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Curated Collection #7
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Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION
Dementia: Perspectives on Korsakoff’s Syndrome & Vitamin B1 Deficiency Dr Mehmet Yildiz
5 Habits of People Who Reject Elon Musk Culture Tim Denning
School Should Teach Us These Eight Simple Things (Yet It Doesn’t)
Fresh Perspectives to Mindfulness and Spirituality ILLUMINATION featuring Marcus
Meet Josh Balerite Acol
Envy Demands A Lot From Our Brain Annelise Lords
The Story of Hayli Martenez and Her Lemonade Stand Jennifer Geer
What Your Imagination Can Do for You Bill Abbate
The Future Of Fashion In The World Dr. Preeti Singh
If You Only Make One Resolution This New Year, Make it This One J.J. Pryor
Do You Act Like A Buffalo Or Like A Cow? Nicole Linke
How to Swim Your Way Out of Bad Love Amy Sea
Your Perfect Partner Enters the Quantum Dream Worlds With You Manifesting Outcomes. Lady Jhershierra
Planning Ahead Is Better Than Improvising — Here’s 2 Rules To Keep In Mind A. Hamzeh
Teenager’s Guide To The Starvation Diet A. T. Steel
Bibliophile, Bookshelves, Biblichor A.H. Mehr
In Quiet, Tender Love Amy Christie
Christmas Cleanup: My Publication Experience I Want You to Know Andrey Pilipets
The Key to Finding Happiness in Less Than Five Minutes Per Day Ange Dim
Are You A Victim Of Choice Overload? Aniket Saraf
Stop Scratching Your Skin Benazir Albashir
A Writer’s Stories From the Road Brenda Mahler
Aaron Rodgers Saved My Toe Brian Dickens Barrabee
How to Let Go of a Resentment Bridget Stella Ruxton Wilson
Monoku Grocery Brooklyn Muse
The Journey To 10,000 Push Ups & 10,000 Squats Chris Cerra
I Ordered Off The Mariah Menu for McDonald’s 12 Days of Christmas & It Made My Life a Little More… Christine Lorelie
The Elder Cinis Viatorem
I was accepted into Princeton Cody Johnson
5 Reasons Why You Must Make That Decision You’ve Been Avoiding Now Crystal Garrett
What’s the Difference Between Realistic and Unrealistic Goals? Crystal Mathews
Busy Dr. Fatima Imam
How to Grow a Digital Business in 2022 Elizabeth Loberg
I Made 100 Sales on Etsy — Here Are Some Unique Takeaways Ezra Griffith
I Feel Fear To Read Your Article On Medium Fahim chughtai
A True Covid Experience Fanae-5, MS
Why I May Never Understand The Medium Stats Floyd Mori
Virgo Lactans Francesco Rizzuto
If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Badly George Blue Kelly
How To Start Your Own Podcast Haji
This Is Why I Ditched My 20,000 Subscriber YouTube Channel Hammad Hassan
Don’t Set a New Year’s Resolution Until Doing This (Please) Hudson Rennie
My Greeting Card For You Jane Harris
You should go outside Jay aware
I’m Not Here Yet — I Need Coffee Jennifer Pierce
Hot Coffee Jim McAulay🍁
On Facebook, I asked My Group to ‘Name a Book That Made You Cry Ugly’ Julius Evans
Let’s Close Out This Year and Enter the New Year with Loving Kindness Kat OM
Benefits of Being A Professional Dog Walker Kristen Kay Brady
What Will 2022 Offer You? Lanu Pitan
I can’t find my way out of a wet paper bag, but I drove across the country Alone Lawson Wallace
Reading For Entertainment and For Your Health Leigh Robbins
How To Use 100% Of Your Brain Christina Sponias
The Psychology of Success: How to Adopt the Mentality of the Winner Levente
Top 10 Board Games for Adults (21+) Live Love Quiz
One Behavior To Take if You Don’t Know How To Rebrand Yourself Lucia Landini
Spirituality Redefined Marcus
Snow: Beauty and Beast Margie Hord de Mendez
Pendulum. Mariam Ali
Stand Your Ground, Cause Arguments Michail Bukin
10 Inspirational Management Lessons I Didn’t Learn From TED Talks Michelle Middleton
Yes, Play With Your Food! Misty Rae
My dream date N. A. Kazi
What Are Your Word Prompts for 2022? Natasha Israni
Pessimistic yet positive Neil Mapes
The Closest Thing We Have To Time Travel Nicholas T Jackson
The Greatest Game You Could Ever Play Nico Sifiso
The Pagan(Part 1 of 2- “The Quagmire”) Nisshanth K
Medium Should Let Writers Chat Noah Nelson
Painting a Sunset Noah Nelson
Analysis of the Unabomber’s Manifesto (Part 1) Panos Michelakis
It’s Okay to Feel Discouraged Patricia Haddock
Are You Ready for What 2022 Is Bringing? Peter Shanosky
We believe videos more than people Pushpender Yadav
Dealing With Travel Anxiety Ram Vegiraju
A Game Of Hide And Seek Ravyne Hawke
Earth Questioned Contact — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
Nitric Oxide Nasal Sprays to Tackle COVID-19 Ruben Bouma
Happy New Year’s Reading Gifts for Friends and Followers Skippy von Alte Welt
That Arm Around My Waist Suma Narayan
The First 100 Tammy Bergstrom
Are We Trying to Escape Our Reality? Tavian Jean-Pierre
10 Reasons Why I Like Being Alone Most of the Time Terence Kong
A Gift I Got That Will Keep On Giving Until The Day I Die KL Simmons
A Gift I Got That Will Keep On Giving Until The Day I Die
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Why and How to Smash Your Garlic Tricia Schimpp
Why I Stay in Touch With My Ex-Husband’s Family Lola Rosario
Deaden Death Ulf Wolf
Can You Look at the Real Person Behind the Disguise? Utpal Kumar
What Are the Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease? Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
Chant from the Ancient Wenqi Glantz
Bring Internal Traffic To Your Dead Blogs On Medium Sara Marium
In Celebration of the Winds Yonke54
This Eckhart Tolle Trick Ends Breakup Pain! You, Me and Happiness
Little Boy Blue. Zuri Pommerenk
Ten Tips to Slow Down Dementia Dr Mehmet Yildiz
This Year I Read 20 Books: Here Is My Top 5 You Should Definitely Consider Viktor Marchev
Three Tips to Initiate Autophagy Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How Writers Can Use YouTube Creatively and Productively ILLUMINATION
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