DEVIN BOQUIST

LIKES & LOVES:
documentaries
San Pellegrino
environmental awareness
goal setting
short americanos and cafe culture
sweaters tucked into jeans
electric vehicles
road trips
bending the rules
passionate conversations
meditation

DISLIKES:
ego maniacs
slow internet access
public speaking
pessimism
confrontation (although sometimes necessary)
working for the need of money

LIKES & LOVES:
Mom & Dad
sunshine
the first beer
Africa
finding a better way
a perfect Americano, cream and brown sugar
a fine line
the desert
opening scene of Punch Drunk Love
warm nights
the truth
Johnny Cash
the second beer
Mid June, 8 p.m., the sun’s almost gone. Rowing a boat that you built yourself out into the lake, and catching a 3lb rainbow on your first cast... on a dry fly.
Madrid at night
taking off first thing in the morning
gin & tonic
the smell of a dry forest
why
The Old Man and The Sea
nothing but blue skies
this: “That was how my good life began. Since then I’ve gone through the world drawing the fever out of malaria victims for two pesos, visioning blind men for four-fifty, draining the water from dropsy victims for eighteen, putting cripples back together for twenty pesos if they were that way from birth, for twenty two if they were that way because of an accident or a brawl, for twenty five if they were that way because of wars, earthquakes, infantry landings, or any kind of public calamity, taking care of the common sick at wholesale according to a special arrangement, madmen according to their theme, children at half price, and idiots out of gratitude, and who dares say I’m not a philanthropist, ladies and gentlemen, and now, yes sir, commandant of the twentieth fleet, order your boys to take down the barricades and let the suffering humanity pass, lepers to the left, epileptics to the right, cripples where they won’t get in the way, and there in the back the least urgent cases, only please don’t crowd in on me because I won’t be responsible if the sicknesses get all mixed up, and people are cured of what they don’t have, and keep the music playing until the brass boils, and the rocket firing until the angels burn, the liquor flowing until ideas are killed, and bring on the wenches and the acrobats, the butchers and photographers, all at my expense ladies and gentlemen, for here ends the evil fame of the Blacamans and the universal tumult starts.”

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
“Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles”

DISLIKES:
indescision
waste
inefficiency
brussel sprouts
cauliflower
6° and raining
by-law fines
blackmail