Author: Ryan Boyd
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Pumpkin Pie, Veganized
Around 20 years ago, a confluence of ideas and events led me to the conclusion that I should go vegan. I quietly conveyed this to my younger brother while we were standing in my kitchen, and he paused. He put his hand on my shoulder, gave me a deeply concerned look, and said “Oh, no,…
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Onto Something
“The search is what everyone would undertake if he were not stuck in the everydayness of his own life.To be aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.Not to be onto something is to be in despair.” Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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Simplify
During my 20s, I amassed a huge collection of videogame hardware and software. Multiple rooms were dedicated to housing the collection: hardware from the 70’s and 80’s in one room, 90’s in another, 2000’s in a third. A closet literally overflowing with C64s. A dozen shelves supporting boxes containing esoteric peripherals and accessories: light guns,…