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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Read this book. I understand what is happening now.

Book cover: The Nerd Reich by Gil Duran.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hanging in there. Reading and doing very tiny (!) crosstitch for a baby sampler.

Pictured are a cross stitch pattern half completed and 3 book covers: Vigil by George Saunders, The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright and Flashlight by Susan Choi.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Happy Barack Obama Appreciation Day. A new hand sewn quilt is taking shape for a wondrous new baby.

4 pictures showing some books read and some ongoing hand work. This is Happiness by Neil Williams and London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe. Happy Obama Appreciation Day.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Some great books read and knitting for a friend in Minnesota.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I guess I have a Bluesky routine - handwork (these socks are not quite off the needle) and books. Robert Reich’s is so interesting and clearly informative to America’s current predicament.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Hand sewing calm and two mind-expanding books read in the past weeks.

Pictured are the covers of 2 books: The Silence of the Choir and The Ends of the world. Along with those are a picture of a calm scene in front of a lake and hand sewn quilt.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

More reading and knitting. Adam Becker’s book explained a lot to me - effective altruists, longtermists.. Who is Government posits public servants as more than trustworthy. I read everything he writes. Knitting with my heart for a new arrival.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Apparently it’s not uncommon to unravel your first attempt at knitting socks.. Try, try again.

Sock cuff knitted, and 3 Book covers - The Shadow Docket by Stephen Vladeck, Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood, Shameless by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

- More books listened to and the quilt coming together

Two book comers are pictured: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, and Train Dreams. Quilt blocks are laid in order on the third image.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Again with the books and handwork..starting the Rail Fence quilt pattern for a new member of the family on the way.

Pictured are blue and white strips of fabric pre-cut for sewing into a quilt. Also pictured is the cover from the book, The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Erhlich and Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My little sign for today’s protest. I’d rather be reading, doing handwork or playing with my grandchildren, but this is something that has to be done.

Pictured is my 8 by 11 piece of printer paper with three words: impeach, convict, remove.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Experimenting with colorwork knitting and doing some reading.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A good day reading and rug making in bad times.

4 pictures in a square - a stem of native azalea blossoms, a campsite, and the covers of 2books: Dayswork and On Tyranny.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This two-story tall star magnolia tree’s blooms are making my days better.

Pictured is a sloping branch of a flowering tree with large white petals and a pink center.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

New Orleans had a pretty good sized group, too. ✊🏻💙

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I took my own, amateur shot of some 3-inch, dusty mushrooms. They sprouted atop a banana plant chopped down after the surprise snow storm that hit these parts in January.

Photo of two light beige mushrooms- one about 3inches tall fully upturned. A smaller one beneath with a ball shaped top.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Of necessity, back to books and rug hooking. The epigenetics book is fascinating.

Pictured are the covers of two books: Epigenetics by Nessa Carey and Wayward by Chuck Wendig. Also pictured is the linen backing and pattern for a custom designed rug.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

And snow shoveling with garden shovels..

Picture of an older man bent over shoveling snow off the steps of his house with a narrow garden shovel.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

EPIC snowfall happening in New Orleans and across the south. Enjoying this day!

Snow covered bird feeder with a sparrow perched while it continues to snow which is only unique because it’s in south Louisiana.

Wide girthed water oaks dusted with snow surrounded by tropical palm fronds covered in snow in a place where even a light freeze is uncommon.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

This is for all the folks who are posting incredible pictures of mushrooms outdoors that I like so much. I took this picture of conjoined white button mushrooms bought in a grocery store pack. I have no idea how common an occurrence it is.

Side view of combined white button mushrooms.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I think I want to read these: from The NY Times list of 100 Most Notable Books of 2024. What sayest thou?

Four book covers are pictured from the New York Time’s list of the most notable books of 2024. They are: The Book of Love by Kelly Link, The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain by Sofia Samatar, The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Sarr and The Rebel’s Clinic by Franz Fanon.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A good morning for hand quilting and listening to stories..

Needle and thread lay against a quilting project. The fabric is brightly colored yellow, orange, red, purple and white bringing to mind Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two other pictures show the book covers of Haruki Murakami’s The City and its Uncertain Walls, and Charmaine Wilkerson’s Black Cake.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I have a second hand connection to this Gaza pediatrician. He has no time for politics of any sort. He is dedicated to his family and his young patients. That is all. #freedrhussamabusafiya

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This came to mind- lichen binoculars

Two cut logs, side by side with lichen rimming both circular ends in a brown, leaf-strewn park.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This little hat knitted for my grandchild came out so well! Of course it’s the dyed cotton yarn that did a lot of the work.

A knitted baby’s hat in broad green, violet, orange and pink stripes with a small pink pompom.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It made me feel more hopeful for my grand daughters. It made me want to be a mycologist in my next life. Haha. I was midway through when at a restaurant my daughter ordered fried oyster mushroom. It was a shocker to me and it was delicious.

Fried oyster mushroom splayed in a plate with drizzles of a tasty spicy sauce and topped with parsley.

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

#booksky 💙📚 Anyone reading this amazing book?

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Laurie Olson @2lolson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Listened to these two interesting books while twinning.

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