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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 - 5:13pm
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
by Medoza Ameen
Jan 22 2015 - 1:26pm
untitled, Elizabeth Catanese
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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.

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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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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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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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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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