Shon-Lueiss
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Shon-Lueiss
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Poetry, art, and idealistic musings. 🌹✒️🇵🇷✊🏾
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Let’s talk about art, the pursuit of meaning, and #AI.

Look for it tomorrow on The Caona Thread.
May 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
May 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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May 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Color first, then minimal line.
This is my favorite drawing in my sketchbook from the past workshop week. Why: bold, loose, colorful shape, I stopped in time, no fussing. It took me less than 15 minutes. And it represents a Lisbon Quiosque, iconic for the city.
#CaptureTheLisbonWow2025
April 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The world is on fire. What’s a person to do?

Check out The Caona Thread for answers.

#WritingCommunity #Booksky #Artsky #Poetry #Haiku #InkMine #Poem #vss365 #Art #ArtHistory
April 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
When the giant sleeps
a watchful eye stays open
fearless but ready

#Caturday #Cat #Mainecoon #QuietMoments #Portrait #Animal #Haiku #Poetry #vss365 #InkMine #HaikuFeels
April 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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White Heron in the Rain (Uchu sagi), by Kawanabe Kyosai, around 1870s. A woodblock print of the Ultimate Peak of Life on Earth. #HeronModesty
April 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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There's something now that no one knows,

That never seems to mind me —

Where is it that my shadow goes

That often walks behind me?

Madison Cawein, The Little Boy and His Shadow

#WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday
April 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
For my time spent here
I give thanks to the blossoms
and bid you farewell

“The Day of Departure” by Basho.

#haiku #poetry #WritingCommunity #SpringPoetry
#Sakura #CherryBlossom #Nature #PNW
April 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Delicate blossom
resilient through the storm
#life defined by death

#vss365 #HaikuFeels #InkMine #poetry #haiku #WritingCommunity #Death #Spring #senryu
April 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Show me what democracy looks like.

#HandsOff #Resist #PNW #Democracy
April 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The world is falling apart.

The sky is clear.

Students are being arrested for their ideas.

The cherry blossoms are blooming.

Protesters are being treated like terrorists.

The boy wants a branch to take home.

#CherryBlossoms #QuietMoments #NaturePhotography #Nature #PNW #Paradigm
April 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I don’t do self-care. I don’t do goblin mode. I take #MentalHealth days, but not enough of them.

Bad days are best healed with music, a spot amongst the trees, and a little green for perspective.

This is a start. Small, but healing.

#RobertGlasper #BlackRadio #Jazz #HipHop #Blacksky 🎵

March 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
When the dam is closed the pool at the bottom goes still. A great spot to swim, if you could climb down the side without tumbling.

I couldn’t really swim, so I kept to the shallow end, unaware of the holes beneath the surface until I sank into one.

#NaturePhotography #Waterfall #PNW #QuietMoments
March 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
March 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Does the statue maker consider how their creation will look in the rain?

Do they ask how many tears the statue will shed? How a quiet smile in summer can change when the autumn rain falls, and the statue watches the trees wither, smile wide and wet with tears?

#QuietMoments #StreetPhotography
March 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How anyone can ever lack inspiration in a world brimming with such beauty is far beyond me.

#Nature #NaturePhotography #Moodysky #Sunset #QuietMoments
March 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Gratitude doesn’t come from lists or softly spoken TikToks. All you need is a moment of silence where nothing is calling, screaming, or vying for your attention.

A moment to breathe. A moment to see.

And there you go—gratitude.

#QuietMoments #PNW #CherryBlossom #Sakura #Cat #Caturday #Moodysky
March 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The depression along the creek is where I fell in. Wandered too close, lost my footing, and ended up rolling down into the shallow creek. Right through the thin ice on top. It was a long, cold walk back.

#PNW #NaturePhotography #Nature #Snow #Winter #Moodysky #QuietMoments
March 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Feeling small against a big, beautiful world.

That’s how I define “awe.”

It’s the feeling I got standing in front a Caravaggio for the first time. An almost religious experience, and one that left me better for it.

#NaturePhotography #Outdoor #PNW #HikeNW #Photography #Candid #QuietMoments
March 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Nothing deep or poetic here.

Just missing British Columbia and hoping the angry 🍊doesn’t leave Americans completely unwelcome.

#BC #Canada #NightPhotography #Victoria #PNW
March 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Poor scheduling meant my son got to sit quietly during my dentist appointment. He was patient, thankfully.

I felt as if a reward was in order.

We stopped by the river on the way home and greeted the geese.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #Nature #PNW #MoodySky #QuietMoments #Photography
March 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
An omen, perhaps.

Or at least conspiracy to murder.

#Birds #Nature #BirdPhotography #QuietMoments #PNW
March 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM