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The Breaking Project

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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 - 4:13pm
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
by Medoza Ameen
Jan 22 2015 - 12:26pm
Learning from Extinctions... and Life, Paul Grobstein

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Why are we so upset by death and other breaks, by losses that produce disruptions of the established pattern of things, when so many other things around us treat them with equanimity, even indifference?

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Breaking: A Life Story in 10 Fragments, Anne Dalke

But I was after the truth, which impels me...in the searches I conduct both in my classes and in student conferences. That is the cause of my questioning, unremitting, my refusal of complacency, my insistence that, hard and deep as we may dig, we will never, ever get to the bottom.

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Breaking My Heart, Julia Lewis

Breaking into the reader’s mind is the beginning of any piece of writing.  It might be as violent as a rock through a window or as subtle as habituation to an alarm clock.  The form of writing that specializes in breaking is poetry.

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Walking Poem, Alice Lesnick and Emma Wipperman

please I desire none of it but there was nothing else for sale and the money burns a well in my sole i want to walk

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On People Watching, Linkai Jiang

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Remember when you were just born? Ok, you probably don’t remember it--and that is exactly how you want to be at the incipient moment of people watching.

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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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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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