Featured Stories
Curated Collection #37
Selected stories for avid readers
Dear Readers,
Today, we selected and compiled a small number of great stories published on ILLUMINATION out of many published pieces today. Our purpose is to give avid readers a quick taste of engaging and informative stories and poems from this diverse and inclusive publication on Medium.
We established a new publication called “ILLUMINATION on YouTube” aiming to give voice to YouTubers on Medium and allow Medium writers to introduce their YouTube channel. All writers and YouTubers are welcome to join this new journey. Details are in this story.
To reduce the administrative workload for 15,000 writers with new additions each day, we plan to add a small editorial bulletin to introduce new writers joining us each day. To this end, we created a master copy of our onboarding pack and will not be making these packs weekly.
Creating new onboarding packs is tedious for editors, and we want to invest this time in reviewing, publishing, and featuring activities for the growth of our writers. Instead, we add a master pack here and tag new writers at the end of this post so that they can access the pack via a single post. This will save us significant time.
Adding accounts of new writers to this post will enable them to meet our featured writers and learn from their skills. In addition, this plan will give an opportunity to our existing writers to find and follow new writers.
Hopefully, this new plan will allow better cross-pollinating our writers, which is one of our goals. Here is the master copy of the onboarding pack which is an essential read for new writer as it includes guiding information to benefit from our publications.
You may check featured collections in a single post titled Meta Collection of Featured Stories: Easy access to daily selected stories from engaging writers of ILLUMINATION: Volume 3–2022.
We hope you find some valuable and enjoyable pieces from this collection and previous collections for you Sunday reading. You may also check great stories in our featured collection from the last three days. Here are the last three collections full of interesting stories covering many topics.
The Last Three Collections by ILLUMINATION
Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
Three Tips to a Defined Body and Sharp Brain Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Regulate Emotions with Three Tips Dr Mehmet Yildiz
To The One Smiling Into The Light Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
The True Story Of The Confederacy Moving To Brazil Matt Lillywhite
How To Follow Your Gut Max Mask, BSc, MBA.
Do You Have To Love Your Family? Argumentative Penguin
Grandpa Goes and Gets Some Arlo Hennings
This is What Happened Again in the Year 2022 AHK
A Dog PersonAlan
Why I Created an Embarrassingly *Messy* Blog Alex Philippe
Why Putin Loses In His Own Game AMIKO
Barefoot in the Snow. Crazy Supercharge Andrey Pilipets
Six Shitty Myths People Said Would Happen Over 40 and Never Did Ange Dim
The 5 Downsides of Being a Digital Nomad No One Tells You About Angela Choi
How Long Can You Continue to Use the Same N95 Mask Anshul Kumar
The Anti-Racist’s “Racism” Casey Parker
How Gaslighting Yourself is The Most Dangerous Form of Emotional Abuse Chris Freyler
Medium (Probably) Won’t Work For You, Unless… Christian Soschner
How Wordle is Saving Us from Ourselves Dakota Duncan
12 Things To Remember If You Ever Feel Like A Failure Dave Richards
You Still Have Time To Change The World Debbra Lupien, Voice of the Akashic Records
Can you Play Backgammon? Dimitrios Fanourios Pischinas
Confessions of the Mad — February 2, 2022 DMTakeshi
How I Kick-Start My Day’s Writing Don Martin
Management Fix Eduardo Espinheira
Spawn of Harvey Weinstein Elizabeth Emerald
A Death Row Inmate Executed in Oklahoma Floyd Mori
If You Didn’t Exist, Nothing in The Universe Could Exist Frank T Bird
If You Only Do A Bit Of Planning For This Year, Do This Gereon Wellmann
There Is Now An Opportunity To Create Your Future, Want To Do So? Gregory Reece-Smith
The Quack Harry Hogg
S*x, Finances, Mindset, and Healing HealingLivMama
How I Earned $106 On Amazon as a Newbie! ASAD EDUCATE
Men are Warriors Biswajit Dutta
A Gift For My Mother Bogdan Munteanu
The Year of The Tiger Bond Wang
55K Followers, 500 Views Burk
What Lifestyle Causes Inflammation? Hello100
Eter-nity India Snow
Healthy Fats Isabel Noronha
Treating ‘Black’ People Equally is The Quickest Way to be called a “Racist”. Jaja Requa
AI-Generated Artwork Is Blowing Up The Economics of Art Javier Menéndez
Article-a-Day RESULTS Jeff Herring
Why Do We All Become Our Parents? Jeff Peirish
3 Lessons Learned From 6 Months of Freelance Writing Jennifer March, MS
My Psychic Reading Jennifer Pierce
You Don’t Have To Be a Medium Superstar To Get More Story Views Jessica Rabel
What Every Writer Should Know About Navigating Medium John Cunningham
Another New Beginning — A Poem John Meszaros
10 Amazing Facts About Planet Earth Jose Luis Ontanon Nunez
Brian Flores is about to Burn It All Down! Justin Stinnett
Brimstone Boxes. Kage Lockhart
Realm of Quarkopolis — Chapter 3 Kathy K
3 Lifechanging Google Sheets Tools for Complete Beginners Kiersten Campbell
10 Brilliant Books You Should Read Before You Kick The Bucket KL Simmons
Update on the largest darknet trial Klaus Wagner
Happy Birthday Data…ahem…Brent Spiner! kristin_missk
Developers On Medium, There’s One Specific Publication For You To Write For Kristina God
School Should Prepare Students for Life L.A. Fosner
Have You Ever Wondered What It Would Be like in a Room Full of Homeless Men? Lawson Wallace
Would You Become a Masochist to Be More Productive? Elon Musk Approves It! Lila Juno
Just start. Damn it. Linda Erskine
Is an Interest Obsessive Only if You Don’t Make Money from It? Lorrae G.
How To Walk Away From A Conversation You Don’t Like Lucia Landini
My Most Popular Stories — (Must Be Reasons For That) Maria Rattray
No Trace Of Mother And Child Marie A. Rebelle
The IRS Now Wants You to Use Their App — IRS2GO — For your Refund and Other Tax Stuff Mark Hake
1 sperm + 1 egg = 3 humans; plus 14 Original & Unusual “What if” questions Markus Scorelius
Stagnant Or Free? Marsha Hamby Savage
Find Out Where Your Website or Post Is Linked to: Backlinks Marvin Wendt
Clear Past Karma Blocking Abundance In Your Life Maytha
Embrace This & Reduce Stress Michele Thill
I Decided To Be Totally Honest For A Day — It Wasn’t What I Expected Mike Lewis
My Friend Has Three Children, But In Reality, He Has None Mila
Tooting Our Own Horns Misty Rae
I wish I were N. A. Kazi
5 Ways To Innovate and Improve Outcomes in Higher Education Nandita Abraham
Are Claps Really That Important? Nathalie Clair
Grades, Homework, And The Relentless Pursuit of Scholastic Normalcy Nick Stockton
How Beautiful Are You? Nona Nicklin
On Loving Yourself Noran Azmy
Deep Breathes Nova Binx
Hang On to Your Youthful Enthusiasms Øivind H. Solheim
21 Writing Markets That Pay At Least 100.00 a Piece — Some Pay Into The Thousands Pamela Kazmierczak
Fill-in-the-Blanks Game for Coming Up with Article Ideas Patricia Haddock
NFT are Medieval Indulgences Paul Coogan
Grateful More For the Rain than the Incessant Sun paulmartincurry
5 Things Dying People Regret Most Peter White
How I Made $464.77 With 30 Minutes Of Writing Prince Verma
15 Ridiculously Simple Tips to Get the Guy of Your Dreams to Finally Ask You Out Qasim Adam
The nutritional quality of plant protein sources: Rachel Pham
If You Can Do These Three Simple Things, You Will Be More Successful. Richard Appiah
What I Couldn’t Leave Behind Ripped Jeans Journey
Alternate Endings to 25 Famous Proverbs Rob Dods
Diary2021–Sept to Dec Robert Shaneyfelt
How Brazilian Singer Jão Went Viral on TikTok With ‘Idiota’ Rui Alves
How You Can Travel Free with Global Volunteer Programs Ryan Scott Shannon
Your Picture-Perfect K-Pop Idol Has a Heart-Wrenching Story To Tell S M Mamunur Rahman
The Secrets to Unlimited Productivity Sam Davies
How to Be Healthy When You’Re Busy Sergio Guardiola Herrador
How to Get Paid for Being a Patient Sharon Johnson
Still Water Shekhar Dewan
Don’t Be Afraid to Pursue Things You Are Unqualified For Sonam Lama
Are You a Beginner Writer Struggling with Writer`s Block? Story Taller
3-Steps Pragmatic Approach by Behavioral Scientist To Build Sustainable Habits Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
Save Your Likes for Us Tamil
If Women Want Gender Equality, Why Do They Expect Men to Pay? Tammy Bergstrom
Elon Musk Taught Us A Wisdom Lesson Once Again — I Really Hate Him The Sinfeld Times
What is Pretty Privilege? Thebusinessgraduate
Out Of The Darkness Into The Light Thesilkroads
Spotify: The Earnings, The Story and The Lessons Thijs Nijenhuis
Desire 2 Tomas Byrne
Bite Into Starfruit Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
How To Submit Your Miracle Stories Tree Langdon
Natural Help for Menstrual Issues TruHealth by Kasara
Labyrinth Night Ulf Wolf
Forget All the Buzz About the Comfort Zone, Here Are the Facts Valerio
Am I Not Good Enough For A Job? Vanessa Sanchez
Managing Our Government Veritas Civis
Seven Communication Tips for New Leaders To Get Good Results Faster Wendy Scott
Oopsie Goldberg Wes Putnam
Tarot Today (feat. Olden L. Smith) William Vincent Carleton
There Is A New Way For Writers To Be Connected, And I love It Xin Xin
Reasons to Own a Dog Yancy Dennis
This book change your life zen
In Case You Missed These Previously Featured Stories
Three Tips to Improve Cardiovascular Health Dr Mehmet Yildiz
“Strong Family Ties” or “Strong Family Lies” (or Something Like That) KL Simmons
A Coat of Time Arthur G. Hernandez
Real Estate Agents Can Be the Worst Humans in the World Tim Denning
Why You Should Enjoy Social Media But Not Get Addicted To it Dr. Preeti Singh
Meet Lanu Pitan
What It’s Like to Be in A Gender-Equal Marriage Anastasia Frugaard
Establishing Utopian America Qadir Abdus-Sabur, Ph.D.
Beware the Foot-Licking and Tooth-Pulling Demons from Persia Brian Loo Soon Hua
How I Healed Abdominal Bloating and Distension Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How I Earned $360 and 6,800 Views From A Single Story Viktor Marchev
Read This When You Want To Make Money Via Investing Richelle Délia, PhD
Breakups: 7 Reasons Why You Don’t Need Your Ex Back Rodolfo Urbano, CPA
How Reading Scientific Research Can Improve Your Writing: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben Rutt, PhD
On Trauma & Addiction: Lessons from a Defensive Iceberg and His Oversized Hat Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Shocking Stats About Non-Communicable Diseases Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Stop the Screen Wars: How to Make Screen Transitions a Little Less Painful Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
WHY are you asking me this? Dr Andrea Polzer
Times Change From Good Old Stiff Neck Ties To modern Gorpcore Dr. Preeti Singh
Meet Julius L. Evans ILLUMINATION
Meet Sufyan Maan ILLUMINATION
Invitation to My New Publication Illumination YouTube Coordinator
How Ali Abdaal Gets Millions Of YouTube Views Matt Lillywhite
Trending Stories
School Should Teach Us These Eight Simple Things (Yet It Doesn’t) Tim Denning
Fasting Can Change Brain Chemistry Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Reasons Why My (European) Husband and I Will Eventually Leave America Anastasia Frugaard
Ever Wonder Why We All Think So Many Useless, Involuntary Thoughts? David Gerken
Five Tips to Slow Down, Lose Fat, and Enjoy Life Dr Mehmet Yildiz
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