Running Toward Life
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 […]
Author Archives: René Breuel
Marilyn Monroe’s Dream
Marilyn Monroe had a disturbing dream in 1955. She recollects in fragmented sentences how her psychoanalyst and her acting teacher had her in an operation room, and started to open […]
The Grand, Multi-Color Story
“Why is mythology everywhere the same?” This may sound like a simplistic judgment – there are so many myths across history, from the Hindu Vedas to the Nordic tales and […]
The Gospel according to Rapists
I have carried a knot in my throat ever since I read about the gang rape of a paramedics student in India last December. The crime stirred a raging debate […]
Red Carpet Tales
My wife dragged me to watch the red carpet coverage of one of the last Academy Awards. (Ok, this is my macho excuse to justify my presence in front of […]
How can we be free from our past?
A friends’ friend killed himself last year. Taylor (let’s call him that) saw his life turn into a nightmare after he stabbed a guy to death, and the story was […]
Valentine’s Day Sugar
Heart-shaped pillows. Teddy bears who send kisses. Movies which exalt the magic of love at first sight. Girls receiving jewel-priced flower bouquets at work. “I love you more than ever” […]
Dancing Hula-Hula in Tahiti
In an 1867 play called Peer Gynt, Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen expresses what would become one of the fundamental dogmas of modern, and even more post-modern, humanism: “What should a man be? […]
Love Continued
The movie About Time features a plot that surprised and touched me deeply, both for what it communicated and for what it didn’t. The blissful, romantic laughing-in-the-rain movie poster had […]
Christmas Truce
With Jesus’ arrival, God came to us and offered a truce.
Wondering Fair 