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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 11h

The cute young security guard in Whole Foods (to my aging eyes he looked about twelve years old but with a teensy mustache) told me this morning: “loving your look, brah.” After almost two weeks of what turned out to just be a truly miserable cold, that was encouraging.

Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah!

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 7d

“… freedom produced by love was the highest condition available in the given order of things.” Congratulations László Krasznahorkai, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2025!

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 9d

I neither meditate nor pray, instead I watch Cooking at Home videos of the great Jacques Pepin. It’s like watching Michelangelo sketch, or Louis Armstrong solo on an old-timey blues. National and international treasure, is our Jacques.

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 10d

Comfort

Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 11d

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had…” — Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 13d

Remember decency? Take a dose. David McCullough, History Matters, @simonandschuster.bsky.social

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 14d

“What did it really mean to be a writer in such times as these?” Best answer? My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction, by Arundhati Roy. From @haymarketbooks.org

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 15d

“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”
Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall, (The quote is from grr book, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe.) #Hero @janegoodallcan.bsky.social

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 16d

It’s Orange Shirt Day, which commemorates the experience of Phyllis Jack Webstad, whose new orange shirt was taken away on her first day at a residential school.

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 17d

Arundhati Roy’s memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, is easily the best book I read this year. So now it’s time for her collected nonfiction, My Seditious Heart, from @haymarketbooks.org

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 18d

Damn it. Another book I want to read about someone I said I never need to read another book about

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 19d

The great state of Oklahoma ranks 50th in education. For children in Oklahoma public schools, let me explain that there are only fifty states so that means… ? This feller wanted not just Bibles, but Trump Bibles in every classroom — and that was not even his worst idea. Bye, buddy.

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 19d

Concord grapes are the last joy of summer.

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 19d

Licorice because I’m old?

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 22d

No I don’t. But I DO love Louis

Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 23d

Buonanotte, bellezza. #claudiacardinale

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Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 24d

@marinerbooks.bsky.social encouraging to find the glory that is MFK Fisher! Thank you!

Brad Craft @usedbuyer2point0.bsky.social · 25d

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by @rabihalameddine.bsky.social Rabih Alameddine, from @groveatlantic.bsky.social nothing if not unexpected and so, so good. Masterful writer