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Recent submissions to ILLUMINATION-Curated
The Power of Gratitude Can Help You Re-frame the Challenges of Life Can’t think of anything to be grateful for? medium.com
Are We Mistakenly Applying Diversification to Humanity? Can We Find New Ways to Heal Divisions? medium.com
Why I Stopped Forgiving People… and Maybe You Should, Too Forgiveness was turning me into a chump medium.com
When My Sisters Preach Truth I love to share it. medium.com
The Good, The Bad, The Not So Ugly: Sheltering in My HOme Office medium.com
Enjoy Communicating With More Ease Making your writing fun will inspire you to continue medium.com
Nature’s Edifice If the world crumbles medium.com
How I Dealt With a Priest Trying to Groom Me A first-hand experience gave me an understanding of how difficult it is to deal with predators medium.com
How to Make Easy No-Knead Sourdough Rye Bread — My Latvian Grandma’s Recipe Sourdough starter and home baked goodness from scratch medium.com
Mexico IS Paying For the US Border Wall? A few Pesos at a time medium.com
The Future Workweek It’s Time for the 40-Hour Workweek to Go. medium.com
Master Bao and the Running Man Real wealth is peace of mind medium.com
The Lover Love lies medium.com
Framed Or Not that’s not the question medium.com
Growth: How Big a Fish, How Big a Pond? A big fish in a small pond? A small fish in a big pond? Or is something else even better? medium.com
Memo to the President Even though it was completely ignored medium.com
Hachiko, An Amazing Dog and Faithful Friend A loyal Akita dog in Japan medium.com
The Chhat Puja Festival The austere six-day mega-festival with two strict fasts of thirty hours and then for forty hours that don’t allow even… medium.com
The Realism of Immediate Continuity Eternal time in the Now only exists as a delusion of our intellects. medium.com
My first iPhone I got YouTube addicted medium.com
Leaving Too Soon Holding my breath medium.com
All The Rocks In My Aquarium Linda, maniacally: If I don’t get that rock back by tonight, I’m calling the Pennsylvania Real Estate Commission and… medium.com
Caution: Be Careful Who You Trust Many Christians who call themselves “prophet” are not medium.com
A Life Not Worth Living A Haiku about a Life Not Worth Living. medium.com
Do You Feel Like You Always Expect the Worst? Blame It on the Genes Most of our ancestors were most probably pessimists. And that was a good thing. medium.com
Spinal Surgery, Complete with ‘True Love’ Watching a five-hour operation to correct a spinal deformity is not for the faint hearted. medium.com
Why Outsourcing Bookkeeping May Be A Company’s Best Option A fundamental question a company should ask itself is whether to keep the bookkeeping function in-house or to outsource… medium.com
Lady Liberty’s Me Too Moment: the Trump Dump But her reality TV ex still stalks her medium.com
Four Responses to Trauma that Destroy Relationships And the one that builds medium.com
Who Benefits Most From A Divided America? Criminal investigators always ask themselves a crucial question when starting on a new case. Who stands to benefit the… medium.com
What Does it Mean to Live Large? It may not be what you think medium.com
I Published Six Articles on Vocal This is what I learned. medium.com
Loneliness and Isolation in a Materialistic World The anxiety to conform to contemporary expectations medium.com
Slow Walking Man (A true story) Poetry and spoken word by Robert Trakofler medium.com
We Can Create Our Own Smart Luck How to harness the power of serendipity medium.com
To That One Guy: A Haiku medium.com
Activating the Power of the Root Chakra Energy, awakening, grounding, and evolution medium.com
7 ways to be Eco-Friendly Being Eco-friendly medium.com
How To Get Out Of Pain What do you do when you have an itch? You scratch it, of course. It’s a knee-jerk reaction that you don’t even have to… medium.com
Lament For a Meadow Sadness and gratitude for a vanishing field of dreams medium.com
It’s SHOWTIME! Only on the New York City subway medium.com
One Thing I Stopped Doing to Get Out of My Depression You need to know how to help you fight your own hopelessness medium.com
4 Helpful Coping Skills for This Terrible Pandemic Fatigue This is hard, but there is a way through it. medium.com
Walter Tsukamoto Was A Japanese American Leader He was also a U.S. veteran medium.com
10 Life Lessons For Children A parent must be their teacher medium.com
Staring Death In The Face… and coming up smiling. medium.com
Struggle to Wake Up in The Morning? You Don’t Have to be a Morning Person to be Successful Tap your energy cycle to boost your productivity medium.com
Why The Buddhists and Aztecs Insist That Happiness Follows The Words You Say What Crosses Your Lips Pre-Frames Your Mind medium.com
Dear President-elect and Vice President-elect: The Bar Has Been Set High Please, don’t let the voters down medium.com
Reserved A Poem medium.com
Fish-bone in Her Gums It wasn’t bad enough to make her become vegetarian medium.com
5 Science-Backed Techniques to Help Your Brain Remember What You Learn In the end, what you remember is what you know medium.com
UPI — India’s Way of Secure Digital Payments It isn’t a Hyperbole that the World smells Innovation in India’s UPI. medium.com
There’s No Place Like Home So why can’t Dad just stay there? medium.com
There’s A Ninja In My Bathtub Trapped with no place to escape, the Ninja’s were apprehended with no one hurt. medium.com
Surviving COVID This is what I did medium.com
Why Data Science Needs People Management Buy-In From Data Analytics to People Analytics to Enterprise Analytics medium.com
A Season of Survivor Was Filmed on an Island Nicer Than Mine The toughest job you’ll ever love. medium.com
5 Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Sleep Quality Why Steve Harvey Is Wrong With His Statement. medium.com
3 Ways I Haven’t Honoured My Friendships Over the Years Some mistakes are just unfixable medium.com
Enchanting Love of Nature You were my morning sun peeping through the window. Waking me up from a beautiful dream You were my breeze in the… medium.com
We had OUR 21ST CLASS today! Teaching fitness to adolescent kids has taught me a lot about resistance and perseverance medium.com
How to Make Your Marriage Last Forever Keeping a marriage together is simply using the right words medium.com
How to Use Free Tools for Better Writing Grammarly, Spellcheck, and Find and Replace medium.com
Living In The Past Can Be More Addictive Than Drugs Living in the past is like an addiction. If you stay where you are, eventually, you will end up slowly destroying… medium.com
2 Powerful Lessons From The Story of Darby — A Salesman Stickability Vs Quitability medium.com
Parsley — Not Just For Decoration A tanka and a stutterer’s response to an acrostic challenge medium.com
What Gives You The Rest You Need Now? Rest gives you the energy you need to be awesome medium.com
Numbers are Meaningless; Words have Meanings Have you ever wondered what the meaning of meaning is? medium.com
Let Your Inner Weirdo Out I’ve encountered and known thousands of people. I’ve never met a ‘normal’. Everyone’s weird in their own way. medium.com
How To Earn Respect Start with not trying to earn respect medium.com
What We Think of as Reality Is Just an Interpretation Lessons learned from ‘Deviate’ by Beau Lotto. medium.com
Swallow Your Pride Cherish being alive medium.com
Getting a Job During a Pandemic Graduating during a pandemic is beyond our control, but our attitude towards it is within our control. medium.com
Guadalupe Can Use Some Help Here Lost: immigrants, 360 children, 545 parents, separated at the border of US and Mexico medium.com
A French Philosopher’s Morning Checklist for An Empowered Life Her list has relevance to our lives even after a full century. medium.com
I Am Celebrating 5 Years of Not Wearing Uncomfortable Footwear Good Decisions Deserves Acknowledgement medium.com
Unusual Experience of Life Valuable lessons learned medium.com
The Body Odor Encounter That Nearly Ruined Flying For Me Just aCanadian trying to get to Cancun medium.com
Couldn’t Think What to Say A Poem medium.com
The New Covid Learning Gap In Education I predict this will impact many students for years to come medium.com
College Football Bets for 11/21 Following and betting along with this blog over the season would have you up $310 so far. Check out the preview to this… medium.com
5 Platforms Where You Can Earn Money by Transcribing Audio Rates, test systems, and my experiences with listening to people talk and writing it down. medium.com
6 ft Apart medium.com
3 Underrated Habits That Can Help You Get More Done in a Day Than Most People Do in a Week It pays to completely clear your mind and begin again medium.com
Checklist for Quality Submissions Improve quality and readability of your stories medium.com
Every Choice You Make Has a bearing on the world you live in medium.com
10 Reasons Why it Makes Sense to Write on Medium #2 and #3 are my favorite. medium.com
People who gain incredible skills after head trauma Acquired Savant Syndrome is an extraordinary condition medium.com
Servant Leaders and the Art of Healthy Communication Sometimes ignorance is the most effective way to disable abusers medium.com
My Mother Died In My Arms A Short Story medium.com
13 Incredible Life Lessons From Mark Zuckerberg Tap into a billionaire’s mind. medium.com
Thankful and Blessed A haiku with some morning gratitude medium.com
Let your goals be your guide Tips for creating stronger systems to achieve success medium.com
Frontier Free verse medium.com
This Quote From “The Good Place” Will Make You See Life in a Beautifully Different Way Life is nothing more than a wave that forms, rolls, crashes, and withdraws medium.com
U.S. POLITICS | THE SENATE | GEORGIA SENATORIAL RUNOFFS JANUARY, 2021 An Open Letter to the Georgia Voting-Eligible People Who Supported Joe Biden medium.com
How To Write With Power We write because we love it. And it makes us better. Here is a short guide to what I’ve learned about writing with… medium.com
How to Make A Thanksgiving Side Dish In Five Minutes And everyone will LOVE it! medium.com
The Fifth Dimension Brings Different and Even Opposing Perspectives Into Coherency We need to illuminate 5D perspectives for the crises we face in the world today medium.com
Fighting off ADHD Hibernation There’s a difference between getting away to recharge, and hiding from the world. medium.com
How to Do Effective 1-Minute Meditation Sessions for Mental and Physical Health Benefits Learn three simple techniques to get you started on a journey to a better well-being. medium.com
The Physical Cost of Outrage It’s not pretty. And it might be killing us. medium.com
Voice Your Own Opinion in Your Writing or the Message May be Lost The story is yours to tell. medium.com
If Your Pursuit is Happiness, Find Happiness in the Pursuit Get lost in the process on the path to fulfillment. medium.com
Reach Your Goals By Eliminating These Bad Habits No bad habit is insurmountable. Your goals are always within reach. medium.com
If Death is Our Wake-up Call, We’ll Always be Too-Little-Too-Late And hitting snooze is not an option medium.com
Are The Star Wars Prequels Better Than The New Films? “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.” medium.com
Don’t Worry About the Future Your current concerns will be history. medium.com
1 Simple Trick to Make a Good and Everlasting First Impression Smile 🙂 medium.com
I Was 23 and Couldn’t Stop Thinking About Death Until the Japanese Senior Citizens Saved Me medium.com
How 3 Secrets and Magic Metaphors Spark Our Stories This image combines an eye and water. So, what about tears? medium.com
A Killer Performance by Keanu Reeves in ‘John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum’ Keanu Reeves delivers more entertaining mayhem in the most recent installment of the ‘John Wick’ action movie… medium.com
Don Trump Can Save the World But he won’t. Here’s why medium.com
Pfizer Vaccine Won’t Help You Now Why you can’t fall into a false sense of security medium.com
Seven French Students from Delaware, Canada, and Billy Joel What could possibly go wrong in that equation? medium.com
Release Phew! medium.com
My Friend Has Become An Activist Although she grew up with white privilege medium.com
A Confession to My Wife For Torturing Her with a Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins medium.com
The Common Bond Between A Black Woman and A“Karen” We both want to reach for our phones to dial 911, but for very different reasons. medium.com
The Secret To Claiming Your Destiny How to discover the passion to live your dreams. medium.com
Practical Ways To Improve Yourself Improve yourself with just a little practice medium.com
Advices that changed my Writing style 3 Pieces of Advice that will help new and old writers reach their goals. medium.com
The Cognative Theory a Bunch of Bananas The ‘aha’ moment when the penny drops medium.com
How Can Perception Hacking Boost the Bottom Line? Lessons from nature, airline, and amusement industry medium.com
New York City Moment I Miss Friday Nights at the Movies medium.com
These Are What I Was Able To Accomplish in 2020 Because of COVID (You Still Have Time To Do the… I look more peaceful. medium.com
This Holiday, Please Fill My Empty Chair With Life medium.com
How to Increase Your Productivity Writing strategies to implement now medium.com
The Things We Learned This Year We May Too Soon Forget When 2020 is over, I hope we’ll remember what we learned medium.com
Imagine Sheldon On Medium Reflections from the inner world of rowdy writers, editors, curators, publishers, and platform owners medium.com
Poetry and Walking The Lockerbie Writers Poetry Safari medium.com
An Interview with Destiny Celebrity guest presenter Madame Illume welcomes you medium.com
Sadness vs. Depression: Ain’t What They Used to Be One Man’s Story medium.com
Why Science Should Take the Soul Seriously Long relegated to the realms of religion, myth, and superstition, the soul is actually our most useful concept for a… medium.com
The Donald Donald Nursery Rhyme How Trump’s behavior will be sung in years ahead. medium.com
3 Simple Ways to Radically Reduce Stress You owe it to yourself. medium.com
Breath Mints A short story medium.com
6 Things That When You Do You Can Be Great at Conversations The skills that make one better at conversations medium.com
Lessons Learned from a Government Agency that Posts Surreal Memes on Social Media How to make your messaging attractive to your target audience medium.com
The Way Forward How (and why) treating the Green New Deal as a boogeyman only ensures we all lose. medium.com
Should Education be Free? How the country will benefit and pay for it; meanwhile, reducing inequality. medium.com
I Am An Indian Dog I was called an Indian dog by someone on Facebook for my opinion. medium.com
How The Brutal Communal Violence Changed My Life 24 Years Back I saw with the naked eye they set my neighbor on fire. medium.com
Change Your View On What You See Take a NEW look on this old 2020 year medium.com
Mustering up the Temerity to Start a Startup in These Uncertain Times This is the life-journey of a fledgeling tech-entrepreneur who attempts to go against the tide. medium.com
My New Canvas I decided natural is my new normal. medium.com
Stories from ILLUMINATION-Curated Compiled by Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Editor in Chief Please enjoy and share. Recent submissions to ILLUMINATION-Curated Cocoa… digitalmehmet.com
The Rise of Industrial America and the Dawn of Individual Liberty A Chronological Glance at the Inverse Relationship between Corporate Personification and the Individual… medium.com
The Crowd – we reach for the light longing for clarity longing for what we do not see medium.com
Can’t Buy a Hat -blues lyric medium.com
The Great Human Race Oblivion medium.com
When is the Last Time You Talked About Axolotls? Heck, do you even know what they are? I didn’t! medium.com
I Had A Great Day Saturday What’s wrong with me? medium.com
Apartheid In America: The Demon of White Privilege We reap now our own desperate heritage as white people who have yet to come to terms with the darkness of our ancestors… medium.com
Doomscrolling The progress of negativity may be destroying you medium.com
Michael Tom Dillon And his big auld haunted house medium.com
The Not So Surprising Last Words of a Billionaire: Steve Jobs What reaching the pinnacle of success truly means medium.com
My Heart Is Bleeding I wonder if spilling words will help stop it medium.com
5 Ways How Illumination Curated Works For Advanced Writers Illumination Curated, Where High Flying Writers Spread Their Wings medium.com
French Kiss Universal Love medium.com
How I was Taught to Deal with Flashbacks When in the Middle of One PTSD can really knock the wind out of you at times. medium.com
Is Time Speeding up? Have a child! Or try these other meaningful ways to slow down your time. medium.com
Zoom Video Meets Cause Rise in Plastic Surgery Zoom Dysmorphia seems real. medium.com
The Leaves Beneath My Feet Autumn’s last call medium.com
The Best Opportunity is Right Now for Writers Learn about the writing business from the history of Rock and Roll Music medium.com
Why Literally Everything You Do Matters Your impact on yourself and the world is greater than you think. medium.com
Covid-19 and Vitamin D: What to do While You Wait for the Vaccine Here’s what you need to know about the role of vitamin D. medium.com
Back to Life. Back to Reality. Back to the Here and Now. In the late 1980s, R&B group Soul II Soul released a single entitled, Back to Life. The song had a simple refrain… medium.com
Insights at the Intersection of Science, Art & Religion. A response to the Mind and Life Institute’s XXVth Dialogue with His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, 2012 medium.com
Make a Speech Like Desmond Tutu It’s you and your audience medium.com
Reflecting on My Startup Journey: Week One What the Hell am I Doing? medium.com
I want a man who wants to text me back Why you are worth more than an afterthought medium.com
Pyjamas of Love and the Sugarplum Fairy Project “Because every child deserves a new pair of pyjamas.” medium.com
Between Failure And Poverty of Dreams That we may dream and dare medium.com
How To Show Your Family and Friends You Love Them This Thanksgiving Hint: from a distance medium.com
Happy Diwali Diwali is a festival of lights over darkness, so fill your heart with the light on this auspicious occasion. medium.com
The Subtle But Practical Art of Meaningful Detachment The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but doesn’t keep… medium.com
5 TED Talks To Watch Today covering diverse ideas, worth spreading medium.com
Self-mastery Every Move That’s Made Should Be Meant To Elevate Us Higher medium.com
The Day I Screened My Calls A poem medium.com
5 Reasons Dating is a Waste of Time For single people medium.com
Where Did All My Average Reading Time Go? Did I become a cr*p writer overnight or is Medium messing with the algorithm again? medium.com
Voluntary Confinement Grateful to remain safe and sound medium.com
5 Reasons Donald Trump Will Run For President In 2024 Don’t say goodbye to the maga hats just yet medium.com
Can We Use Ancient DNA to Recover Extinct Plants and Animals? Using DNA to recover lost traits and maybe even whole animals is not out of the question anymore. But should we? medium.com
Why Sex and Money Will Make You Question Everything You Know A look at why sex sells and money does not medium.com
Why Order Bumps are Draining Your Wallet and How to Stop the Leakage 7 Ways to break our love affair with order bumps and upsells medium.com
Will Your Life Improve Under a New President? The Republicans and Democrats represent different sides of the same coin. What America needs is a new coin medium.com
In my 30’s I am thinking in a lot different way than I used to in my 20’s. In my 20’s, I have made many blunders like any other 20 something. I was never honest with myself, but now in my 30’s I… medium.com
The Squad-Empowering People One Tweet At A Time Other politicians could learn a lot from them, if they choose to listen. medium.com
A Fresh Look at Air in the World Interesting facts most people do not know medium.com
20 enzymes that are used in the food & Beverages industry Enzymes name and its uses medium.com
Ascending Slowly but surely ascending medium.com
The Left Still Doesn’t Understand Trump’s Appeal Dismissing Trump’s supporters as racist is way too simplistic medium.com
The Aztecs and Stoics Explain How to Gain in Happiness (Even While Losing Daily Joys) The Key Is To Interrupt Your Thoughts medium.com
Why You Should Write Your Story, Even If You Think Others Won’t Get It How to get past your doubts and give readers what they want. medium.com
You’ve Got Loads Of White Privilege, Start Sharing It! White privilege is like winning billions of dollars in the lottery. You’ll never be able to spend it all in your… medium.com
One Core Leadership Capability To Empower Writers How three essential points can get you started, increase your confidence, and sustain your motivation for any… medium.com
When Love is a Pain in the ‘But’ my pre-emptive, retrospective admission to inadvertent plagiarism and copyright infringement — or not medium.com
The Dream and The Reality Life is duty medium.com
Why this Rio Grande Valley Lifer Swerved Off a Secure Career Path to Save Lives at the Border… When victims of Trump & Co’s cruel immigration policies got stranded in Mexico, Gaby Zavala stood up for their rights medium.com
Surprising Things I’ve Learned as a Kenyan Living in Australia What’s it’s like to be Black in the land down under. medium.com
Elon Musk Is a Better Marketer than Steve Jobs Three marketing rules from Tesla’s Cybertruck announcement medium.com
A Bermudian-American Poem for Thanksgiving We came to America without a clue When November rolled around and Thanksgiving, too Stories of pilgrims sailing in hope… medium.com
I Spent Seven Years in University and All I Got was a Useless Psychology Degree The story of how university made me lose my mind, and how I got it back and found myself in the process. medium.com
My Polish Hill Say it in Polish: Polskie Wzgórze medium.com
How I’ve Found The Key To Successful Relationships What you can do to unlock this door to deeper bonding medium.com
A Tale Of Xavier A poem in honour of a friend on her birthday medium.com
6 Ultimate Steps For Success in Life Success is more than money and material things medium.com
Totems poetry and spoken word by Robert Trakofler medium.com
A Top Scientific Journal Just Published a Racist Algorithm How a flawed face recognition AI sparked scientific outrage medium.com
Hey Girls, Can We Please Start Birthing the New World? She is ready to be born! medium.com
#StoptheLies, #StopTheSteal Stop the Trump Supporters’ Shameful Offensive to Discredit the Election medium.com
How To Become A Canadian Had enough with the Ignited States? Then it’s time to break up. Here’s how. medium.com
5 Ways to De-Stress Yourself A guide to living the ‘Happy Life’ medium.com
Not Everything New Is Good for You A story about the pain of innovation medium.com
Did Trump promote ‘Crab-Mentality’? “If I can’t have it neither can you” medium.com
Who Is Going To Do The Hard Work? Reconstruction Begins. Again. medium.com
Knowing When To Let Go of A Dream I became a Dreamer after listening to ‘Super Trouper’ by Abba medium.com
Signaling The End for Apple The M1 Chip and the unprecedented end of a good run medium.com
Why do we Need Permission? Stuck between doing what I want and doing what I should medium.com
The Importance of Being Picky on Who You Spend Your Time With Be picky because you only have one life and a limited amount of time on Earth — might as well make it count. medium.com
The Gut Instinct Is Not a Wild Guess Our gut feelings may be more rational than we think medium.com
Seeking Help For Emotional Wellness Hiding is not healing medium.com
Why Trumps Followers Are Just Adult Toddlers And It Has Nothing To Do With Politics Nearly 10 years in the daycare business has explained everything. medium.com
Ode to the Sun God Life Goes On medium.com
Stories From My Head. My Thoughts and Meditations on Creating Story Ideas. medium.com
Why Shiva Lingam Have Earned the Title of God Stone Awakening Kundalini medium.com
7 Alex Trebek Inspiring Quotes Alex Trebek Died on the 8th of November 2020 medium.com
In Mila’s Eyes Poetry on Medium ∙ Autism ∙ Child Abuse and Neglect medium.com
My Fantasy Job Writing For Joe Biden Hey, you never know medium.com
Master Bao and the Lessons of Power Spiritual power cannot be taken. It can only be given away medium.com
What My Son’s Death Has Taught Me About Life From grief to gratitude — Lessons learned the hardest way possible medium.com
5 Easy Ways To Be Less Frustrated While Working At Home #3: Get Rid Of Perfectionism medium.com
Government Testimony: Check Reality Before You Panic Will traffic flow really double & increase golf-cart vs. auto accidents in the retirement community? medium.com
Finding the Razzle-Dazzle When plain old sobriety just isn’t enough medium.com
Forget About Fixing Your Life: Burn it to Ashes & Start From Rock Bottom You Deserve Better Than What ‘Others’ Say You Deserve medium.com
My Takeaway From the Joker Movie My two friends hated it and were shocked when hearing how much I love it… medium.com
Don’t Study For A Master’s Degree If You Can’t Find Any Job, Here’s Why Do not escape reality. Put your head down, and keep hunting. medium.com
The Planet Where it Rains Rocks On K2–141b it rains rocks and the oceans are lava medium.com
Why Nelson Mandela Can Model Our Way Forward “Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build Nations.′′ Nelson Mandela medium.com
The Power to Say *No* to the Wrong Money And get great things. medium.com
Arc Of History Arc of history always being on our side Inevitably moving towards what is right Knowing arc germinates wide and deep… medium.com
Why Are Some Women Still So Afraid Of Personal Power? It’s time to stop asking for it nicely. Just seize it, dammit. And stop voting for The Patriarchy. medium.com
I Tried to Unplug My Family From Devices for One Day Learn from my attempts to disconnect medium.com
Things That Make You Human Are always the things that do not make you needy medium.com
Stick Bug An excellent and fantastic creature medium.com
Understanding the Value of Your Writing Writing is an art; find your purpose in writing medium.com
8 Stoic Quotes That Can Change Your Life Timeless pearls of wisdom from ancient Athens. medium.com
Pizza Delicious Tanka about pizza. medium.com
Into the Crypt of Language The secrets of creation medium.com
Authentic Happiness Comes From Speaking Your Truth The power of speech generates order from chaos. medium.com
Face the Fear and Accelerate Past the Rate of Change The COVID-19 Pandemic sped-up trends that were already happening — reduced office space, digital acceleration, and… medium.com
Looking for My Father in Emerson’s Essays I recently opened for the first time, a volume of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson from the collection of old books in my… medium.com
A Chance to Be a Celebrity A novel experience at a beauty contest medium.com
Blue Solace Shades of inspiration and peace medium.com
secret sky no one knows we are here medium.com
How Introverts Can Thrive in an Extrovert-Dominant Workplace Good news — there is still a need for your quiet creative approach in solitude. medium.com
A Boy Named Lilac A poem about self-authenticity medium.com
Find Better Reasons Behind Other’s Functioning It will help in avoiding demeaning or even idolizing others. medium.com
Illumination Curated: Alternative Healing Similia Similibus Curentur: The Gift of Homeopathy medium.com
To Look Through the Eyes of Love It’s a NEW way for us to see… medium.com
12 Major Reasons Why You Cannot Sleep and How To Deal With It Understand your sleep better. medium.com
Still Looking for That Dream Job? Maybe I Can Save You Some Time 3 truths I learned after searching for fifty years medium.com
Only A Writer Would Have This List A list of places I’ve been, things I’ve done and that have happened to me over 72 years that is of interest to no one. medium.com
Letter of Gratitude to Dr. Mehmet Yildiz and Illumination-Curated You’re making a difference, Sir; I thought you should know medium.com
55 Viral Stories That Attracted A Million+ Views Readers can enjoy and writers can learn from these outstanding stories. medium.comPoems of Popular Poets Selected poetry pieces from ILLUMINATION-Curated medium.com
ILLUMINATION Fiction Club An invitation to fiction writers to unite and collaborate for productive fun medium.com
Dropping the Fart A chaotic response to “chaos” medium.com
12 Thoughts When Spooning at Dawn How to know if the choice was right, a review when cuddling after 40 years. medium.com
Heal An Ill Eat this haiku medium.com
Reclaim your Rhythm in life Pause!! medium.com
Plant Immunity: Qualitative and Quantitative Resistance Plant immunity consists of dual resistance mechanisms that are qualitative and quantitative in nature. medium.com
Authors: Are You a One-Trick Pony? If you’re writing a book, don’t be a one-trick pony. medium.com
You Shall Not Pass: Common Law Rights To Privacy In Your Home A History medium.com
American Elections 2020 How our world sees it medium.com
Find Inspiration In Your Creative Family Tree Think like your creative heroes to find untapped creativity medium.com
Dear White Women: Now That We Have Your Attention, May I Have a Word? (Part Four) Five more thoughts from the heart of a Black woman medium.com
China Is Keeping A Close Watch On The 2020 US Elections The sleeping dragon is waiting for his moment to strike medium.com
How To Get Yourself Out Of A Rut It’s more than just taking a break medium.com
How to End the Cycle of Relationship Self-Sabotage Work on yourself before you delve into a serious relationship. It might help you. medium.com
The Journey of Traveling Ailments The Battle of “Old-trition” medium.com
How to Become Employee of the Year? Anger shares his proven strategies medium.com
The Separation Game Longing for unity medium.com
We Desperately Need Election Reform It’s easy to do and it must be done medium.com
5 Interesting Ways to Travel From Your Living Room Traveling back in time to journeys from long ago is a great way to experience old travels in a new light! medium.com
“I Traded My Couch for a Mouse” How a Counseling Psychologist Became One of the Good Guys Online medium.com
5 Ways to Build Resilience During Tough Times Resiliency is your belief in yourself and your ability to achieve your goals. medium.com
How My African Identity Was Erased By White Supremacy Colonialism is another form of white supremacy that seeks to establish white culture as superior to black and brown… medium.com
What Jeff Bezos Can Teach Us About Success and Innovation Jeff Bezosmedium.com
Empathy, the Emperor of All Virtues, Has a Dark Side Rational compassion seems a better choice than empathy in making a difference in the world medium.com
Breakthrough Stories Make All the Difference A couple of popular pieces can really raise your profile as a social media writer. Here’s my story, as well as my… medium.com
Do You Need A Quitting Coach To Help You Help Other People Exit? Firings can be drama-free & allow the fired person keep their dignity medium.com
Wisdom on Embracing the World With Love and Understanding Meet Amma, the mother of millions medium.com
The Party Never Stops in Madrid Why we love Madrid so much! medium.com
Clichés May Be Annoying but They Persist Because They’re True Here is my take on one of them. medium.com
The Last Day of Freedom The story about the last hike before they took our freedom medium.com
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