“How happy are you?”
[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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Small-sized Happiness
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.
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 […]
Gossip Medication
Gossip feels therapeutic. When we are feeling down, nothing can anesthetize our blues better than negative news about someone else. Writer Anne Lamott describes a moment once when she felt […]
Joyful Contentment
Levir Rodrigues dos Santos is one of the men I came to admire the most. He was my wife’s dad, my father-in-law. I met him when I was only ten […]
On the Meaning of Freedom?
Much gets said these days about liberty and freedom across the political spectrum. At the heart of talk about “inalienable rights” is usually the notion of freedom, and in the contemporary […]
The Last Generation on Earth?
He suffers, like we all do, but a meaningful life is not a life without pain. Suffering is part of life.
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