Table of Contents

An Epiphany in Slow Motion 

What’s in This Book 

What Is Veganism? 

How to Use Google to Learn about Veganism 

Common Stereotypes and Misconceptions about Vegans and Veganism 

This Book Is for You 

Halcyon On and On 

This Life of Verve & Loathing 

Imperfectionism 

Lighting the Lamps in the Mind and Heart 

Rendezvous with Fate 

New Channels of Thought 

Ordinary Cruelty 

Wallpaper Girl 

The Well at World’s End 

A Small and Certain Thing 

FOMO or Faux Moo? 

To Learn Something Is to Lose Something 

A Conversation with Yitzy Holton-Hinshaw and Colin Weeks 

Libri et Brassica 

A Q&A with Nicola McLean 

Pulling a One-Eighty 

A Q&A with Henry Lien 

All This Power, How Can I Be Afraid? 

A Conversation with Josephine Skapare 

Soft Animal Bodies, Yours and Mine and Theirs 

A Q&A with Fiber Artist Heidi Braacx 

The Handmade Wardrobe 

A Conversation with Nava Atlas 

A Mirror Facing a Mirror 

A Conversation with Cynthia King 

Where’s Wilbur? 

A Conversation with Janyce Denise Glasper 

Twilight Zone Redux 

A Conversation with Alec Thibodeau 

The Edible Woods 

A Q&A with Tanya O’Callaghan 

Straight-Edge Cinderella  

A Conversation with Lacresha Berry 

The Gold in the Shadow 

A Conversation with Melanie Light 

Scuba Diving as a Spiritual Practice 

A Conversation with Debra Diane 

Life in Technicolor 

A Conversation with Maya Gottfried 

Vegan for the Future 

A Conversation with Donald Vincent 

This Is Not an “Impossible Dream” 

If You Can Move, You Can Dance 

Endnotes 

Further Reading, Resources, and Inspiration 

Acknowledgments 

About the Author