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Olena Kuzmina
@lenkalesoleil.bsky.social
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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
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 1d
A dog had to be put to sleep after suffering an anxiety-induced stroke due to fireworks.

www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...

#entertainment #animalVShuman #petanimals #humanbehaviour
Dog put to sleep after anxiety-induced stroke due to fireworks
Belfast councillor Anthony Flynn has now called for an urgent review of the Fireworks Law after the incident
www.belfastlive.co.uk
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 3d
This short film was made with 2,500 oil paintings.
October 27th is a special day in Mexican folklore: the souls of our pets who loved us come back to visit, so people include their favourite treats or toys on the altars to help guide them home.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RVw...

#petloss
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 5d
2020: Throughout Poland, local authorities are chopping down trees as a “safety” measure. But scientists and activists say it is not only unnecessary but counterproductive, as it exacerbates the problems caused by climate change.
notesfrompoland.com/2020/10/02/p...
2025: it's only getting worse
Poland’s war on trees
notesfrompoland.com
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 7d
#gardening #autumn #wisegardening #wildlife #gardentips
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 7d
…Our brains are not evolved for this world of plenty. “We are cacti in the rain forest.” And like cacti adapted to an arid climate, we are drowning in dopamine.

— Anna Lembke in Dopamine Nation
#bravenewworld #annalembke #dopaminenation
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 11d
#postagestamps #ukraine
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 12d
tomorrow today
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 19d
timeless

#peanuts #CharlesM.Schulz
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 22d
Let's preserve wildlife

#gardening #autumn #wisegardening #wildlife
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 24d
from "Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death"

#impermanence #fleeting #zenpoem
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 25d
#101zenkoan #realprosperity #sengai #zen #buddhism
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 25d
#hunting #animals #africanproverb
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 25d
memories... May 2024, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 26d
Still Life is a 2013 drama film written and directed by Uberto Pasolini. One of the best films I saw.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8rf...
Still Life (Rachel Portman)
YouTube video by TheVojtan
www.youtube.com
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · 27d
by Oleh Lysheha (1949 - 2014)

#poetry #ukrainianpoetry #olehlysheha #sadness
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Oct 3
#ThichNhatHanh #fbmemories
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Oct 2
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Oct 1
Amazing person. Life well lived.
Dame Jane Morris Goodall (April 3, 1934 -- October 1, 2025)
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Sep 27
gardenwithgrandma.com

#leavetheleaves #helpwildlife #gardening
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Sep 27
Dora Carrington (1893 – 1932)
'Cyclamen in a Pot' (1925)

Excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s diary: “… she [Carrington] is such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same time inquisitive, that one can’t help liking her.”

#painting #carrington #loveneverdies
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Sep 24
'No Place Like Home' by Emmanuel Tardy.
In Central America, habitat fragmentation leaves sloths trapped in isolated patches of greenery.

Human overpopulation is a key obstacle to fairly sharing habitat and essential resources with other species.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Sep 23
#hardcorezen #bradwarner #hereandnow
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Sep 19
Timely social advertising in Warsaw, Poland – for public transport users to behave properly. [ www.wtp.waw.pl/newsy/2025/0... ]

It's only a shame that innocent animals are being thereby humiliated (as usual when it goes about "beastly" behaviour of us, humans).

#warsawpoland #animalsVShumans
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Sep 15
Whatever Life Brings by Gary Bunt (1957 – 2025)

Bunt passed away on Friday, July 5, at the age of 68

#naiveart #garybunt #painting #melancholy
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Olena Kuzmina @lenkalesoleil.bsky.social · Sep 12
There are many kinds of fools. Now, will everybody please sit still until they are called upon specifically to rise?

-- Buried Treasure (July 1908)

I love O.Henry since my teenage years (i.e. for a long period of time).
#ohenry
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