seducing someone. The lines are never clear to the seductress when her heart's stone has been penetrated by honesty in the next lover. There is an ache for the genuine and the authentic that surfaces and a discovery about the compelling force of her convictions and justifications. It (bitterness) cannot make a subsistence living within seduction the way a jilted lover thinks. Love and the need to forgive to receive love makes a brief entrance upon the landscape of every deceptive person's range of emotions and motives. 

In the story of our lives what will we live with that searches through the template of deception to achieve the lust of the  flesh? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.18.13 

Paris Hilton's ... 

TRUST or THINK

Garcelle  Beauvais, actress

Ginger

Protesting on Wall Street

"Women spark inspiration, innovation, and propel introspection into men's lives. It is their elemental Medicine. Each woman is potential. 

It is hard to draw contrasts, as I age. My eyes moisten, at times, with a compilation of thoughts, and recollections of the nuances of change. Is it fair to judge? Yes, and no. Judgment of a potential friend, lover, or wife is part of the assessments a man needs to make. Saying there is no judgment simply isn't true. It is pretentious to affirm that one isn't judging situations, and people. We do, and have to judge. The central focus of judgment is to determine accountability, depth, intelligence, compatibility, trust, and capacity to love.  It isn't a religious tool. It is a warriors' evaluation of the field, the scope of things to come because every choice has things people, and events to follow his decisions. Will you be ready for them? Will you be fair? Will you be yourself in this relationship? These are fundamental questions to ask, and expect answers from because relationships determine life and define the nature of one's death." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4.24.13

"The Moon says. . ."

"I asked the night sky what it wanted of me, as clouds rolled in and the scent of rain turned a cold Spring dusk into a shamanic dream. It spoke clearly and softly, 'I never ask anything of you, nor should you ask what I need of you. Rather, let me simply be and I will do the same. In this way, all will understand that where there is shadow, there is light; to see clear light, a moon will always be best visible at night. For us to examine or reflect Source, a willingness to embrace it all is key. I embrace you... will you embrace me?' I kept on my walk until finally I could see an April moon staring down at me, through a thick cloud. I felt two tears come down my face. One for Grief and one for Loneliness. Each fell to the ground and immediately I could sense it would water Joy and Companionship. It is as Rumi said and his words match my soul's journey tonight. May this find you at peace, with the darkest nights or brightest moments of the day. All is Love. Let those who say otherwise face the shadows. It is time. Aho!" ~ author of Enlightened-ish by Gail Dickert and Coming Out without Coming Apart (4.22.13)


Love  this, Gail! If one tear is loneliness and one tear grief, what are the other hundreds I cry named? So I can name them, then I know them personally and can look them in the eye. And know that what looks back at me isn't "out there" but a reflection of what's "inside" of me, that forms a pool to quench the aching thirst of my own Soul for Love, True Love! Will anyone ever drink from the pool in my Soul again? Ah, I must first tear down the barriers that surround the pool, then... and only then... will someone come to the pool to quench their thirst! jlpirtle "GoldDragon" - Jan Pirtle April 22, 2013

NAUGHTY BY NEIGHBOR

My naughty neighbor caught a hold of herself when my wife saw the motion of my direction. How  a man responds to the  come hithers of women desirous of him measures the man, and displays the trust lines relationships require of each person. Sexual appeal is a gift and a given. They are so deeply a part of us, and necessary for spiritual development it takes away the absurdity of asserting that Jesus of Nazareth was a virgin; never got laid. Such a declaration, a teaching flies into the face of his spiritual teachings rendering them void, and unearned because the teachings would be devoid of the required balance of existence to be powerful and enduring. So fundamental is this balance to teachings, and cultural assertions, life forms, and sexual proclamations of today that without it types of death come in to play with our lives; our souls in very quiet supple ways. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3.3.13

Black woman's mature beauty lays claim to nothing but power; the declaration of power, the ability to be powerful, the need for power, and the essence of power to embolden her man, or the men of her life. Such power. Such power from the essence of our birth dreams. As men honor that, ponder it, and gauge where you fit in the vast network of worlds from whence we come, and create as lovers for the women, or woman we need. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

A Black woman beach volleyball player is not the normal thing
you'd see on a beach in the United States... So, it happens does it? 

a BOY'S childhood

"Here my childhood. I am six years old. Mommy let the dreams, and the moments happen unfettered by convention, or even definitions and names of things..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

by Julia Gabrielov, illustrator

Beautiful fantasy and fashion illustration by artist Julia Gabrielov.
Located in Norfolk VA - Open for commission work!
www.juliagabrielov.com
 

 

old GOING bad

small tits...

After 17 years of marriage, a man dumped his wife for a younger woman. The downtown luxury apartment was in his name and he wanted to 
remain there with his new love so he asked the wife to move out, and then he would buy her another place. The wife agreed to this, but asked that she be given 3 days on her own there, to pack up her things. 

While he was gone, the first day she lovingly put her personal 
belongings into boxes and crates and suitcases. 

On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things. 

On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their 
candlelit Dining table, soft music playing in the background, and 
feasted on a pound of shrimp and a bottle of Chardonnay. 

When she had finished, she went into each room and deposited a few 
of the resulting shrimp shells into the hollow of the curtain 
rods. She then cleaned up the kitchen and left. 

The husband came back, with his new girl, and all was bliss for 
the first few days. Then it started slowly, but surely. Clueless, 
the man could not explain why the place smelled so bad. 

They tried everything; cleaned & mopped and aired the place out. 
Vents were checked for dead rodents, carpets were steam cleaned, 
Air fresheners were hung everywhere. Exterminators were brought 
in, the carpets were replaced, and on it went. 

Finally, they could take it no more and decided to move. The 
Moving company arrived and did a very professional packing job, 
taking everything to their new home...

...including the curtain rods.

small picture 

Songs in the Key of SoulBEloved #124

Ngaronoa Mereana Taki, Maori Grandmother-Teacher
March 3, 2012

“Absolutes exist where we place them within us.” 

- Gregory E. Woods,

Keeper of Stories 8/19/12

"‎...there aren't any whatsoever. absolutes are posing az ...not inwardly nor outwardly ...there is a play on thematics which is stripped naked when words realise their own limits in the hinterlands of cognitive schemas ...windows to the heart stargate of the Souls infinitude." 

- Ngaronoa Mereana Taki (8/19/12)

MARRIED WITHOUT CHILDREN