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  image generated by AI Most people grow up learning where the edges of the box are. I grew up walking past them without noticing they were supposed to matter. It wasn’t rebellion. It wasn’t defiance. It was simply that the box never made sense to me—too small, too rigid, too uninterested in the particularities that make a person who they are. I didn’t know there was a box until other people told me I had stepped out of it. The First Prism In elementary school, the science fair was a parade of store‑bought kits: sleek prisms, polished mirrors, tidy instructions. I showed up with a handful of homemade prisms—pieces of window glass, cut into triangles, and, as I discovered in the process was needed in order to control and direct the angle of the refraction, covered on both sides with black construction paper. They worked! Of course. They were based on the function of light. I made them myself, together with my science fair partner, because we had no money to buy a fancy kit (those ki...

  The award-winning book,  An Afternoon's Dictation  (Greenebaum), is available free from Kindle countdown April 12-17. Book Description:  In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life.   An Afternoon's Dictation  grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is NOT offered as the only possible way to understand it the dictation. It is offered, rather, as a start. The book's sections include deep explorations into "The Call to Interfaith," "The Call to Love One Another," "The Call to Justice," and "The Call to Community."...