SLEEP

“I don't have anything to add to this discussion. Medication is not something I know in depth. I understand the unnatural relationships people hold, and practice in modern life as a cause of disease. Sleep is a sacred ritual. It has always been a treasured part of the day. It belongs to the simple ritual that holds lives together. Fitting such a 'nuisance' to the fast pace of modern life sleep has become a cast away. As a castaway the talk about, and around sleep is awkward, and unnatural. It has been removed from its function, and no longer holds a sacred place of dreams, revival, and power. The mysterious joys of sleeping and entering into the magical realms of healing, other realms of being a created being, and deep rest are lost in a culture of acquisition where speed is a virtue, and exhaustion is an admirable trait leading people to their deaths prematurely.

Carmen Chaplin's tattooed body by Cindy Marler !!!!

I don’t live in an ivory tower. I worked too many hours as a young father here and there in those years. It led to exhaustion, and near fatal accidents. I remember falling asleep driving on the highway four times. Once I drove several miles asleep on the beltway. When I reached breaking points I walked into the forest and would sleep deeply nestled within a stick and mud home I had built. Those sleeps would break up 17-hour shifts, and settle my body into its natural form. I don’t work like that anymore. American life is too shallow a state of being to forfeit so precious a thing like sleep. I turned my driver’s license in to the state, and began a new life.” – Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

African powers female

African woman's power stance

LIFE: bare down to the bone...

Anne V & Adam Levine on red carpet of 2012 Grammys !!!!

“Life is about learning how to die, how to let go, and to hold on to what is really important.” – Patti Davis, President Reagan’s daughter’s reflection about her father’s debilitating disease, and eventual death.

Asian woman volleyball player dives for a ball

 

PREGNANT at BIRTH: Keri Russell

pregnant actress Keri Russell with 2nd child in 2011

Actress Keri Russell

It is a wonder women can still extol the freedoms, and fun of their pregnancies with the torrential downpour of ridicule of motherhood, and the arguments justifying abortion by denying or measuring the life of a child in the womb. How many laws began with dark emotions heated by anger at something in someone’s past? Looking at the picture of actress Keri Russell pregnant with her marriage’s extension into the future her words, “I just feel like birth is one of the most powerful things that can happen to a woman, and it's nice to be reminded that you are built to do this..." springs forward with light into the raging controversy within women’s movements in a man's world. – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

FAITH

Whoopi Goldberg host of 62nd Tony Awards

“Standing on the logical side of faith without being immersed and balanced within the energies, and the elements that composed the song of one’s religion, I discovered faith is not enough. Often the weakness of adherents to any faith is their lack of grounding in the depth of the tenets, the history, and spirit of their progenitor texts. Physically, in plain English, what one believes is stronger than their religion. Not understanding this is the root of so many problems.” - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

woman with red hair by Albert Herter

FAITH



“The ease of living is in the breath. If you can breath from one moment to the next changes will be felt differently... Faith? As I get older faith, my faith is linked to my ability to live in the present appreciating what I have within me, and what I have eaten amongst other things basic to living out one's Sacred Dream.” – Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

SACRED STORY: Betty Page as Catwoman

Betty Page

"... The divinity of a moment of intimacy can expand life or plunge it deeply into the mysteries of beginnings." - Dawn Wolf

PREGNANT at BIRTH: Pink

pregnant singer Pink & her husband Carey Hart had a daughter Willow June 1, 2011

I was stirred by Pink’s raw energy onstage whenever I saw her, and thought long about women I’d known over the years who turned me on making me wonder what life would be like if we hooked up, married or had a child together. I engaged a lot of self-analysis because my inclinations were daring; they were bold and dangerous at times. There was a wild spell I felt the pain of the realization that deep relationships with women were passé, and sent calls out for a woman raw, pink or brown who was really dangerous, sexy, passionate who would and could attach herself to me for the ride of a lifetime without the covenant ceremonies I was skilled at initiating. Incredible sex, adventure and the freedom of wander with or without her would have been ideal for me at the time.



One day Sheila told me about her wild Panamanian cousin in the Carolinas or Florida who was a skilled and professional thief. I saw her picture and looked at the danger in her eyes and said, “That’s it. She’s the one, Sheila! Hook us up!” Even Chandler agreed. He’d counseled me on the subject at a restaurant once. We’ll it never happened. On the way up to Maryland to meet Sheila the Feds arrested her and she began serving hard time…


Now here is that singer, Pink, a wife, and mother. I guess wildness and motherhood co-habit within one body. I thought of these things and more reading Pink’s words, "My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes. Now it's snot tears and the color of poop. I do miss the whiskey, though!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

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Pink in blue ( read her arm tattoo)