Featured Stories Issue #19
Selected stories from 8,800+ writers supporting 88,600+ readers on ILLUMINATION
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He Just Needed A Few More Months… Cicero, reluctant father figure. medium.com
A Brief History of the Canetuck Rosenwald School in Pender County, NC Community sacrifice built Rosenwald schools medium.com
The U.S. Prisoners and Their Unspoken Philosophy Dignity denied: game of power & death medium.com
Dear Illumination Readers — From Infant to Legend in A Year’s Time The story of Dr Mehmet Yildiz’s baby — Illumination medium.com
Celebration Time With Lord Shiva -The COO Of ILLUMINATION, As It Turns No-1 Today! It’s an honour indeed to be able to seek the blessings and guidance of the most loving, good and kind-hearted living… medium.com
Spinner Part 2 of 4 A woman trapped in an abusive relationship during lockdown investigates a malevolent supernatural force in her… medium.com
Empowering Life Lessons from Women in Black Not a reverie on the rosary, but an homage to the Sisters who taught me at Catholic Girl’s School. medium.com
Needles Some weeks ago, a small piece of news appeared on page sixteen of the Spuzzum District Sentinel alongside a full-color… medium.com
Why I Write So Much And how you can too. medium.com
Book: Philosophy of Life Instinct: Chapter 14: Love and Friendship Two beautiful powers medium.com
Calling your own abundance Today six turkeys walked past my window. I’m a big-time lover of looking up the animal’s spiritual significance. So… medium.com
109 of the Best Writing Quotes Become Better Instantly medium.com
The Medium Playlist on YouTube Expressing my Medium vision through YouTube videos medium.com
How to Get Out of Publishing Purgatory I thought I was the only one with 20+ drafts still waiting to see the light of day. I’m not. medium.com
Do you consume the news or does it consume you? (Hint: it probably does) medium.com
How to take your Life back Is every day in your life the same? Are you unhappy with that? Continue reading and learn how to escape from this trap! medium.com
Villains For Your Story Some fiction writing tips medium.com
An Owl Flying Poem medium.com
5 Easy Tips to Help Raise Financially Smart Kids Don’t wait until your kids get their first job or even worse, move out on their own to teach them these money life… medium.com
Dear Inner Self A poetry prompt for day 4 medium.com
Magical London In The Christmas Season The trip was a dream come true medium.com
Three Men in Prison and a Bee that Could Help Them Escape The boredom of thinking you know everything medium.com
What Is The Difference Between A Dream And Vision Dream and vision,What is the difference between them, what is the meaning of the dream, what is the meaning of the… medium.com
Everyone Must One Day Stand on Their Own Two Feet Helping others too much hurts you and them medium.com
6 Things that I learned during the Covid Quarantine 2020 had been very challenging for me. I had a full year for sure and I bet a lot of people are feeling the same way… medium.com
It’s 25 Years Since the Dunblane Massacre I lived 8 miles away and policed the streets in the aftermath medium.com
Right Now You’re an Acorn. How Do You Become an Oak Tree? You already have all the makings of one inside of you. medium.com
So You Signed Up for Medium, Now What? 3 pronged steps to creating an effective content production process for noovie Medium writers medium.com
8 Reasons You Are Stuck in the Mud The reality of why we have a hard time moving forward. medium.com
10 Success Stories: It’s Never Too Late To Do Anything! It’s Never too Late to Succeed medium.com
Plane of Truth Geometry of Social Justice medium.com
7 Things to Stop Saying When You Talk to Yourself Make the voice in your head work for you. medium.com
Meditation’s Anti-aging Benefits For the life of me I can’t figure out why more people don’t meditate. It’s not that hard, doesn’t take much time and… medium.com
How to be productive in 2021 + Bonus Tip! A student- friendly guide on how to be your most productive self with a bonus tip 🙂 medium.com
How Changing Your Nights Could Return Flow to Your Days The truth about the impact of sleep on every area of our lives medium.com
Look Down Look Down A Lockdown poem medium.com
The One Technique We Can All Use to Reach Greater Success and Happiness How setting intentions can profoundly impact your mindset and ability to be joyful and truly thrive. medium.com
The Small Things Nice People Always Make Sure to Do To understand is to see the human in everyone. medium.com
What Are You Afraid Of? God asked me one day medium.com
Simple Ways That Will Help You Be Happier Now Happiness is not a destination medium.com
My efforts to reduce my carbon footprint has left me, fitter The connection between the two is fascinating medium.com
Make Your Dreams Come True In 3 Easy Steps Don’t die knowing you made the wrong choices in life. medium.com
What’s Making Illumination Stick Out for More Than a Year Now? Is It You? Illumination turns no-1 today. medium.com
Why I Changed My Medium Username It wasn’t mine to use, and may never be. medium.com
Faith is not just a Doctrine… Faith is a core to God! God always tilts towards anyone that acts and operates in faith, no matter who they are… medium.com
Writing is all about showing your personality. Don’t spend your time and energy trying to be someone or something that you aren’t. medium.com
Weekly Reading Insights. By B. A. Cumberlidge. Intrigued Eyes On A Content Creators Prize. Issue №11. medium.com
6 Ways to Survive Your Temporary Job 1. Stop saying “I’ll be happy when…” medium.com
How a Question About An Economic Stimulus Check Led to a Verbal Fight Just don’t ask people if they have received a stimulus check medium.com
There’s No Such Thing As Writer’s Block It’s something you’re not willing to admit. medium.com
Happy Birthday, ILLUMINATION! Might I present a poem in your honor? Do you want some candles too? A song, perhaps? medium.com
Find the Encouragement You Need and How to Deal with Difficulties in Your Life “Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.” J. Sidlow Baxter medium.com
One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#3) A phrase about one simple pleasure in life. medium.com
Hope: Life Force That Outlives the Spring Ephemerals A poem medium.com
Acceptance led to Absence Poetry prompt Day:-6 medium.com
A Step by Step Guide To Becoming A Modern-Day Polymath How to become an expert in at least 3 things medium.com
When A Blessing Doesn’t Feel Complete May the road rise up to meet you medium.com
My Experiments With 24 Hours Water Fasting With respect to study on flow states medium.com
Ask Ezra Politics hasn’t ended with Trump’s loss . . it’s only a very good start. medium.com
I Need to Speak with the Medium gods About Loyalty — Now Small business rule #1: Don’t lose a customer medium.com
5 Things That Make Me Despise My Husband During the Pandemic After 365 days of this, is there such a thing as marital bliss? medium.com
I’m Feeling Twitchy and Nostalgic — and Old, but Let’s Pretend the Last Part is not an Issue Here’s the deal — bullet points that are on my mind, chronologically speaking, in staccati mode, not necessarily in… medium.com
Honestly, I’m Going To Miss The Lockdown (But Not The Pandemic). Here’s Why. A year ago, in early March 2020, I was wrapping up a 1-on-1 with my then-manager at work. These were the times when… medium.com
Tam Coc and Rowing Boat Rides in Vietnam I may not have great words to describe the beauty of Tam Coc. This was one of those memorable travel I have experienced… medium.com
Five Entrepreneurial Lessons I Learned from Binging America’s Next Top Model And no, getting off the couch wasn’t one of them medium.com
What Is Grief if Not Love Persevering? Why one line from episode eight of WandaVision has become a defining moment of the series and helped me cope with the… medium.com
If You Snoop on Your Partner Be Prepared for the Worst A warning from a divorce lawyer of 20 years. medium.com
A Psychological Take on Fighting COVID-19 What behavioural science say about how we should handle the pandemic medium.com
No Celebrations For The Trailblazers Theirs is the call of self-assigned duty that never really ends medium.com
I Choose to Choose and I choose to dance into freedom medium.com
Writing as a Feedback Loop “A sorcerer is an empty man except for a collection of stories with a universal application.” (Carlos Castaneda’s Don… medium.com
Writers: How To Use Twitter To Your Advantage. It takes a while to understand what is going on. I will share my learning through this story. medium.com
Energize The Heartbeat Close your eyes medium.com
Economic Freedom, Prosperity, and the Pandemic Inspiration is in the mind and heart of the beholder medium.com
One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#16) A phrase about one simple pleasure in life medium.com
How to Tame Your Inner Troll Science proves that self-compassion makes us more motivated, hopeful, and resilient. So let’s stop the self-bashing and… medium.com
No Apologies. I Want It All! Is there post-pandemic greed we all crave? medium.com
What If You Became A bluebird medium.com
How Intermittent Fasting Affected My Uric Acid Levels See the impact of Intermittent Fasting and One Meal a Day on Uric Acid with data from years of personal experience. medium.com
Did You Know Your Phone Has a Panic Emergency Button? Here’s useful information on how to set up your device. medium.com
The Writer’s Paradox “Go with the flow“ vs “practice makes perfect”… medium.com
Practise 360 Degree Thinking Develop your writing by using multiple perspectives medium.com
Visit to HQ The Fedora Xtamemory Archives medium.com
Hopeful Living: A Plan To Go Nowhere Ahhhh, the easy life. Wouldn’t it be great? Isn’t it our subconscious goal? Maybe even our conscious goal? To get to… medium.com
Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day Around the world, despite an international pandemic, this day was marked. In green. medium.com
A Smile A smile is a gift medium.com
Values Arbitrage Taking Advantage of Differences in Priorities, Ethics, Culture, and Systems of Meaning for One’s Own Gain medium.com
5 Heartbreaking Lessons I Learned from Losing My Father During Pandemic I’ll never look at life the same way ever again. medium.com
Celebrate the Inspirational Doctor in the Service of People Salutations to you dear doctor for serving in underdeveloped countries and developing communities. medium.com
Silky Night I followed them that night medium.com
3 Reasons Why You Don’t Need A Mentor C’mon, you know what you’re doing. medium.com
Imagine You Can Clone Yourself In this blog, you will imagine that you can clone yourself. Please respond to the following questions: medium.com
Routine to Death Why you must always be willing to rework your routine. medium.com
Day Tripping: March 19 Uprisings, Appeasements, and Game Changers medium.com
How Are You Living Your One Amazing Life? High-quality moments matter most medium.com
Alejandro Diaz Managing with Courage and Compassion During a Global Pandemic By medium.com
Rose and I All I wanna see is a smile on her face, medium.com
You Are a Sum Total of Everything You Have Done and Will Do Keep on adding every day’s experiences and create a life of fulfillment. medium.com
Surreal Tonality A Star Is Made medium.com
How To Provide Motivation You can provide motivation you need medium.com
The Purest Form of Love If you don’t have a pet, you should probably go out and invest, or at least seriously consider getting one. medium.com
You Can Still Have a Job and Get Rich No need to start a business or be an entrepreneur to build wealth medium.com
Tweet of Burden 100-letter micro poems to #twittletweet and #twittleon Twitter medium.com
Writer’s brain should be added to the ICD-10 codes.
Gratitude Towards Death Why I am grateful my father didn’t live longer medium.com
Invest or pay off the mortgage? Which puts you in a better financial position? medium.com
For By Grace You’ve Been Saved Through… Allegiance? I’ve become convinced, with the help of books like Matthew Bates’ Salvation by Allegiance Alone, that in most contexts… medium.com
What Can Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Teach Us About Love When you are a strong team nobody can stand in your way, not even the Queen. medium.com
Inside the Head of a Mental Disorder Patient — conversations with the demons medium.com
Sharon Osborne Made All the Classic White Friend Blunders While the Jazz Academy shows us how to do it right medium.com
Where Could My Luck Have Gone? I used to have a ton of luck, now, I’m afraid I could drown in the shower. medium.com
Dawn of Spring A poem of hope, togetherness, and awakening medium.com
Spinner Part 3 of 4 A woman trapped in an abusive relationship during lockdown investigates a malevolent supernatural force in her… medium.com
Slow But Sure — Wishing A Happy Birthday To Illumination with Champagne! Not another story, but a very special story with a toast and cheers!! medium.com
9 Ways to Be a Great Friend to Someone Who’s Had a Miscarriage There’s often nothing worse than everyone pretending it never happened medium.com
3 Muslim Polymaths Who Changed The World I’d bet you haven’t even heard of them — it’s ok, I hadn’t either. medium.com
How Competing With Myself Helped Build Self-Confidence and Success in Life This Process of Confidence Building Might Be Easier Than You Think medium.com
Tolerance Break Day 5 of 7 — AfroPolymath medium.com
Wow!!! A Milestone for ILLUMINATION — Congratulations Something to celebrate! medium.com
May Peace Be Smattered All Over Your Face Once in awhile medium.com
Grandchildren Are A Blessing Of Life You are fortunate if you have them medium.com
7 Pinot Noir Alternatives That People Deserve to Know About Expand your wine comfort zone and surprise your friends medium.com
The 12 Killers of Our Most Valuable Resource Recognizing these killers in our life and work help us to avoid them and make better use of our time. medium.com
One Lesson I Learned From Procrastination When I left high school and started university, I found it extremely difficult to organize my time studying. I didn’t… medium.com
0. The Yes and No of Existence The Sufi Book Of Life By Neil Douglas- Klotz medium.com
Has Bitcoin Put Us on the Verge of a Decentralized Finance Revolution? What is bitcoin and how does it work? medium.com
5 things about weight loss I found to be untrue These myths only slow down the process instead of improving your health and well-being medium.com
Practical Grandiosity: Robert Greene’s Advice for Success the Smart Way You need to know your limits. medium.com
Attention Units What is our Allotment? medium.com
Why the black community needs to stand in solidarity with the Asian community Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a… medium.com
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