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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 - 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.

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.

untitled, Elizabeth Catanese

Guy Walks Into a Bar, Alice Lesnick

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

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?

Truth and Power in Education, Bharath Vallabha

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If the teacher doesn’t stand for something, if the teacher doesn’t say there are some things which are good and some bad, then the students will not have the rupture which is essential for growth.

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]

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.

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

[image source]

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?

[image source]

If the teacher doesn’t stand for something, if the teacher doesn’t say there are some things which are good and some bad, then the students will not have the rupture which is essential for growth.

Contents So Far . . .

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