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The Breaking Project

CHOOSING RADICAL CHANGE

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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
Wheels Spinning in the Mud, Xuan-Shi Lim and Alice Lesnick

consciously, step one, then the other foot follows; moving. the past catches up. moving, unconsciously. the restless mind runs, just as the water flows, unceasingly.

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untitled, Elizabeth Catanese
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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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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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A Series of Breaks, Katrina Obieta

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Although I do not have to let the fact that I am a twin dictate my life or who I am, it is important to realize that I am still part of a whole—me and my twin. I can initiate a series of breaks—breaking away from her, breaking free to be my own self—but it only has the paradoxical effect of making us even closer together, a whole.

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I Break A Lot, Wil Franklin

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... after a life of breaking with old ways, old friends and relationships, with home, with roots, with dreams, what does one become?  What does one fall back on? What is my shape, my color, my default?

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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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