Relinquishing Each Wish

~•Wishes•~ Photograph by my beautiful sister and best friend Laura Lujan

They blow to and from
carried by her breeze.
Hearts gush wish after
wish relinquishing each
to a forbidden sky.

~~» Felicia Lujan
~~» 5.18.2013

~Fly With Me~

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~Yesterday a Ladybug flew
into my car window and
landed on my hand.~
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Come soar above
the emptiness with a
predator of the sky.

Fly with me on scarlet
wings and feel freedom
that you can’t buy.

Soar one time near
lady luck to fill voids
with steady drift.

Take flight and spread
your heavy wings. Just
leave without a tiff.

Felicia Lujan
5.7.2013

LADY FELICIA LUJAN

Reblogged from LIFE AND LOVE:

If I ever fell in love with a woman, she may be lovely and Blu! Thanks for the crown my lady... ~~~~Felish

Ending the Day in Heaven

~Ending the day in heaven (oh, I mean the bathtub) surrounded by my beloved candles and bubbles.~

Today was a good day. I got a lot of things done. Hopping from one thing to the next I stayed busy all day.

I started by completing about half of a newspaper preservation project I’m working on. It took a few hours to photograph and encapsulate the pages of a newspaper that is over 100 years old. I also completed research associated with the Battle of Puebla and Cinco de Mayo. Maybe if I’m lucky, I will finish the entire project by tomorrow night for my friend and her family.

Now that it is starting to warm up it’s nice. It was the first day I was able to hang clothes out on the line. Clothes are softer straight out of the dryer, but it wastes so much energy. During the winter I wait patiently for the chance to use my clothes line.

After that I moved from: planting sunflowers in just the right spot; to filling up a swimming pool equip with toys for D; to listening to Tank while getting my tan on; to grilling it up; to cleaning up; and then to washing dishes. See? No liquor on Friday night and eating right obviously payed off today!

I ended the night in sheer heaven (oh, I mean the bathtub) surrounded by my beloved candles. I don’t use the tub often because I feel bad about wasting water. Once in a while it is a glorious treat! It was great to close the day listening to my chimes in the wind while emerged in luxurious bubbles.

Time for some sweet dreams.

Avoid a Plummet Into the Fiery Depths of Carb Hell

•A Light Breakfast on Saturday Morning•

I have felt so much better since I moved from eating a cheat meal on Saturday mornings. After eating healthy all week, sometimes a Friday cheat night just makes me sick. Last night I made some delish spaghetti, but I just felt horrible after all the carbs (white bread and pasta) and olive oil. Opting for a lighter choice leaves me with energy and feeling good.

My new favorite food is pear paste. Rutherford & Meyer’s makes delicious New Zealand made paste. I have been topping multi-seed, gluten free brown rice thins (with sesame seeds, poppy seeds, and flax seeds) by Back to Nature with a small piece of Dofino creamy Havarti cheese and a slice of paste.

It took a while for me to realize that after doing good all week it is just silly to eat a cheat meal Friday night and Saturday morning. From now on it will be a one night party, and I will choose food that doesn’t make me ill.

If you get a chance, try this light breakfast with some coffee. I’m sure you will appreciate the taste and keeping energy that doesn’t plummet into the fiery depths of carb hell.

•Rutherford & Meyer’s New Zealand Made Pear Paste•

Taste Fire

With your mouth…
~~>feel flames.
With your heart…
~~>see destiny.
With your eyes…
~~>taste fire.

Felicia Lujan
5.2.2013

Guts, Heart and Glory: Get Serious

Good workouts rock! Now that’s a workout. When you go to the gym, either get serious, get out of the way, or go home! Those new Planet Fitness commercials make me laugh! Why do people who are in shape get called lugs on this planet? Oh yeah– I forgot- because Planet Fitness is “not a gym!” Hum? How can we get in shape there in that case? I have been in the gym for years and have yet to meet a man or woman fitting the image in those stereotypical commercials. People with no guts will have no glory and weak people find comfort in calling strong people lugs. It takes guts, heart and brains to train- so remember that! Smart equals sexy! Bring it!!

Sunny Breakfast

•Aloha Fruity Salad Rolls•

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Laughter is the sun that
drives winter from the
human face.
………..Victor Hugo

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There is nothing like breakfast in the sun. The rays of light are so invigorating. Coffee and my favorite vegetarian sushi rolls from Whole Foods go perfect together. Yum! When I eat right, I can’t help but want to throw on my killa purps and exercise. I’m glad the weekend weather will be nice.

Sunday Stairway

Stairway to Heaven @ the Santa Fe High Football Field

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The vision must be
followed by the venture.
It is not enough to stare
up the steps~ we must
step up the stairs.

•••~Vance Havner
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Now that’s a workout!! Seriously…running up these stairs in the Sunday heat must be one of the hardest beatings my lungs can take (not to mention my body). Legs shakin’ ~n~ what not! I was able to run up the stairway today with a bit of floor exercises in between. There are 50 steps up and 50 steps down. I was able to complete 800 steps, but I should be able to do more than that?? Maybe next time? I just keep visualizing those summer outfits. It’s also good to boost my mental clarity. Cheers! I’m done for the day and headed to Whole Foods.

Cat and Dog?

Cat and Dog?

I have been working really hard all day and here lay cat and dog? Must be nice!! After cleaning up my bedroom and my “office,” I set up a new bed for the little critters. Me and D washed my ‘runner and when we came inside, these two are snug as bugs! Ahhhh~ what a great life they have ha? Time for a cobb salad from *The Ranch House*(yum).

The Anaconda Fight Club Rocks

I thought it was super cool that the Anaconda Fight Club in Barcelona picked up one of my digital composites on their Facebook page ~print screen courtesy of Brit ~. How awesome! Now my work has touched Spain!  Very cool… This fight club also looks sweet. Nothin’ like some Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu right? Look at my name under “foto.” Here is a link to my original post Māori: Origins of a Warrior. It was a research piece and a poem! A big thanks to the Anaconda Fight Club!!

Happy Friday Fighters!

Thief of Breath

Only a bandit would
heist my essence and
bottle it up tight.

I’ve lost the keystone
in a field of weeds and
didn’t even fight.

Invade my rib cage
unwilling thief~ turn
breath to thickened mist.

Trespass and take
all that you will in
an imaginary tryst.

It’s criminal to partake
in thievery for I can’t live
without my breath.

The underpinnings of
tainted dreams are
sure to be my death.

by Felicia Lujan
3.29.2013

It's All on You

Reblogged from Frontdive Fitness:

Great training video of an extremely ripped gentleman getting it done and putting in the work in the gym.  I love the audio the most in this video.  It is about making sacrifices, being disciplined, making smart choices, not cheating and knowing when to say no.  We all have it in us to be in the greatest shape of our lives but it is totally up to you.

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Awesome post from Frontdive Fitness!!! ~~~F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When It Hurts…

“When it hurts, push harder!”
—-Felicia Lujan

(by “it” I mean mind,
body and soul)

Felicia’s Nike golden shoes at rest on the Santa Fe High Track

Monsters

My new web site theme features the infamous 1781 oil painting by Henry Fuseli titled “The Nightmare.” The painting was first displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, but it is now housed with the Detroit Institute of Arts. This painting may be one of my favorite works of symbolic art. Many scholars of the mind believe that the “monster” is in fact the woman’s unconscious. I think it can represent the power of our dreams, addiction, being powerless, or that which haunts or enchants us. It can mean many things depending on who interprets the piece, and maybe even their mood. The picture has been hanging in my office for many years. Fuseli was indeed ingenious with regard to symbolic imagery.