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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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On my Twitter Feed Yesterday, Wednesday July 10, 2019 – Add Something Positive From Yours In the Comments 😊
“Ideas come to me of things I’d like to do with my blog – this is one I’m gonna try 😊 …Want to participate? Post a positive/encouraging twitter url in the comments. One per person.“
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Adan’s eBay Art – New Painting Available : Dancing Flower
“As chronicled my prev two posts, I ran into a self-imposed snag when I realized — felt? accepted? woke up to? — the work I first wanted to list on eBay, Peace Among the Mist, just wasn’t ready.“
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Update to: Adan’s eBay Art – Construction Improvement 4 My Next Piece = Slight Delay 4 New Picture 😊
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): Prior to new paint today. After new paint today. What Happened Basically, the convergence of my being ill recently, which extended completing our recent move a bit, and seeing my proposed next eBay art offering for the…
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Adan’s eBay Art – Construction Improvement 4 My Next Piece = Slight Delay 4 New Picture 😊
“…the convergence of my being ill recently, which extended completing our recent move a bit, and seeing my proposed next eBay art offering for the first time in months in good light — all got me scooping paint from a tube with a thin palette knife and reworking, ‘Peace Among the Mist.;”
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Fun at the Old Bakery & Emporium Consignors’ 2019 Art Reception 😊
Today’s post is mostly filled with fun pics from last night’s art reception at OBE, the Old Bakery & Emporium! An Important Note First Due to a maintenance schedule change, OBE will be closed the 2nd week of July vs the 3rd, and will thus be closed July 7-15 and reopen Tuesday July 16, 2019…
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Old Bakery & Emporium Vendors’ Art Reception Austin Tonight 😊
Purchase a Personal Use License for any of my images – directly from the artist! 😊 Jpg $1.00 – Tif $2.00Mail me at limitededitionsbyadan@gmail.com with your email & file needs or see purchase button below.Commercial licensing for book covers and other needs also available. About My Two Paintings Due to a move and an emergency gallbladder situation, lol, I…
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I Wanna Win! 😊 – Fine Art America’s July 2019 Billboard Contest 💥
Together, these three images – a BW photograph from Paris, an oil painting of Vermont, and a color photo of Austin – represent both the visual mediums I prefer to create, and, the three places I’ve lived or stayed in extended time that mean most to me.
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Adan’s eBay Art – Changing From Auctions to Set Listings With a Make-An-Offer Option 😊
This format, the fixed price – but – with a nifty make-an-offer option — allows me to start listing the work I’d like to offer w/out worrying about deadlines to remove a work of art to make room!
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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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Adan’s Art – Austin Pink Sunset
“Though I am presenting each image I have individually over time, any image I have posted on Fine Art America or elsewhere is available to choose from as a Limited Edition.” – new blog post: Adan’s Art – Austin Pink Sunset.
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Adan’s Art – Auction #2 – The Bird Bath – Is Live! 😊
My first auction on eBay, ends Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 9am central standard time.
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Delivering My Painting to Art for the People Gallery Austin
Very pleased to drop off “Cobblestone Path Home” for the summer / September show at Art for the People gallery on South 1st Street here in Austin! – new blog post from Felipe Adan Lerma .
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Adan’s Poems – Step Mom
“Throughout the 90’s we wrote these short expressions of encouragement, appreciation, and recognition while showing and selling physical copies at art shows, seasonal mall shows, art & craft shows, and even numerous church events.” – License “Step Mom” for your personal use ❤️
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Paris is Personal – Original Paris Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): Slumming in Paris Part One, Arthur & Gricinda “Paris is Personal” – Original Paris Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma Original Paris Poetry by Felipe Adan Lerma Pictured Left : “Slumming in Paris, Part One”, novella, available on…
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Adan’s Art – 2 New Trends Developing : Limited Editions and Auction Sales of Older Work! – Update 4, New Post Series: Personal Use Licensing, Limited Editions, Auctions 😊
…this is what’s happening, as I figure things out, lol! — I do have 2 new trends, but they’re what have always been my main creative interests: images (Paintings & Photography) + Writings (Poetry & Fiction).
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Adan’s Art – 2 New Trends Developing : Limited Editions and Auction Sales of Older Work! – Update 3, Auction #1 Is Live! 😊
My first auction on eBay, ends Sunday, June 23, 2019 at 9am central standard time.
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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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My Blog’s New Look 😊 — Recent Comments, Top Posts, Choose Your Language, Plus Posts in Title/Image Grid!
My new WordPress theme was doing to my content what the sun and Affinity Photo – my digital program of choice – had done to my old but still much beloved floral arrangement from decades back – given it new improved life!
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Adan’s Art – 2 New Trends Developing : Limited Editions and Auction Sales of Older Work! – Update 2, Choosing My 1st Limited Editions 😊
All my posted images are immediately available as Limited Editions numbered 1 to 100. Buyers may purchase any number not already claimed. I will print on demand as needed. :)
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Hôtel de la Gare
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For the dverse prompt ? I had walked this street so often yet never noticed the façade, the way it shunned the pavement like a criminal, windows dingy, half-shuttered, paintwork the yellowing shade of cheap paperbacks, the name, camouflaged by time and rain barely distinguishable and incongruous— Hôtel de…
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Adan’s Art – 2 New Trends Developing : Limited Editions and Auction Sales of Older Work! – Update 1, Unpacking Art to Auction Soon
Art Auction items — there are seven items I’ve decided will help me make this happen….1. Action smaller works first….
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Aging into Creativity
Historians seemed to not only survive but thrive, possibly..because as we age we tend to muse and compare and find threads in not only our own lives, but the lives of us as people, as a being onto itself — humanity.
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Adan’s Art – 2 New Trends Developing : Limited Editions and Auction Sales of Older Work!
A funny thing happened recently when my wife and I emptied a climate controlled storage area, and then opened several piles of stored boxes inside an extra room — we found paintings, plus prints of work I no longer had, from as early as the 80’s to as recently as the early 2000’s! 😊 -…
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Teaching Seniors is Like Teaching the (almost) Whole Population
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): *** Pictured, “Nice Thing ‘Bout Getting Old(er) a Beginner’s View” http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006ATT7NG Priced Free at participating outlets. *** *** “the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness,…
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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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#PhotoPoem with Image No. 19, Lantern in the Window, From My Multi-Generational New England Thriller “Queen”
** Lantern in the Window(breathing the light) Light passes through glass sleeves fromthe world outside, seeminglystoredinside the hourglass-like guardian calmlypatientlyawaiting the nightwhen it toowill shine, passing its lightin a breath clearly seenback through the glass. © Felipe Adan Lerma *** It’s been a few years since I wrote “Queen” and I’ve had a bit more…
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dVerse – Poets Pub, Prompt “In My Element” – my PhotoPoem entry: “A Moment of Motion”
I’m in a less than two hour deadline (cause I couldn’t get my stuff together since Tuesday to do this sooner, lol) to post this to dVerse Poets’ weekly prompt for first time in many years. I’ll update this page with much more info soon re my prev poetry posts on dVerse here on this…
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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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PhotoPoem – Gold Light in White Rose – Color & Black and White
Similar Distinctiveness Brothers, sisters, siblings or friendsthe blackNwhite and full colorversionsshare much in their distinctions — Fluid folds of delicate strength Furrows of light from within and without Emanating Ancient mazes of petals Drawing both the eyes and the bees Yet — Each glowing easily distinctly With their own perception ofBeauty Images & Verse ©…
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Review – TV – Blacklist Season 06 Episode 20
Disclaimer – I’ve been writing reviews about shows on TV, movies, books, and live performances since I wrote, “A Sudsy Cleansing For the Blues” about the movie, Car Wash back in the mid 70s while at the University of Houston Downtown…so don’t take me too seriously, but definitely count me interested, it’s the arts after all *…
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Adan’s Gratitudes – “The Shape of Gratitude” – via 2012 dVersepoets Prompt
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): *** Pictured, “Everyday Gratitude Vol 1” Small gratitudes found in the day to day living of daily life. *** “the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics,…
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Review – TV – Blue Bloods Season 09 Episode 20
Disclaimer – I’ve been writing reviews about shows on TV, movies, books, and live performances since I wrote, “A Sudsy Cleansing For the Blues” about the movie, Car Wash back in the mid 70s while at the University of Houston Downtown…so don’t take me too seriously, but definitely count me interested, it’s the arts after…
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38 Years With Sheila – Happy Anniversary! ❤️ 💜 💕
From my wife Sheila today on FB smile — Happy 38th Anniversary Adan! My loving companion on life’s journey. We’ve shared so many experiences, made so many memories in so many places..Vermont, Costa Rica, Paris, Acapulco, Boston, New York, Chicago, all over Texas, to name a few! Wonder what’s around that next curve in the…
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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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Spring Sunset Austin Skyline Butler Park Horizontal – Photography Felipe Adan Lerma
Recently featured @FineArtAmerica artist groups – * “USA Photographers” curated by Judy Vincent (Twitter) @JudyVincent74 * “Images That Excite You” curated by (Twitter) @John_M_Bailey
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Paris : PhotoPoem # 6 : “Monet & Renoir at the Orangerie, Paris”
Originally posted on © Felipe Adan Lerma – All Rights Reserved – Blogging at WordPress Since 2011 :): Paris PhotoPoems Series, #6 “Monet & Renoir at the Orangerie, oParis” – 1st published 11.23.12 – updated 04.19.19 Pictured Left : Slumming in Paris Part Six, With The Children: Movie Museum & Breakfast *** “the intent of this…
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A Little Fiction About the Truth I Felt in Paris 2012 – “Slumming in Paris Part 6”
The recent tragic loss in Paris at Notre Dame, and the heroic efforts that helped mitigate it, has torn at our emotions and reminded me I had sensed and seen the mettle of the French culture and people via the beauty and monuments to their past when my wife and I stayed in the Latin…
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Paris in 5 1/2 Weeks : Around Notre Dame – Day 3, via Felipe Adan Lerma
My wife Sheila and I, even back in the autumn of 2012, were of course aware of then learned much more of the incredible history of Paris and it’s iconic areas inside the old city walls. We learned that a previous church had occupied the same spot on the island on the Seine as Notre…
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Notre Dame Paris – In Gratitude for Being There and Surviving Through So Much
From my cherished Paris collection of images from my wife and mine’s stay late 2012 – https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/felipeadan-lerma.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=642805&page=1 . As always, from its history of progressing human freedom, to surviving World Wars and revolutions, to its sourcing of such a stunning amount of artistic beauty and creativity, Paris endures to inspire and encourage us. Adan Twitter…
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Adan’s Gratitudes – Walking With Birds
This image from Butler Park is as close as I have to my bird adventure on my morning walk today around the old Austin neighborhood of Bouldin. My creaky 68 year old body was just beginning to limber into a gentle loping pace when….
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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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Micro-Macro Unity, Flowers and Landscapes? — Or Am I Just Seeing Things?
“ You know that feeling, when you spot clouds that look like mountains with fog filled valleys continuing up into the sky?”
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PhotoPoem for – Dancing Flower – A Flower’s Soft Arms
*** A Flower’s Soft Arms Aromas of drifting daysshimmered among the sun’s early shifting shadowswarming a garden’s languid floral arms.The blooms’ shallow sculptures carved sunlight intovalleys, brushing eyebrows on ridges –I reached out. Stop – soft shocked. How did nature decide touching such delicate beautywould disturb the very pigments that drewbutterflies and bees and me?…
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PhotoPoem for – Winged Horse in the Sky – Hoof Prints From My Soul
Hoof Prints From My Soul Cloud clumps within my heart – Reappear in paint As hoof prints from my soul – Questions and guesses – Choices – Gathered (often without knowing) through seven decades of living, As naturally as fog settling – feathered – like thread knit loosely ‘tween sky and earthYes, it’s been a…
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