Fitness Area
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Autumn Austin – My Most Viewed Image @FineArtAmerica Week 2 September 2019 😊
“I invite you to join along in my creative journey 😊 ”
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Recently Updated Blog Posts on My Site 091619 😊
“As I progress through updating my posts since 2011, I’ll post periodic updates here of which ones….” 😊
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Recently Updated Blog Posts on My Site 091419 😊
“As I progress through updating my posts since 2011, I’ll post periodic updates here of which ones….” 😊
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My Meditation & Art – Synergy, Or Coincidence Redux? 😊
Einstein’s said to have said, “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
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The Yoga Bowl & Florals! – My Most Viewed Images @FineArtAmerica 1st Week September 2019 😊
“If should like a pointer link to any types of images or image itself, please post in the comments – thanks so much! 😊 ”
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Blog Post Update Alert 😊 – Biking Across Lake Champlain Vermont – Four Years in the Making Circa 2015 🚴♀️
“Crossing – finally crossing – Lake Champlain on a bicycle was a major desired milestone of mine that’s persisted since I’d first learned it existed, back in the summer of 2011.”
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Meditation: Am I Doing It Yet? Part 1 — “who defines meditation?”
“This is a full repost not a reblog of my 2011 blog post…The reason I’ve decided on a full repost is to bring it to the fore, as some of these questions then came up to me again during the early days of recovery from my 2nd surgery.”
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My Day Ahead – Sept 07, 2019
“Hope’s the seed of optimism…And if I can tolerate coffee this morning I’ll be brimming with hope” 😊
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The Yoga Bowl – Short Family Story by Felipe Adan Lerma
“I wrote The Yoga Bowl a few years ago, early 2015, as part of a group author contribution of short stories for a charity compilation edition, You’re Not Alone: An Indie Author Anthology.”
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Today’s My Surgery – But I’ve Restocked My Art at Old Bakery & Emporium 😊
“What a treat to restock some of my prints before my surgery – yay!“
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What Should I Do Right Before My Surgery? Fix Up My Art Room!! 😊
“If my recovery from tomorrow’s hiatal surgery trails (as per the Dr’s) slightly longer than my emergency gallbladder surgery from the end of June, it’ll be early to mid November before I feel as able and wanting to do things as right now – sounds, with my wife’s help…”
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My 1st Zumba Gold Class Since, Well, 2011! 💃 😊
“I definitely challenged both the notion of what was reasonable or possible for me at this point in my recovery, but it was good have a pace that let me do the class, start to finish!”
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SilverSneakers Yoga – Update 2+ Months Later, My First Class Since My Surgery 😊 🙏
First yoga class after emergency gall bladder surgery, with Shelagh Chandler, a long time dedicated SilverSneakers instructor from yoga to dance cardio… New blog post from Felipe Adan Lerma
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At the Old Bakery & Emporium – 1st Volunteer Work Shift Since My Surgery – The Preponderance of Wonderful Paintings & Photos Has Me Thinking…
“…looking at my memories in pigment, my remembrances in pixels – I realize I need to do something more with my images.“
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I Slept like a Log, uh, Tree (Pose)
This post is a complete re-post & update (not a reblog) of “I slept like a log, uh, tree (pose)” — my most 8th most popular post since I’ve been on WordPress ♥️ A sampling of related posts 2011-2019 are below.
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Aging Gracefully – A Creative History : My Blog Feb 2011 – Jul 2019 😊
“…the only thing I fully realize right now is how much more I can learn if I want or need to. And with all the ideas I keep having, and all the social media opps available today, that should be fun!”
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My Most Visited Post of the Week, Mon-Sun Ending 08.04.19
My Most Visited Post of the Week, Mon-Sun Ending 08.04.19
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My Top Pins On Pinterest This Week! Who Knew! Well, Now I do, lol 😂
I guess the time has come – even if slowly, I still have med procedures & recovery through the next few months – to learn what I can do with Pinterest.
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Aging Gracefully – Update on My Health & Upcoming “Tune-up” 😊
I’ve also been working on a major blog update post with “tune-up” in the title for nearly a week. I must have tune-up on the brain syndrome 😊
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 7 Final Day! Excerpt Football 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 6 Excerpt Marathon 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 5 Excerpt Determination 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 4 Excerpt Bicycling 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 3 Excerpt Yoga 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 2 Excerpt Volleyball 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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101 Sports Poems – 7 Day 61% Off Sale, Day 1 Excerpt 😊
“Sports is where a person can compete with oneself, and with others, with integrity and safety… “Sports is where a person can learn a great deal about themselves doing something they love… “It’s rare that integrity and fun can be found in one activity, but sports is at its best when combining the two.“
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Have a Great Friday & Weekend Everyone! I’m Taking a Few Days Off, Well, Kinda 😊
“…we played today and we’ll play Friday, then this weekend I’ll look again at my two poems, ‘Cross Country’ circa ’94, and ‘Accelerating Into the Curve’ circa 2012 – and the posts I’m working up for them.”
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Aging Gracefully – Walking’s Paying Off After Surgery, Step by Step 😊
My lesson is — slow is better than not at all. And slow is better than fast too fast, then not being able to move at all, lol!
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Aging Gracefully – When Yoga Breathing Paid Off In the ER 😊
I thought it very cool a breath training segment of some of my yoga classes actually helped enable a health caretaker, my medical helper of the moment, also better “see” inside me, and thus help heal me!
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SilverSneakers Yoga – I’d Forgotten What I Was Missing 😊 🙏
Shelagh Chandler is a long time dedicated SilverSneakers instructor from yoga to dance cardio…I’d forgotten that…. New blog post from Felipe Adan Lerma
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#AgingGracefully – Easier to Hit Fitness Goal Metrics (hint: a lower target heart rate) – Yes! 😊
It was a relief for me to see that going to The Y or gym, work up an out of breath sweat on the elliptical, see a reading between 137 to 152, and realize I wasn’t merely “out of shape!”
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Adan’s Self Portraits, #20 – Aligned with a Half Moon Over Downtown Austin at Zilker Botanical Garden
blog excerpt, I knew right away, with the scent of flowers in the fresh air and a view of Austin’s growing skyline, I wanted a selfie with my walking stick set to that background. Zilker Botanical Garden has been described as both the jewel in the heart of Austin and as the centerpiece of Austin’s…
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Aging Gracefully – Ever Feel the Need To Focus But Your Life is A Shotgun? I Do 😊
No, not really offering any solutions, more an observation 🙂 I do kinda chalk my frequent current state to aging. And yes, when I was younger, say half a century ago, lol, I had as many quality demands on my attention as now: family, all the arts ( music, painting, dancing, film, poetry, etc ),…
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Adan’s Gratitudes – A Little History
About my previous attempts expressing gratitudes in my life and my latest intention to do so 😊 I should emphasize too, these are my public expressions of gratitude. My private expressions, and I think we can and should all feel free to have any number we wish for ourselves, are sometimes reluctant, sometimes infrequent,…
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Finding Color in the Fog – New Painting Upload, Sunrise Through the Fog
A small 8×8 inch oil completed late last year but only now been able to capture in a way I felt did it justice. The colors are laid in via glazed layers and the essence of the image changes as the light on it shifts. The original is no longer available, but prints, posters, and…
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Fitness Reminder on Christmas Day For Every Day
My wife and I have followed Dr. Mirkin’s site for nutrition and fitness information for many years. That he’s a senior, like us, is a big plus, though most of the information is valid for most adult ages. He just seems more cognizant of the challenges (and opportunities) afforded to us as we age (smiles).…
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Biking Across Lake Champlain Vermont – Four Years in the Making 🚴♀️
“Making it to the bike ferry itself, about 3 or 4/5 of the way across, was a major milestone 😊 “
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New Fiction in a New Kindle World – Codename: Chandler
New Fiction in a New Kindle World – Codename: Chandler *** An Unforeseen Afternoon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X4WX27O Kindle World short with my character, Samantha (Sam) Lacroix with Joe Konrath and Ann Voss Peterson’s character, Chandler. Iconic Codename Chandler meets Texas transplant Samantha (Sam) Lacroix at a high school under siege in Chicago. Action and interaction boil and…
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My Blogging Priorities : Fitness, Family, and Fun
My Blogging Priorities : Fitness, Family, and Fun *** Pictured Left : Lunch with Grandma and Grandpa http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LZ7WRE4 Short segments with pov and scene shifts. Set in Austin Texas. Grandparents, grandchildren, and fun. * Original fiction, photo-memoirs, and poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma Available via subscription, direct purchase, or library. *** “the intent of this…
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Two Plus Weeks left in Kindle Unlimited – What to Do, What do Do…
Two Plus Weeks left in Kindle Unlimited – What to Do, What do Do… *** Pictured Left : One Night in the Hill Country Currently available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited Three thoughtful 4 Star reviews: “…especially liked that the children were integral to the plot and the action. They were smart, brave, and…
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Second Month in Kindle Unlimited – Erratic, But Better
Second Month in Kindle Unlimited – Erratic, But Better *** Pictured Left : One Night in the Hill Country Currently available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited Four star review: ” In many cases, the author’s writing style in this book is succinct, flowing along more like free style verse than strict narrative. Both the…
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Volleyball Setter – Original Sports Poetry Back in Stock
Volleyball Setter is available in prints of a variety of sizes and gifts like coffee mugs and t-shirts @FineArtAmerica, and, included in my poetry collection, 101 Sports Poems – https://amzn.to/3bF5nBi .
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Time to Review and Refocus : Health and Creativity
Time to Review and Refocus : Health and Creativity *** Pictured Left : My newest fiction work : A novella, “One Night in the Hill Country” http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MXGMN68 Now available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited * Original fiction, photo-memoirs, and poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma Available via subscription, direct purchase, or library. *** “the intent…
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