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| Raquel Welch in fur! |
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| Jaclyn Smith, actress and business woman, in the splendor of her years is unbelievably fine!! |
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| Raquel Welch an older woman posed |
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| Robin Wright is right! |
Friday, May 4, 2018
Wonder in Older Women
the TAO of nonsense
It is hard not to remember the visual effect of Indonesian women's energies. They were different 40+ years ago. My youth was exciting, as well as magical, and learning how to see Asian women was fun. Each country had a certain look and feel to their women, their food, and the atmosphere of soul. These elements distinguished one country from other Asian countries, and developed Western eyes to see what they don't look like, need to understand. The hope of the exchanges over the last two centuries were lessons to learn how to act in any part of Asia, as human beings!
For the most part, it was unsuccessful.
It is hard to put to words the magical power of learning to be less to learn more about another. It is un-American this perspective, particularly if one is a white American, or a white-thinking Colored person. You see, in every sphere of life loss of magic, the inability to connect head to heart, or having no interest in enjoying attaching magic to daily living diminishes the quality of relationships between countries.
These are things lost to President Trump, and very much a part of his riddle of existence. In diplomatic circles it is a curse, a tombstone being profoundly ignorant and disdainful of the fundamentals of human interaction. But, it is very much a part of what made 'America great'! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/27/17
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| Indonesian modern Kebaya by Annie Avantie. |
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Orange Black
"Black women in most settings redefine place."
- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
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| Black woman in orange is carefully modest and bold! |
"[A] Black woman in orange is modest and bold! Colors lay boldly, or gently on dark skin. It is how gently they gauge their impact upon their public or how little they care about opinions about them that makes what they chose to wear so indescribably appealing!
Of course, I grew up with this. I can always find ways of enjoying the range. . ." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3/9/18
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| Orange hair, blue jeans, black heels on a sepia woman is something strong other women cannot pull off with aplomb, excellence or assurance. It is a gift the powers of Black American women. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories (12.21.16) |
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
BOOK PROMOTION: A LUMBEE GERSHOM
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Anita Jo Shifflet reading her book,
A Lumbee Gershom. (2018)
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Lonely and tired, the lovely young Indian woman with the white father and Lumbee mother embraced courage and chased truth as she looked into the angry eyes of a crowd that judged her. She knew she was the evidence her parents had broken the law by loving and marrying one another. She also knew her existence was evidence that racism exists in people of varying shades of color. Her two worlds melted into one as she looked directly into the eyes of her critics and began to speak.
"For I have been a stranger and have dwelt in a strange land...I am A LUMBEE GERSHOM."
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| Anita Jo Shifflett, Lumbee author and lawyer promoting her book in November of 2016. |
🌻 A LUMBEE GERSHOM🌻Where Do You Dwell? Are you prepared for a journey into my world? A world where my skin deceived those that did not know the true me? A world where I grew up playing with the children of great writers, doctors, attorneys, United States Generals, and even United States Senators. Or would my real world interest you more? The world of my brown skinned mother and my people, the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina. A community filled with clapboard houses, mobile homes standing a top of exposed cinder blocks, old pick up trucks with strong brown arms propped upon doors making their way down old dirtroads, mule pulled tobbaca’ crates, the sweaty faces of the tobacco croppers with barefoot Indian children freely running through flat fields of sand and old Indian women sitting on front porches shelling field peas faster than any machine could possibly imitate.
Such scenes came from my hidden world…the world of A Lumbee Gershom.
Or does my secret world interest you more? A place where words like “miscegenation”, "mixed marraiges”, "Eugenics” and "forbidden love affairs” shaped my young adult life.
And the best part?
Every word is true…. Take the journey with me, JoJo…the original Lumbee Gershom.
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