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The Breaking Project

CHOOSING RADICAL CHANGE

An Evolving Anthology

 

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Past, Present & Future

“Inhale the future. Exhale the past.”

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Past, Present & Future
by David A. Feingold, Ed.D
Aug 20 2015 - 5:13pm
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
by Medoza Ameen
Jan 22 2015 - 1:26pm
untitled, Elizabeth Catanese
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Feels of Time

Rumour has it that time goes in a cycle . . . 

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Making Amends: Ringing the Bells That Still Can Ring, Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus

I couldn’t take my eyes off the words as they appeared on the screen. It was as if they were written in a secret code I had seen my entire life but only now, in this instant, could I decipher.

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First we have the Earth, where disruptive earthquakes make it a dynamic planet. If we zoom in on the humans that inhabit the planet, we see that they too must bend and break according to stress to be dynamic beings. . . . 

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Breaking Glass, Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus

The process of individuation which one can experience in mid or post mid-life involves the total breakdown of the persona. It cracks and crumbles, no longer able to contain all that is going on in the psyche. And presumably, or so I have read, after the breakdown and fragmentation, one becomes whole.

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4-Panel Image Sequence, Elizabeth Catanese

It's about finding a whole and releasing a hole. Breaking happens first.

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Contents So Far . . .

Introduction, Alice Lesnick
Acknowledgements
Breaking: A Life Story in 10 Fragments, Anne Dalke
Been a Long Time Leaving, Rob Goldberg
Learning from Extinctions . . . and Life, Paul Grobstein
The Role of Smoking Cigarettes in the Education of a Young Jew, Jody Cohen
Walking Poem, Alice Lesnick and Emma Wipperman
Breaking Down, Samantha Matinez
Untitled, Jessye Cohen-Dan
Hungry Ghosts, Jody Cohen
Truth and Power in Education, Bharath Vallabha
Breaking in Six Degrees, Hallie Garrison
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