Featured Stories
Outstanding Stories — Volume 86
Selected stories from top writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated
Dear Readers and Writers,
I have been busy for several months and spent very little time on Medium. The only activity was to review and publish a few stories. Last month, I posted only a single article as the Ukraine situation was close to my heart. I also compiled editor bios featured by ILLUMINATION.
But now, I am on leave for a few weeks and plan to create visibility for this unique publication, posting curated collections of our memorable stories. It is a very tedious task, but it is worth the effort.
Initially, I selected three stories from prolific writers, but the article was not manageable, so I had to reduce it to a single piece per writer contributing to Illumination Curated recently.
I will add the remaining ones to upcoming collections. You might access previous volumes at this link.
I had three goals in mind when preparing this collection. The first goal is to give exquisite content to our loyal readers. The second goal is to create visibility for the work of our experienced writers.
And the third one is to provide a valuable sample collection for new writers to learn from accomplished writers and gain experience. Our chief editor and owner, Dr Mehmet Yildiz strive for cross-pollinating writers at all levels.
We had a few new editors filling the gap when I was away. Dr. Yildiz wanted me to acknowledge the additional support of Dr John Frederick Rose, Julius Evans, Jennifer Geer, Dr. Preeti Singh, Arlo Hennings, Ph.D., and Marcus aka Gregory Maidman, in addition to the other 24 editors who have been contributing for two years investing their precious time.
Recent submissions to ILLUMINATION-Curated
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What Is Happening in Ukraine and Why It Matters for the World
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Here Is What Happened When I Experimentally Initiated Autophagy Decades Ago
Lose Visceral Fat by Understanding the Intricacies of Six Critical Hormones
Dr John Frederick Rose
Origins.
Dr Michael Heng
How I Attained the Wabi-Sabi Mind
Brian E. Wish, PhD
Why The Filibuster Is Here To Stay
Steve Beller, PhD
Fundamental Connectedness, Differences, and Survival
Douglas Giles, PhD
Can You Be Anything You Want?
Dr. Deborah M. Vereen-Family Engagement Influencer
Parents Must Believe For Their Children To Achieve
Technology Hits
Hand-Picked Articles #64
Britni Pepper
The Three Faces of Jesus
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Painting Pictures with Words
Chelsea Mandler MAT
At Your Service- Senior Editor
Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Why Is Magnesium Not Just Another Mineral?
Carol Price
Instant Radiance
Shirley Willett
Time Merges, Moving from Fifth to the Sixth Dimension
Anastasia Frugaard
How to Brainwash a Nation: A Manual
Caroline de Braganza
How to Kill a Writer’s Blood and Sweat With One Simple Click
Cal Axe
5 Steps I Followed to Find My Passion and Turn It Into A Profitable Side Hustle
Crystal Jackson
Why Staying Friends with Exes isn’t in Your Best Interest
Patrick OConnell
Are You Ready For Technocratic Population Control And Compliance?
Aamna I. Rizvi
Kicks for Kings in 2021
Agnes Laurens
Life is One Big Lesson and We Are Responsible for These Lessons
AJ Krow
Four Tools That Will Help You Better Learn a Language
Alfonso Guerrero
On Managing FOMO
Alle C. Hall
WINNER: The Richard Hugo House New Works Competition
Allison Gaines
Why America’s Obsession With Seeing Jussie Smollett Punished is Disturbing
America Zed⚡
24 Hours
Amy Christie
Flower of One Beginning
Anaïs Schlienger
22 Books for 2022 — A Personal Selection
Anastasia Soul Gypsy
My Spunkalicious 50 Shades Of Grey ~ Only Your My Mr. K
Andrew Jazprose Hill
The Awakening of Paulina Porizkova
Ankit Das
3 Simple Tricks That Can Improve Your Life Manifolds
Anna Marques
Got a Screenplay in Your Drawer or Hard Drive?
Anne Spollen
What to Do and What NOT To Do When A Loved One Is Hospitalized for Covid
Anthony Signorelli
The Upcoming Experiment in Degrowth — What Can We learn?
Arthur Keith
“Look, Up in the Sky, It’s a… Cloud!”
Aza Y. Alam
DDT in Breast Milk, Microplastics in the Foetus, Pesticides in Food, Airborne Pollution, Radiation…
Ben Areno
The Importance of Daydreaming in the Creative Process
Bill Abbate
A New Frame of Mind
Bill Myers
Extraction & Dental Implant — Traumatic Expectations, Serene Reality
Birgit Pohl
“Diversity slows us down!” –“We are only hiring the best!”
Biswanath Datta
Crossing the Bridge
Blaine Coleman
Liberty, Chapter IV of a New Novel
Borut
(I) What Do Food Preservatives Do to My Body?
Brian Dickens Barrabee
Aaron Rodgers, Poor Little Rich Boy
Brian Feutz
How to Be as Happy as the Happiest People in the World
Crystalclearcandace
The Doctor is No Longer in the House
The Doctor is No Longer in the House
Howard Hesseman was the nicest celebrity I ever met.
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Cypriano Mokobia
Mental Health
Daniel
Russia to “Purge” Ukraine
Daniel Hopper
15 Tips to Help Your Wedding Run Smoothly
Daniel McIntosh
How You Can Be Happy in a World Devoted to Selling Pleasure
David Mokotoff
At This Point in the Pandemic, We Should Adopt Commonsense Mask Policies
David Pahor
Fight the lies of the other-thinkers
David Spero Rn
Stand With Russia And Ukraine
David Todd McCarty
Let The Bubbly Flow
Dawn Bevier
Why You Have to Hurt Before You Can Be Happy
Debbie's Reflection
Crazy Crab Restaurant in Kissimmee will Delight You
Deborah Barchi
The Memory of Clay
Debra Groves Harman
Five Years Ago, A Blue-Haired Woman Nearly Messed Up My Camino, And I Had To Ditch Her
Dennis De Silva
How To Be Unstoppable In Producing Content
Denys Opria - Ukrainian
How Writing Affects Your Life
Desiree Driesenaar
How Do We Design Business Models for Planet, People, and Prosperity?
Donn K. Harris
Truth, Fiction and Reality: Can We Fight Our Way Out of the Confusion?
Donna Lynn
And a Small Child shall Lead Us
Douglas Pilarski
Girl Power — 1918
Dr. Adam Tabriz
Internationalism, Isolationism, or Realistic Internationalistic Objectivity
Duncan Klein
The Day Everything Changed
Eira Braun-Labossiere 🌻
The Thing About Democracy
Emmanuel A. Anderson
7 Traits of Highly Creative People That Differentiate Them From Everyone
EP McKnight, MEd
Police Officers Found Guilty and Complicit
Erin King
How To Cope With The Inevitable Dry Spells Of Daily Writing
Fatima Martinez
An Accessories Designer Shares The Process of Making Her Art
Fatunla Samuel
4 Unpleasant Places I Learned The Most Unbelievable Life Lessons
Floyd Mori
Asian Americans Are Facing More Racism Since COVID
Francesco Filippazzo
Quarantined in the Bahamas for Almost 2 weeks
Francine Fallara
I Still Miss Your Big Hard Worker Squeezing Hands on My Face
Frank Moone
The Age of Unreason
G Correia
The Problem With Interracial Dating… The Parents
Gadwall Jackson
Trump’s Dictator Morality
Gavin Sher
The Nature of Knowledge
Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers
Stop With the Expectations
Growth Lodge
The Top 20 Entrepreneurial Books Of All Time
Hassam Gul
An Aspen Tree
Helen Cassidy Page
What Does It Take To Resurrect A Writing Practice?
Henryk A. Kowalczyk
Ukraine — the world is watching
Ian Cunnold
Eggs of Iron
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Being A Creative Is Serious Business
Indra Asserfea
Did Medium Send you this?
Iván Melicoff Abril
Turpentine Smile
Jack Krier
The Real End Goal of Self-Improvement — And Why Most People Fail
Jaja Requa
Victimization: Did you Know Black People Enslaved their Own?
James Jordan
Riding the Rio Grande
Jason Ward
David Bowie and William Boyd Invented an Artist and Hoaxed the Art World
Jeff Herring
10 Stress Busters You Can Use Right Away
Jennifer Geer
War in Ukraine: Who Are the 8 Republicans to Vote Against Suspending Trade With Russia?
Jill Ebstein
Stories of Three Shero Scientists
Joe Luca
“I’d Like to Make a Humble Request for A Donation Today Before I Make an Even More Humble Request…
John Cunningham
Find a Quiet Place
John Teehan
Five Simple Strategies for a Less Stressful Year
Julia E Hubbel
Dear Reader, Part III. My River Takes a Sharp Bend.
Julie Nyhus MSN, FNP-BC
Why I Stay In Nursing
Julius Evans
Heavenly Woman, earthly man
Karen Madej
Who Misses Kisses and Cuddles?
Karthick Nambi
How To Start With Zero Motivation
Keira Fulton-Lees
Prime Time Argument
Kelly Fox
A Warning from My Near-Death Experience
Kenan Kolday
Satyagraha — The Power of Passive Resistance From Mahatma Gandhi
Kenneth Silvestri
The Benefits of Ecological Thinking
Kevin Farran
Time is Ticking, You Only Have a Month
Kim McKinney
Kimberly Thomas
The Ride
Kristina Segarra
The Hidden Dangers of Technology
Lady Jhershierra
By Flowing Easily and Quietly, the Path is Revealed.
Lawson Wallace
That morning I was lying on my sofa, was working that night, or so I thought.
Leah Njoki
Life Truths Every 30-Year-Old Woman Needs To Hear Over and Over Again
Lester Golden
Ukraine’s Citizen vs Russia’s Serf Army
Livia Dabs RN,MSc
Confession Of A Peds Nurse: Why Did I Choose To Have Only One Child?
LM
The Bend In The Branch
Margaret's Reflections
How To Make Running a Habit
Maria Cross
Cancer: The Carbohydrate Connection
Maria Rattray
Many Good, Innocent People Languish In Our Prison Systems. This Is So Wrong.
Mark C. Titi
How to Paint a Story Nonprofit Donors Will Love
Martha Manning, Ph.D.
“Don’t Talk To Me Like That!”
Martin D. Hirsch
A New Year’s Resolution for Marketers: We’re All Surveyed Out. Leave Us the F Alone!
Martine Weber
Immaru Gi
May More
Sugar Versus Sweeteners
Melinda Blau
7 Simple Strategies for Wrangling and Replenishing Your Connections in the Wake of COVID
Melissa Kalt, MD
7 Monumental Ways a Narcissist is the Master of Manipulation
Michael Burg, MD (AKA Medium Michael Burg)
If You’ve Ever Wanted to Read Everything This Old, White, Jewish Doctor Has Written About Racism
Michael Patanella
Lessons From A Broken Heart
Michele Thomas
Living Free
Mike Pole
Did Putin Really Say That?
Mila
How My Dog “Illuminated” The “Ghost Ship”
Mpdoc
What Is Sleep Apnea And How Can You Get Relieved?
Murtaza Ali
I Don’t Know When People Decided That Scribbling 15 Mediocre One-Liners Is Good Writing
Myriam Ben Salem🦋
Expecting Others to Mind-Read Me Drastically Contributed to Jeopardizing My Relationships
Napoleon
What Happens to Your Story When It’s Read for 11 Hours?
Neha Sandhir S
Create A Mindful Friday
Nicole Linke
3 Ways To Tune Your Brain For Supercharged Creativity
Nihan Küçükural
How to Turn Off Google Lens and Search Google By Image Again!
Nkeonye Judith Izuka-Aguocha
This Is How I Cured My Sadness
Obinna Uruakpa
The Bluff of the Bully
Øivind H. Solheim
Be still. Yin Yoga
Olivia Fisher
Employers, please stop sending people to resilience programs
Paul Myers MBA
From Thunderous Gallop To A Whisper
Paul Thomas Zenki
Has the Time Come for a Biblical Immigration Policy?
Pear Vee
Why Breakups Give Me Peace
Peter Ling
Celebrating or Understanding Dr. King?
The Power of Knowledge
“By 2030, Western Values Will Have Been Tested To the Breaking Point.”
PseuPending (Seu)
6 Essential Tastes that Make You Wonder
Randy Shingler
Choose A Path
Randy Wolken
Is “Someday” A Real Day?
Rebecca Romanelli
When will we wake up from our Nuclear Weapons Nightmares?
Rebecca Stevens A.
My White Relocation Agent Told Me A Black Woman, Not To Move Into A Black Neighborhood
Regina Clarke
Enchantment — Einaudi and Philip Glass
Remington Write
Stacks of Boxes
René Junge
Is TikTok Really Addictive You Bet!
Rich Sobel
Crafting My Land Acknowledgement
Rob Hourmont
This 1 Single Exercise Will Make You as Fit As You Can Ever Wish to Be
Roger A. Reid, Ph.D.
War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
Roger Himes Esquire
Short Thoughts for Busy People #5
Ronald Franklin
Why You Should Be Writing for HubPages
Rui Alves 🇺🇦
Mindful Living 101 in 2022
Sahir Dhalla
There Is Too Much Suffering For A Benevolent God To Exist
Samra
Earn For Your Writing ($100 Per Article)
Samrat Dutta
Why Journalists and Whistleblowers Can Rely on Onymochat
Sanjeev Yadav
Age Is Not Just a Number. It Is a Reminder
Age Is Not Just a Number. It Is a Reminder
And some other truths we learn every birthday.
medium.com
Sara Marium
The Fastest Ways to Get More Clients and Make More $$$
Sarah K. Butterfield
3 Strategies To Help You (Finally) Reach Your Big Goals
Savannah Worley
When Can White People Say the N-Word?
Segun Ojediran, MSc
4 Life-changing Millionaire Habits You Should Never Ignore
Shadowgnosis
Racist Baby
Sherrie Hurd Hyatt
Covid-19 Came, but Did it Leave?
Stuart Englander
Monthly Travel Log:
Suellen Wheless Estes
Best Strategies for a Profitable Year
Suntonu Bhadra
Do You Have a List of Things That You Wished You Could Firmly Believe 10 Years Ago?
Suzanne Johnson
What Kind of Travel Writer Are You?
Suzanne Paschall
8 Inevitable Social Trends the Pandemic Put into Hyperdrive (Part II)
Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D.
Statism or Social Cooperation?
Teresa Sochacka Renton
End of Year Feedback for my Husband
Teressa P.
#LongCovid, Healing and Fighting the Funky Fog of Grief
Tina Viju
Will Smith Won The Best Actor Oscar.
Tom Handy
11 Ways to Be a Better Writer After You Have Tried Everything
Toni Crowe
Trapped on the Toilet with No Panties on, I had a Pain Breakdown
Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
Weld Like a Girl
Ubaid siddiqui
Benefits of the keto diet
Ugur Akinci
What Dreams Should You Have When You’re 72?
Ulf Wolf
Joy
Vi Valenzuela
Dear White Folks: Stop Feeling Guilty and Defensive about Racism, Practice the Following Instead
Viktor Marchev
Is It True That Cannabis Helps With Athletic Performance?
Walter Rhein
What Worked and What Didn’t in December of 2021
Wessam Saddik MA
Venom: The New Miracle of Medicine
Wilson da Silva
Venom: The New Miracle of Medicine
Susie Kearley
Break into Freelance Writing & Use it to Promote your Business
Gal Mux
Was Elon Musk Right To Fire His Assistant Who Asked For A Raise?
Citizen Upgrade
5 Life Lessons from the Film ‘Citizen Kane’
5 Life Lessons from the Film ‘Citizen Kane’
This timeless classic is still relevant today
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