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The Breaking Project

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Past, Present & Future

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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

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.

Brandy Snaps and Battlefields, Clare Mullaney

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What if, like the brandy snap, our own breakages prodded our supple shaping not just to the end of a spoon, but to those around us—those who too are afflicted with burdens birthed of deviation?

Guy Walks Into a Bar, Alice Lesnick

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

untitled, Elizabeth Catanese

How Not to Hassle the Unconscious, Paul Grobstein, Laura Cyckowski, and Alice Lesnick

4-Panel Image Sequence, Elizabeth Catanese

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

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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