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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

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?

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

Emergence, Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus

How do you write about the drama that is occurring in the inner world - the rich and complex landscape of dreams, active imagination and synchroncities?

Making Amends: Ringing the Bells That Still Can Ring, Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus

I couldn’t take my eyes off the words as they appeared on the screen. It was as if they were written in a secret code I had seen my entire life but only now, in this instant, could I decipher.

The Role of Smoking Cigarettes in the Education of a Young Jew, Jody Cohen

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She opens the Lucky Strikes and lights one, then another and another,
experimenting with how to do it until suddenly she’s
swaying in the buzzing morning heat.

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.

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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