Elissa Olinsky

@elissaolinsky.bsky.social

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Human-centered everything. Doing product at @factal.com, singing on Capitol Hill, mom-ing always and everywhere, fixing signs in your museum. Pay your interns! (she/they) frankleolinsky.com

The front facade of the Kennedy center, where scaffolding is now built up to the level of Trump’s name, as thousands of onlookers cheer.
Three cardboard signs standing on green grass under tall trees: two show green books with white pages, stacked but with whimsy, and a third is a blue book, partially open, with the title Prose in the Park.
A snowy backyard with about four inches of snow on furniture and grass
A hand holds a small book open, showing the right hand page with these words in a handwriting-style block font: Let me say right now for the record: I’m still gonna be here asking this world to dance. Even if it keeps stepping in my holy feet. You, you stay here with me, okay? You stay here with me. Raising your bite against the bitter dark, your bright longing, your brilliant fist of loss. Friend, if the only thing we have to gain in staying is each other, my god that is plenty. My god that is enough. My god that is so, so much for the light to give. Each of us at each other’s backs whispering over and over and over. “Live. Live. Live.”
A book with a stylized heart pulling at its eyes with a screaming mouth saying “Quiet, Brain!” Subtitle is Heartfelt Activities for Mental and Emotional Progress by Nick Seluk. Around the book are a bookmark with a cartoon smiling flower in a green field in front of a cartoon brain, on whose top a content-looking cartoon heart balances; a red pencil that says “you’re doing great!” in white letters; and a pair of white post-it note pads, one showing a studious cartoon brain and titled “adult responsibilities”, the other showing a leaping cartoon heart and titled “utter nonsense”.
A pothos on a windowsill in a painted pot. In the foreground is a large vine covered in green leaves, but on the left of the pot, barely visible and circled in yellow, is a tiny shoot emerging from the soil and reaching for the sky.
Husband Ben in a blue suit smiles warmly at the camera. Behind him, the hall of the White House is decorated with oversized candies and the columns are wrapped in festive red, mint, pink, and white ribbons. In the center is Maya, an almost-four-year-old, in a dark blue dress with sparkles, cream tights, and Mary Janes. Her back is turned to us as she walks confidently down the hall.
Movie poster-style graphic featuring the three faces from the standoff scene of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but the last face has googly eyes over it. Text reads “The good, the bad, and the googly”