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The Breaking Project

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CHOOSING RADICAL CHANGE

An Evolving Anthology

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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

Breaking: A Life Story in 10 Fragments, Anne Dalke

But I was after the truth, which impels me...in the searches I conduct both in my classes and in student conferences. That is the cause of my questioning, unremitting, my refusal of complacency, my insistence that, hard and deep as we may dig, we will never, ever get to the bottom.

Guy Walks Into a Bar, Alice Lesnick

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

I Break A Lot, Wil Franklin

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... after a life of breaking with old ways, old friends and relationships, with home, with roots, with dreams, what does one become? What does one fall back on? What is my shape, my color, my default?

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.

untitled, Elizabeth Catanese

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?

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

But I was after the truth, which impels me...in the searches I conduct both in my classes and in student conferences. That is the cause of my questioning, unremitting, my refusal of complacency, my insistence that, hard and deep as we may dig, we will never, ever get to the bottom.

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

[image source]

... after a life of breaking with old ways, old friends and relationships, with home, with roots, with dreams, what does one become? What does one fall back on? What is my shape, my color, my default?

[image source]

[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?

Contents So Far . . .

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