Laura Christine Ó Donnell
@lcodonnell.bsky.social
Earth + Democracy defender, PhD psychology, physio. Healer, researcher, writer, poet, editor, educator. Truth, justice, compassion—not just for humans. Consciousness, integrative knowing. Huge fan of education, nature, sciences, arts. Global citizen.
Pinned
No to inhumanity, despots. 💙
Letters to a Young Poet
from The Eighth Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
1/
from The Eighth Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
1/
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Letters to a Young Poet
from The Eighth Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
1/
from The Eighth Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
1/
Letters to a Young Poet
from The Eighth Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
"I want to talk to you again for a while, dear [...]
although there is almost nothing I can say that will help you, and I can hardly find one useful word.
1/
from The Eighth Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
"I want to talk to you again for a while, dear [...]
although there is almost nothing I can say that will help you, and I can hardly find one useful word.
1/
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Letters to a Young Poet
from The Eighth Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
"I want to talk to you again for a while, dear [...]
although there is almost nothing I can say that will help you, and I can hardly find one useful word.
1/
from The Eighth Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
"I want to talk to you again for a while, dear [...]
although there is almost nothing I can say that will help you, and I can hardly find one useful word.
1/
Fire's Reflection ✨🔥❤️🔥
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Translated by A. Poulin 🧵
"Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection
on some piece of gleaming furniture
that the child remembers so much later
like a revelation.
1/
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Translated by A. Poulin 🧵
"Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection
on some piece of gleaming furniture
that the child remembers so much later
like a revelation.
1/
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Fire's Reflection ✨🔥❤️🔥
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Translated by A. Poulin 🧵
"Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection
on some piece of gleaming furniture
that the child remembers so much later
like a revelation.
1/
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Translated by A. Poulin 🧵
"Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection
on some piece of gleaming furniture
that the child remembers so much later
like a revelation.
1/
Fire 🔥
Divine presence, transformation, purification, destruction, renewal, inspiration, illumination, guidance, enlightenment.
A living, divine being. Originating in the invisible, and intimately weaved with Sun, Stars, and Primordial Light. Guideposts; and at Earth's center and ours—our hearts.
Divine presence, transformation, purification, destruction, renewal, inspiration, illumination, guidance, enlightenment.
A living, divine being. Originating in the invisible, and intimately weaved with Sun, Stars, and Primordial Light. Guideposts; and at Earth's center and ours—our hearts.
Fireplace 4k, Relaxing Music, Calming Music, Guitar, Fireplace Sounds - 0016
YouTube video by Relaxing Music Films
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Fire 🔥
Divine presence, transformation, purification, destruction, renewal, inspiration, illumination, guidance, enlightenment.
A living, divine being. Originating in the invisible, and intimately weaved with Sun, Stars, and Primordial Light. Guideposts; and at Earth's center and ours—our hearts.
Divine presence, transformation, purification, destruction, renewal, inspiration, illumination, guidance, enlightenment.
A living, divine being. Originating in the invisible, and intimately weaved with Sun, Stars, and Primordial Light. Guideposts; and at Earth's center and ours—our hearts.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Reposted by Laura Christine Ó Donnell
Of course, we are a little biased, but we think our bookshop looks cosier than a penguin in a thermal sleeping bag.
A little literary oasis of words and light, in the long winter night.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield
A little literary oasis of words and light, in the long winter night.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield
December 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Of course, we are a little biased, but we think our bookshop looks cosier than a penguin in a thermal sleeping bag.
A little literary oasis of words and light, in the long winter night.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield
A little literary oasis of words and light, in the long winter night.
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield
Reposted by Laura Christine Ó Donnell
« Les pensées qu'on a
dans l'obscurité
ne sont pas les mêmes
que celles qu'on a
dans la lumière. »
Julien Green, "Moïra".
dans l'obscurité
ne sont pas les mêmes
que celles qu'on a
dans la lumière. »
Julien Green, "Moïra".
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
« Les pensées qu'on a
dans l'obscurité
ne sont pas les mêmes
que celles qu'on a
dans la lumière. »
Julien Green, "Moïra".
dans l'obscurité
ne sont pas les mêmes
que celles qu'on a
dans la lumière. »
Julien Green, "Moïra".
Reposted by Laura Christine Ó Donnell
Bold colorists like Matisse and Derain drew inspiration from Monet’s fearless palettes. 🎨🔥
December 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Bold colorists like Matisse and Derain drew inspiration from Monet’s fearless palettes. 🎨🔥
Reposted by Laura Christine Ó Donnell
Claude Monet (1840–1926)
The Magpie, 1869.
The Magpie, 1869.
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Claude Monet (1840–1926)
The Magpie, 1869.
The Magpie, 1869.
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Sunlit fungi on a tree trunk. Nature never ceases to astonish me
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Sunlit fungi on a tree trunk. Nature never ceases to astonish me
Reposted by Laura Christine Ó Donnell
내 슬픈 전설의 22페이지 (Page 22 in My Sorrowful Legend) by 천경자 / Chun Kyung-ja (South Korean) - Pigment on mulberry paper / 1977 - Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea #WomenInArt #ChunKyungja #천경자 #Kyungja #KoreanArt #artText #art #AsianArt #KoreanArtist #AsianArt #서울시립미술관 #SeoulMuseumOfArt #SeMA #SelfPortrait
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 AM
내 슬픈 전설의 22페이지 (Page 22 in My Sorrowful Legend) by 천경자 / Chun Kyung-ja (South Korean) - Pigment on mulberry paper / 1977 - Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea #WomenInArt #ChunKyungja #천경자 #Kyungja #KoreanArt #artText #art #AsianArt #KoreanArtist #AsianArt #서울시립미술관 #SeoulMuseumOfArt #SeMA #SelfPortrait
Reposted by Laura Christine Ó Donnell
Reposted by Laura Christine Ó Donnell
Writer and illustrator Jean de Brunhoff was born 9 December 1899.
December 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Writer and illustrator Jean de Brunhoff was born 9 December 1899.
Reposted by Laura Christine Ó Donnell
A sudden burst of winter sunlight through our front window, illuminating the House That Jack Painted.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A sudden burst of winter sunlight through our front window, illuminating the House That Jack Painted.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg
John Lithgow performing the lessons so well. ✨
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
John Lithgow performing the lessons so well. ✨
A hopeful antidote to the heightened ugliness happening in our world.
One best part is the naming of (some) of the wrongdoings; abuses that have been happening worldwide for generations.
Healing cannot begin until the stories and pain of those being hurt are properly heard and acknowledged. Brava.
One best part is the naming of (some) of the wrongdoings; abuses that have been happening worldwide for generations.
Healing cannot begin until the stories and pain of those being hurt are properly heard and acknowledged. Brava.
We applaud the formal #Apology in the Victorian Parliament today to the First Peoples of the lands and waters known as VIC.
Along with Treaty, it will make a difference to resetting the relationship between the VIC Gov and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
youtu.be/W0i3ya52oQs?...
Along with Treaty, it will make a difference to resetting the relationship between the VIC Gov and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
youtu.be/W0i3ya52oQs?...
Parliamentary speeches for the Apology to First Peoples
YouTube video by parliamentofvictoria
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A hopeful antidote to the heightened ugliness happening in our world.
One best part is the naming of (some) of the wrongdoings; abuses that have been happening worldwide for generations.
Healing cannot begin until the stories and pain of those being hurt are properly heard and acknowledged. Brava.
One best part is the naming of (some) of the wrongdoings; abuses that have been happening worldwide for generations.
Healing cannot begin until the stories and pain of those being hurt are properly heard and acknowledged. Brava.
"First he came for the female reporters, and I said nothing because I wasn't a female reporter."
The silence of media bosses is an embarrassing scandal.
The silence of media bosses is an embarrassing scandal.
“You’re the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. A terrible reporter.”
Trump again attacks a Black female reporter, ABC’s Rachel Scott, for asking about releasing the full boat strike video - which he said he would do 5 days ago
And the other journalists stay silent🐔
Trump again attacks a Black female reporter, ABC’s Rachel Scott, for asking about releasing the full boat strike video - which he said he would do 5 days ago
And the other journalists stay silent🐔
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Dear news media,
Stop highlighting the Trump regime's cutesy nicknames for its campaign of cruelty toward immigrants. Stop being partners in the marketing of misery.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Stop highlighting the Trump regime's cutesy nicknames for its campaign of cruelty toward immigrants. Stop being partners in the marketing of misery.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The media must stop helping Trump market misery
Journalists don’t have to repeat the regime’s cutesy nicknames for its corrupt campaigns
www.stopthepresses.news
December 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Dear news media,
Stop highlighting the Trump regime's cutesy nicknames for its campaign of cruelty toward immigrants. Stop being partners in the marketing of misery.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Stop highlighting the Trump regime's cutesy nicknames for its campaign of cruelty toward immigrants. Stop being partners in the marketing of misery.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Classic 😂
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Classic 😂
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"My foothold is tenoned and mortised in granite,
I laugh at what you call dissolution,
And I know the amplitude of time."
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, c. 1855
"My foothold is tenoned and mortised in granite,
I laugh at what you call dissolution,
And I know the amplitude of time."
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, c. 1855
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
💛
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Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse.
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Trump’s Mental Decline Is a Danger to Us All
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse.
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Reposted by Laura Christine Ó Donnell
Indiana Republicans are under significant pressure to do something they know is wrong: rig the maps and silence voters.
Washington Republicans are demanding a "9–0 map." That’s not democracy - that’s cheating. They know it, and they’re ashamed, which is why they’re hesitating.
Washington Republicans are demanding a "9–0 map." That’s not democracy - that’s cheating. They know it, and they’re ashamed, which is why they’re hesitating.
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Indiana Republicans are under significant pressure to do something they know is wrong: rig the maps and silence voters.
Washington Republicans are demanding a "9–0 map." That’s not democracy - that’s cheating. They know it, and they’re ashamed, which is why they’re hesitating.
Washington Republicans are demanding a "9–0 map." That’s not democracy - that’s cheating. They know it, and they’re ashamed, which is why they’re hesitating.