Olena Kuzmina
@lenkalesoleil.bsky.social
Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. 💚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
36 hours after the birth of their only daughter, Theodore Roosevelt's wife passed away from undiagnosed Bright's disease. Just hours before, in the same house, his mother, Martha succumbed to Typhoid, aged just 48.
This was his diary entry for that day.
news.lettersofnote.com
#history #diary
This was his diary entry for that day.
news.lettersofnote.com
#history #diary
February 14, 2026 at 12:25 PM
36 hours after the birth of their only daughter, Theodore Roosevelt's wife passed away from undiagnosed Bright's disease. Just hours before, in the same house, his mother, Martha succumbed to Typhoid, aged just 48.
This was his diary entry for that day.
news.lettersofnote.com
#history #diary
This was his diary entry for that day.
news.lettersofnote.com
#history #diary
February 14, 2026 at 12:22 PM
February 14, 2026 at 12:16 PM
My neighbour who has lived a long time often finishes conversations by saying, “ It will be ok.”
It’s simple but I like hearing it. I hope you’re ok wherever you are.
Charlie Mackesy www.facebook.com/Charliemacke...
#charliemackesy #itwillbeok #quote #simple
It’s simple but I like hearing it. I hope you’re ok wherever you are.
Charlie Mackesy www.facebook.com/Charliemacke...
#charliemackesy #itwillbeok #quote #simple
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM
My neighbour who has lived a long time often finishes conversations by saying, “ It will be ok.”
It’s simple but I like hearing it. I hope you’re ok wherever you are.
Charlie Mackesy www.facebook.com/Charliemacke...
#charliemackesy #itwillbeok #quote #simple
It’s simple but I like hearing it. I hope you’re ok wherever you are.
Charlie Mackesy www.facebook.com/Charliemacke...
#charliemackesy #itwillbeok #quote #simple
“Cats, in particular, teach us to be ourselves, whatever the odds. A cat, except through force, will never do anything that goes against its nature. Nothing seduces it away from itself.“
—Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
#cats #alicewalker #truetoyourself
—Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
#cats #alicewalker #truetoyourself
February 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
“Cats, in particular, teach us to be ourselves, whatever the odds. A cat, except through force, will never do anything that goes against its nature. Nothing seduces it away from itself.“
—Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
#cats #alicewalker #truetoyourself
—Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
#cats #alicewalker #truetoyourself
The Day After (1894-95) by Edvard Munch
When Jens Thiis bought this picture for the National Gallery, Oslo, in 1909 the public was shocked; one critic denounced it as portraying a drunken prostitute.
#painting #edvardmunch #drinkresponsibly #dayafter
When Jens Thiis bought this picture for the National Gallery, Oslo, in 1909 the public was shocked; one critic denounced it as portraying a drunken prostitute.
#painting #edvardmunch #drinkresponsibly #dayafter
February 8, 2026 at 8:51 AM
The Day After (1894-95) by Edvard Munch
When Jens Thiis bought this picture for the National Gallery, Oslo, in 1909 the public was shocked; one critic denounced it as portraying a drunken prostitute.
#painting #edvardmunch #drinkresponsibly #dayafter
When Jens Thiis bought this picture for the National Gallery, Oslo, in 1909 the public was shocked; one critic denounced it as portraying a drunken prostitute.
#painting #edvardmunch #drinkresponsibly #dayafter
Winter Window (1937)
by Robert Strong Woodward (11 May 1885 -- 26 Jun 1957)
In 1906 as a result of an accident he was paralyzed from his sternum down.
see Woodward's "window"-themed gallery www.robertstrongwoodward.com/Gallery/galW...
#painting #landscape #robertwoodward
by Robert Strong Woodward (11 May 1885 -- 26 Jun 1957)
In 1906 as a result of an accident he was paralyzed from his sternum down.
see Woodward's "window"-themed gallery www.robertstrongwoodward.com/Gallery/galW...
#painting #landscape #robertwoodward
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Winter Window (1937)
by Robert Strong Woodward (11 May 1885 -- 26 Jun 1957)
In 1906 as a result of an accident he was paralyzed from his sternum down.
see Woodward's "window"-themed gallery www.robertstrongwoodward.com/Gallery/galW...
#painting #landscape #robertwoodward
by Robert Strong Woodward (11 May 1885 -- 26 Jun 1957)
In 1906 as a result of an accident he was paralyzed from his sternum down.
see Woodward's "window"-themed gallery www.robertstrongwoodward.com/Gallery/galW...
#painting #landscape #robertwoodward
Kasugano, Nara (1961)
by Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991)
#animalsinart #snow #WoodblockPrint #ShiroKasamatsu #japan #japanart
by Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991)
#animalsinart #snow #WoodblockPrint #ShiroKasamatsu #japan #japanart
January 31, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Kasugano, Nara (1961)
by Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991)
#animalsinart #snow #WoodblockPrint #ShiroKasamatsu #japan #japanart
by Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991)
#animalsinart #snow #WoodblockPrint #ShiroKasamatsu #japan #japanart
Exposure to frigid temperatures or freezing cold water are the most common causes of hypothermia.
#frosts #survivingwinter #homeless #animals
#frosts #survivingwinter #homeless #animals
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Exposure to frigid temperatures or freezing cold water are the most common causes of hypothermia.
#frosts #survivingwinter #homeless #animals
#frosts #survivingwinter #homeless #animals
January 29, 2026 at 6:42 PM
"Already a man of fifty, I should be able to maintain this self-imposed discipline..."
-- Matsuo Basho in Narrow Road to the Deep North
www.penguin.co.uk/books/34841/...
#matsuobasho #discipline #solitude #quote
-- Matsuo Basho in Narrow Road to the Deep North
www.penguin.co.uk/books/34841/...
#matsuobasho #discipline #solitude #quote
January 24, 2026 at 3:11 PM
"Already a man of fifty, I should be able to maintain this self-imposed discipline..."
-- Matsuo Basho in Narrow Road to the Deep North
www.penguin.co.uk/books/34841/...
#matsuobasho #discipline #solitude #quote
-- Matsuo Basho in Narrow Road to the Deep North
www.penguin.co.uk/books/34841/...
#matsuobasho #discipline #solitude #quote
...The door that someone closed
The chair on which someone sat
The cat that someone petted
...
The river in which someone jumped
The hospital where someone died.
Jacques Prévert (1900–77),
с. 1950
Translated by Terry Lajtha
#sadness #poetry #jacquesprevert #solitude
The chair on which someone sat
The cat that someone petted
...
The river in which someone jumped
The hospital where someone died.
Jacques Prévert (1900–77),
с. 1950
Translated by Terry Lajtha
#sadness #poetry #jacquesprevert #solitude
January 21, 2026 at 12:38 PM
...The door that someone closed
The chair on which someone sat
The cat that someone petted
...
The river in which someone jumped
The hospital where someone died.
Jacques Prévert (1900–77),
с. 1950
Translated by Terry Lajtha
#sadness #poetry #jacquesprevert #solitude
The chair on which someone sat
The cat that someone petted
...
The river in which someone jumped
The hospital where someone died.
Jacques Prévert (1900–77),
с. 1950
Translated by Terry Lajtha
#sadness #poetry #jacquesprevert #solitude
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver
#letitgo #nonattachment #poetry #maryoliver
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver
#letitgo #nonattachment #poetry #maryoliver
January 14, 2026 at 2:17 PM
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver
#letitgo #nonattachment #poetry #maryoliver
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver
#letitgo #nonattachment #poetry #maryoliver
January 10, 2026 at 6:03 PM
January 8, 2026 at 12:49 PM
There are central organizing principles to nature, and one of those is that everything that is born eventually dies.
Focus on just this moment.
open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
#petloss #petillness #hereandnow #impermanence #grief #loss #selhelp
Focus on just this moment.
open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
#petloss #petillness #hereandnow #impermanence #grief #loss #selhelp
When Your Pet is Critically Ill: Seven Ways to Navigate Uncertainty
Focus on just this moment. And this one. And this.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:21 PM
There are central organizing principles to nature, and one of those is that everything that is born eventually dies.
Focus on just this moment.
open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
#petloss #petillness #hereandnow #impermanence #grief #loss #selhelp
Focus on just this moment.
open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
#petloss #petillness #hereandnow #impermanence #grief #loss #selhelp
January 1, 2026 at 1:12 PM
December 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Fireworks are dangerous and terrifying for ALL animals. Animals hear higher frequencies, making firework sounds painfully loud, and the resulting panic can lead them into traffic or harm themselves trying to escape.
www.animal-ethics.org/how-firework...
#fireworks #cruelentertainment
www.animal-ethics.org/how-firework...
#fireworks #cruelentertainment
December 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Fireworks are dangerous and terrifying for ALL animals. Animals hear higher frequencies, making firework sounds painfully loud, and the resulting panic can lead them into traffic or harm themselves trying to escape.
www.animal-ethics.org/how-firework...
#fireworks #cruelentertainment
www.animal-ethics.org/how-firework...
#fireworks #cruelentertainment
December 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Lady Violet: Makes me smile, the way every year we drink to the future, - whatever it may bring.
Isobel Crawley: Well, what else could we drink to? We're going forward to the future, not back into the past.
Lady Violet: If only we had the choice!
Downton Abbey
#ifonly #newyear #downtonabbey
Isobel Crawley: Well, what else could we drink to? We're going forward to the future, not back into the past.
Lady Violet: If only we had the choice!
Downton Abbey
#ifonly #newyear #downtonabbey
December 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Lady Violet: Makes me smile, the way every year we drink to the future, - whatever it may bring.
Isobel Crawley: Well, what else could we drink to? We're going forward to the future, not back into the past.
Lady Violet: If only we had the choice!
Downton Abbey
#ifonly #newyear #downtonabbey
Isobel Crawley: Well, what else could we drink to? We're going forward to the future, not back into the past.
Lady Violet: If only we had the choice!
Downton Abbey
#ifonly #newyear #downtonabbey
The NYTimes cartoon -- I posted it 10 years ago on FB.
Now it's getting normal. 'Normal'.
#newyeartree #cartoon #climatechange
Now it's getting normal. 'Normal'.
#newyeartree #cartoon #climatechange
December 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The NYTimes cartoon -- I posted it 10 years ago on FB.
Now it's getting normal. 'Normal'.
#newyeartree #cartoon #climatechange
Now it's getting normal. 'Normal'.
#newyeartree #cartoon #climatechange
December 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM