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Author Archives: René Breuel

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Guys, super-heroes, and semi-gods

May 20, 2013by René Breuel 5 Comments

Last night I did something I had not done for a long-time: go to the cinema with a bunch of guys to watch a super-hero movie. Iron Man 3 was […]

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On Anything and Everything
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A new look!

May 17, 2013by René Breuel 1 Comment

We thought of trying out a new look for Wondering Fair! Let’s open a curtain here, shed some sunlight there, clean up the fonts a bit. What are your thoughts? […]

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Housekeeping
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Should you marry young?

May 6, 2013by René Breuel Leave a comment

[Note: this month my first book, The Paradox of Happiness, is being released, and I’m dedicating my next Wondering Fair articles  to the theme : ) You can check out the book […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

A Summer Banquet

May 2, 2013by René Breuel Leave a comment

There are some good secrets behind Wondering Fair. Just like any living thing, say, a river, there are sources that flow to it, influences that have shaped the way many […]

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Open Mic
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“How happy are you?”

April 29, 2013by René Breuel Leave a comment

[Note: this month my first book, The Paradox of Happiness, is being released, and I’m dedicating my next Wondering Fair articles  to the theme : ) You can check out the book […]

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Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice, Spirituality for the Rest of Us
Spring Dress

Small-sized Happiness

April 22, 2013by René Breuel 6 Comments

As harmless as it might seem, that dress billboard is part of a culture that defines beauty and happiness according to its own commercial logic. It is an illustration of our society’s ideal of happiness as duty, as an implacable, unbinding rule forced down on everyone.

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Bar Conversations and Cheap Advice
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The Paradox of Happiness

April 15, 2013by René Breuel 2 Comments

[Note: this month my first book, The Paradox of Happiness, is being released, and I’m dedicating my next Wondering Fair articles  to the theme : ) You can check out the book […]

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On Anything and Everything
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“Me again”

April 8, 2013by René Breuel 3 Comments

Maybe one of the most celebrated stories of ancient times is the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. An inspiration to numerous later works – from The Phantom of the Opera to […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us
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Grace is Gamble, Always

April 1, 2013by René Breuel 1 Comment

The latest film rendition of Victor Hugo’s classic, Les Misérables, is beautiful and intense and lyrical. The photography is gorgeous, the storytelling vivid, and the songs continue to hum in […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us
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Running Toward Life

March 28, 2013by René Breuel Leave a comment

I was flipping a book at a friend’s house one day – one of those fancy editions that even smell well – when an image took hold of me. It shows two […]

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