Steven Lee Gilbert

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Imagining a life without envy. 📸 is philosophy.

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Packing for Perfection

Except for slippers, it doesn't exist

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Inner and Outer Journeys

I concluded my essay on Aspects of a Novel, published to paid subscribers a couple of months ago, with a diagram modeling the two journeys a character must face in a story. On the one hand is the outer journey, that is, those things dealing with plot, external conflicts and

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Patriotic Returns

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Move Ins and Arounds

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The Sum of Everything

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Farm Business

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Into Traffic

There is a street and on it the traffic is intense. Cars, Vespas, three-wheeled Apes zipping along, people passing on foot. Oblivious toward me, but not blind. They know I am there, they can see me through the window of the backseat of the car in which I am sitting

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What Version of You are You?

Continuing the quest to better know, understand, love and appreciate our true selves

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M.I.A.

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What Age Are You in Your Head?

Part One of “What Version of You are You” How old are you in your head? Quickly, without giving it much thought—there is no right answer here, after all (well maybe there is, but keep reading). I'm not asking how old you feel. But how old are you? In

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Hailstorm

Rook left the barracks and headed out onto the blacktop where a crowd of twenty or thirty protesters had gathered on this bright sunny day and were lined up along the open field on the opposite side of the street holding their signs aloft and hooting and caterwauling when they