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The Breaking Project

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CHOOSING RADICAL CHANGE

An Evolving Anthology

EXPLORE RESPOND CREATE THE COURSE

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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

Been a Long Time Leaving, Rob Goldberg

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Struggling to think of an apt high-school yearbook quote, I suggested Waylon Jennings’, “I’ve been a long-time leaving but I’ll be a long-time gone,” but my mother instead convinced me to use Dickens’, “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” At the time I said something like, “I guess that’s a better quote Mom” and went on my way. Now in the hindsight of 28 years of experience, my eyes involuntarily fill with tears every time I revisit this moment. That one word “worst” covers a lot of ground.

Breaking in Six Degrees, Hallie Garrison

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Someone’s marriage leads to someone’s birth, a death, a relation, twice-removed in a gene pool of obligation, or maybe true love, or perhaps legacy. You can’t start over, because you can’t stop it, that forward march.

Learning from the Past of Fear, Ivana Evans

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As a child, I hungered for power and influence, like I suppose many of the children in my impoverished hometown. I heard of children attempting to obtain such power through stealing and killing. But I knew that wasn’t the type of power I wanted.

Guy Walks Into a Bar, Alice Lesnick

My friend, this is changing:
Suspense, you know, breath
Without rhythm

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.

Breaking Down, Samantha Martinez

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My thick walls of protection disintegrated and what was left was a shell of me, in pain, weak, with a loss of words, and a near deadly fascination with dying.

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

The Breaking Project

An Evolving Anthology

EXPLORE RESPOND CREATE THE COURSE

Latest Breaking

[image source]

[image: Anne Dalke]

Someone’s marriage leads to someone’s birth, a death, a relation, twice-removed in a gene pool of obligation, or maybe true love, or perhaps legacy. You can’t start over, because you can’t stop it, that forward march.

[image source]

As a child, I hungered for power and influence, like I suppose many of the children in my impoverished hometown. I heard of children attempting to obtain such power through stealing and killing. But I knew that wasn’t the type of power I wanted.

My friend, this is changing:Suspense, you know, breathWithout rhythm

[image source]

My thick walls of protection disintegrated and what was left was a shell of me, in pain, weak, with a loss of words, and a near deadly fascination with dying.

Contents So Far . . .

My friend, this is changing:
Suspense, you know, breath
Without rhythm