Olena Kuzmina
@lenkalesoleil.bsky.social
Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Lived in Kyiv, Dubai, Tbilisi, Chisinau, Warsaw, Bucharest...
💚nature, poetry, Buddhism, landscape painting, haiku, trees 🌲🌳, 🐾 cats, rainy summer & solitude ☘️
💚nature, poetry, Buddhism, landscape painting, haiku, trees 🌲🌳, 🐾 cats, rainy summer & solitude ☘️
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Olena Kuzmina
@lenkalesoleil.bsky.social
· May 27
To anyone who has spent time with an animal, the notion that they have no interior lives seems so counterintuitive, such an obdurate denial of the empathetically self-evident, as to be almost psychotic.
archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
#timkreider #companionanimal #petloss
archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....
#timkreider #companionanimal #petloss
"Everyone struggles with fear of death. Being death positive is about our willingness to better understand those fears and how they manifest in ourselves, others, and the world around us."
www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/fe...
#dying #death #psychology #mementomori
www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/fe...
#dying #death #psychology #mementomori
September 17, 2026 at 7:52 AM
"Everyone struggles with fear of death. Being death positive is about our willingness to better understand those fears and how they manifest in ourselves, others, and the world around us."
www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/fe...
#dying #death #psychology #mementomori
www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/fe...
#dying #death #psychology #mementomori
I know Ruslan personally. He is brave & devoted animal rescuer. Despite being feverish & wounded himself, he managed to apply a tourniquet to a French reporter and drove to the hospital in a wrecked vehicle, with almost no visibility.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
#ukraine #animalrescue #war
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
#ukraine #animalrescue #war
September 16, 2026 at 10:35 AM
I know Ruslan personally. He is brave & devoted animal rescuer. Despite being feverish & wounded himself, he managed to apply a tourniquet to a French reporter and drove to the hospital in a wrecked vehicle, with almost no visibility.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
#ukraine #animalrescue #war
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
#ukraine #animalrescue #war
D.H.Lawrence and the Environment; the Poetics of Honesty and Despair -- Leo Salter
journals.openedition.org/lawrence/155...
#aheadoftime #poetry #dhlawrence #animalsvshumans
journals.openedition.org/lawrence/155...
#aheadoftime #poetry #dhlawrence #animalsvshumans
September 14, 2026 at 11:37 AM
D.H.Lawrence and the Environment; the Poetics of Honesty and Despair -- Leo Salter
journals.openedition.org/lawrence/155...
#aheadoftime #poetry #dhlawrence #animalsvshumans
journals.openedition.org/lawrence/155...
#aheadoftime #poetry #dhlawrence #animalsvshumans
D.H.Lawrence and the Environment; the Poetics of Honesty and Despair -- Leo Salter
journals.openedition.org/lawrence/155...
#aheadoftime #poetry #dhlawrence
journals.openedition.org/lawrence/155...
#aheadoftime #poetry #dhlawrence
September 14, 2026 at 11:35 AM
D.H.Lawrence and the Environment; the Poetics of Honesty and Despair -- Leo Salter
journals.openedition.org/lawrence/155...
#aheadoftime #poetry #dhlawrence
journals.openedition.org/lawrence/155...
#aheadoftime #poetry #dhlawrence
among crazier & freakier news of our modern world -- "art of silence" is my way of escapism...
'Le Canal au clair de lune, Gisors,' (1901) -- by Henri Le Sidaner (7 August 1862 – 14 July 1939)
#painting #intimism #henrilesidaner #escapism
'Le Canal au clair de lune, Gisors,' (1901) -- by Henri Le Sidaner (7 August 1862 – 14 July 1939)
#painting #intimism #henrilesidaner #escapism
September 12, 2026 at 10:43 AM
among crazier & freakier news of our modern world -- "art of silence" is my way of escapism...
'Le Canal au clair de lune, Gisors,' (1901) -- by Henri Le Sidaner (7 August 1862 – 14 July 1939)
#painting #intimism #henrilesidaner #escapism
'Le Canal au clair de lune, Gisors,' (1901) -- by Henri Le Sidaner (7 August 1862 – 14 July 1939)
#painting #intimism #henrilesidaner #escapism
The sidewalk was blockaded with sightseers who had gathered to stare at sightseers, justifying the natural law that every creature on earth is preyed upon by some other creature.
O. Henry, Sisters of the Golden Circle (1906)
One of my fave writers.
#ohenry #inmemory #alltoohuman
O. Henry, Sisters of the Golden Circle (1906)
One of my fave writers.
#ohenry #inmemory #alltoohuman
September 11, 2026 at 7:40 AM
The sidewalk was blockaded with sightseers who had gathered to stare at sightseers, justifying the natural law that every creature on earth is preyed upon by some other creature.
O. Henry, Sisters of the Golden Circle (1906)
One of my fave writers.
#ohenry #inmemory #alltoohuman
O. Henry, Sisters of the Golden Circle (1906)
One of my fave writers.
#ohenry #inmemory #alltoohuman
'Japanese Lanterns.' (1930)
By Eric Slater (1896 -- 1963), colour woodcut artist.
#painters #seasonal #colourwoodcut
By Eric Slater (1896 -- 1963), colour woodcut artist.
#painters #seasonal #colourwoodcut
September 8, 2026 at 7:47 AM
'Japanese Lanterns.' (1930)
By Eric Slater (1896 -- 1963), colour woodcut artist.
#painters #seasonal #colourwoodcut
By Eric Slater (1896 -- 1963), colour woodcut artist.
#painters #seasonal #colourwoodcut
September 8, 2026 at 7:28 AM
September 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Banksy's world.
Blending irony, provocation and social commentary, this installation challenges us to question the labels we accept and the messages we follow without a second thought.
museubanksy.bymeoblueticket.pt
#banksy #lisboa #social #think
Blending irony, provocation and social commentary, this installation challenges us to question the labels we accept and the messages we follow without a second thought.
museubanksy.bymeoblueticket.pt
#banksy #lisboa #social #think
September 3, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Banksy's world.
Blending irony, provocation and social commentary, this installation challenges us to question the labels we accept and the messages we follow without a second thought.
museubanksy.bymeoblueticket.pt
#banksy #lisboa #social #think
Blending irony, provocation and social commentary, this installation challenges us to question the labels we accept and the messages we follow without a second thought.
museubanksy.bymeoblueticket.pt
#banksy #lisboa #social #think
There's a sickness in people that stops them seeing the truth. Anything you see with love is the truth.
-- The Secret Scripture (2016) www.imdb.com/title/tt3344...
-- The Secret Scripture (2016) www.imdb.com/title/tt3344...
www.imdb.com
August 29, 2026 at 8:11 PM
There's a sickness in people that stops them seeing the truth. Anything you see with love is the truth.
-- The Secret Scripture (2016) www.imdb.com/title/tt3344...
-- The Secret Scripture (2016) www.imdb.com/title/tt3344...
Waiting for food. Waiting for a door to open. Waiting for something to change. Waiting within the same boundaries, day after day.
Animals deserve more than a life spent waiting. They deserve agency. Choice. Freedom.
#borntobefree #cruelentertainment #nocages #animals
Animals deserve more than a life spent waiting. They deserve agency. Choice. Freedom.
#borntobefree #cruelentertainment #nocages #animals
August 28, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Waiting for food. Waiting for a door to open. Waiting for something to change. Waiting within the same boundaries, day after day.
Animals deserve more than a life spent waiting. They deserve agency. Choice. Freedom.
#borntobefree #cruelentertainment #nocages #animals
Animals deserve more than a life spent waiting. They deserve agency. Choice. Freedom.
#borntobefree #cruelentertainment #nocages #animals
August 28, 2026 at 9:34 AM
how it could be possible to make this song sadder, i don't understand, yet she has....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FktN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FktN...
Madeleine Peyroux - Between The Bars
YouTube video by RobWilloughby
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2026 at 6:56 PM
how it could be possible to make this song sadder, i don't understand, yet she has....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FktN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FktN...
Misophonia is a newly-recognised medical condition where the sufferer may develop a hypersensitivity to everyday noises.
Early household environments can shape triggers, as family members are frequently the first and most common sources of trigger sounds.
#misophonia #misanthropic
Early household environments can shape triggers, as family members are frequently the first and most common sources of trigger sounds.
#misophonia #misanthropic
August 27, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Misophonia is a newly-recognised medical condition where the sufferer may develop a hypersensitivity to everyday noises.
Early household environments can shape triggers, as family members are frequently the first and most common sources of trigger sounds.
#misophonia #misanthropic
Early household environments can shape triggers, as family members are frequently the first and most common sources of trigger sounds.
#misophonia #misanthropic
August 27, 2026 at 10:43 AM
"To write the story of a modern man who was cured of painful contradictions by long and unceasing contemplation of the landscape."
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951
#quotes #albertcamus
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951
#quotes #albertcamus
August 26, 2026 at 8:59 AM
"To write the story of a modern man who was cured of painful contradictions by long and unceasing contemplation of the landscape."
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951
#quotes #albertcamus
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951
#quotes #albertcamus
...what is fleeting
August 20, 2026 at 7:19 PM
...what is fleeting
August 20, 2026 at 6:21 PM
August 15, 2026 at 11:08 AM
timeless ;)
by Miroslav Sekulic-Struja, a Croatian self-taught painter, illustrator, and novelist
#cartoon #animalwisdom #MiroslavSekulic-Struja
by Miroslav Sekulic-Struja, a Croatian self-taught painter, illustrator, and novelist
#cartoon #animalwisdom #MiroslavSekulic-Struja
August 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
timeless ;)
by Miroslav Sekulic-Struja, a Croatian self-taught painter, illustrator, and novelist
#cartoon #animalwisdom #MiroslavSekulic-Struja
by Miroslav Sekulic-Struja, a Croatian self-taught painter, illustrator, and novelist
#cartoon #animalwisdom #MiroslavSekulic-Struja
by Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)
An old man leaning on a gate
Over a London mews -- to contemplate --
Is it the sky above -- the stones below?
Is it remembrance of the years gone by,
Or thinking forward to futurity
That holds him so?...
via firstknownwhenlost.blogspot.com
#poetry #oldage
An old man leaning on a gate
Over a London mews -- to contemplate --
Is it the sky above -- the stones below?
Is it remembrance of the years gone by,
Or thinking forward to futurity
That holds him so?...
via firstknownwhenlost.blogspot.com
#poetry #oldage
August 11, 2026 at 8:12 AM
by Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)
An old man leaning on a gate
Over a London mews -- to contemplate --
Is it the sky above -- the stones below?
Is it remembrance of the years gone by,
Or thinking forward to futurity
That holds him so?...
via firstknownwhenlost.blogspot.com
#poetry #oldage
An old man leaning on a gate
Over a London mews -- to contemplate --
Is it the sky above -- the stones below?
Is it remembrance of the years gone by,
Or thinking forward to futurity
That holds him so?...
via firstknownwhenlost.blogspot.com
#poetry #oldage
“I should like to write about 75–100 new poems, all rather better than anything I’ve ever done before, and dealing with such subjects as Life, Death, Time, Love, and Scenery in such a manner as would render further attention to them by other poets superfluous.”
Philip Larkin to Patsy Strang (1953)
Philip Larkin to Patsy Strang (1953)
August 11, 2026 at 7:51 AM
“I should like to write about 75–100 new poems, all rather better than anything I’ve ever done before, and dealing with such subjects as Life, Death, Time, Love, and Scenery in such a manner as would render further attention to them by other poets superfluous.”
Philip Larkin to Patsy Strang (1953)
Philip Larkin to Patsy Strang (1953)
August 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
To speak well of animals and look sceptically at children can’t please the public very much. It might even irritate it slightly. Not that I have anything against children. But the Kitsch of childhood annoys me. (1980)
literaryreview.co.uk/interview-mi...
#milankundera #childfree #kitsch
literaryreview.co.uk/interview-mi...
#milankundera #childfree #kitsch
August 4, 2026 at 12:25 PM
To speak well of animals and look sceptically at children can’t please the public very much. It might even irritate it slightly. Not that I have anything against children. But the Kitsch of childhood annoys me. (1980)
literaryreview.co.uk/interview-mi...
#milankundera #childfree #kitsch
literaryreview.co.uk/interview-mi...
#milankundera #childfree #kitsch