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<h2>People Are Still Smiling, You Just Can’t See It</h2>
<div><h3>The moments behind the masks</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="0b8d">#Kindness — Julia E Hubbel</h2><div id="f1bb" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/cultivating-kindness-in-a-time-of-terror-f2810e6c4a72">
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<h2>Cultivating Kindness in a Time of Terror</h2>
<div><h3>Courtesy, respect, graciousness are all survival food</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="01eb">#Nature — Marlane Ainsworth</h2><div id="dac3" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/a-trembling-wonder-of-the-world-8c897dbdc78f">
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<h2>A Trembling Wonder of the World</h2>
<div><h3>Quaking aspens</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="f510">#Writing Tips — Paul Myers MBA</h2><div id="5583" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/3-surprising-lessons-i-learned-by-writing-on-illumination-b0db83842269">
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<h2>3 Surprising Lessons I Learned by Writing on Illumination</h2>
<div><h3>Data insights that shed a light on my writing</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="9b39">#Life Purpose — KeepingItRealWithAnnick</h2><div id="82bc" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/lifes-purpose-is-not-happiness-but-contribution-261d7e2100f9">
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<h2>Life’s Purpose is Not Happiness But Contribution</h2>
<div><h3>Contribution being the open gate to a sustainable state of joy, wellness and contentment.</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="1234">#Consciousness — Alexander Cares</h2><div id="6fbd" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/tonight-come-together-dc0a93609e63">
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<h2>TONIGHT, COME TOGETHER!!!!!</h2>
<div><h3>I’m sure everyone is aware of the global crises, COVID-19. What started simply as a new strand of virus has now become…</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="2c95">#Community — Karen Madej 💛</h2><div id="dcef" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/have-you-noticed-an-exciting-change-in-your-illumination-stats-98e2b59d4d03">
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<h2>Have You Noticed an Exciting Change in Your ILLUMINATION Stats?</h2>
<div><h3>Let’s convert our views to reads, shed our cocoons and become butterflies!</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="44f2">#Fitness — Julia E Hubbel</h2><div id="2b00" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-get-your-fitness-back-if-youve-lost-it-1ef7d9b3ac6">
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<h2>How to Get Your Fitness Back if You’ve Lost It</h2>
<div><h3>Why muscle memory, patience, faith and a rollicking sense of humor are your four besties</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="1aec">#Personal Development — Melody Campbell</h2><div id="4e5b" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/read-write-act-connect-grow-3dc2f9edf28f">
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<h2>Read, Write, Act, Connect & Grow</h2>
<div><h3>A Mental Model | Solve Problems | Share Gifts | Grow Together</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="aa8c">#Society — Lisa Wathen</h2><div id="e90c" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/post-pandemic-cultural-fallout-6fbe4b53b945">
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<h2>Post Pandemic Cultural Fallout</h2>
<div><h3>What will the landscape of the New Normal look like?</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="8885">#Fear — Daniella Mini</h2><div id="ea34" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/are-your-fears-justified-a980268221ee">
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<h2>Are Your Fears Justified?</h2>
<div><h3>A reflection on Seneca’s famous words on fear</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="cac1">#Acceptance — Marlane Ainsworth</h2><div id="e7b9" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/do-you-feel-out-of-place-19013459e902">
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<h2>Do You Feel Out of Place?</h2>
<div><h3>You are where you are meant to be</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="56cf">#Parenting — Mark Oehlert</h2><div id="e561" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/coronavirus-tips-essential-parenting-skills-for-the-covid-19-crisis-b98c13dc60a5">
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<h2>Coronavirus Tips: Essential Parenting Skills for the COVID-19 Crisis</h2>
<div><h3>How will your kids remember you when they look back on the “Great Coronavirus Pandemic of 2010?”</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="a4cd">#Diversity — Julia E Hubbel</h2><div id="b348" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/my-heartbreak-is-different-from-your-heartbreak-please-dont-judge-me-438c126839b1">
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<h2>My Heartbreak is Different From Your Heartbreak. Please Don’t Judge Me.</h2>
<div><h3>My stress is different from your stress.</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="2e08">#Eclecticism— Meet an eclectic writer on ILLUMINATION Terry Mansfield</h2><div id="2683" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/hi-im-terry-mansfield-and-i-specialize-in-eclecticism-bc85a08371ba">
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<h2>Hi! I’m Terry Mansfield and I Specialize in Eclecticism</h2>
<div><h3>Here are some things about me you probably don’t know (and maybe don’t even care to know; sorry about that).</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="1232">#Creativity — Meet a creative writer of ILLUMINATION CJ Kowalski</h2><div id="8ef7" class="link-block">
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<h2>Pleasure to Meet All of You</h2>
<div><h3>Telling my story with some photos</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="7b80">#Morality — René Junge</h2><div id="b0b5" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/what-the-categorical-imperative-means-for-your-life-da27f977e072">
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<h2>What The Categorical Imperative Means For Your Life</h2>
<div><h3>Everyone has undoubtedly heard of the categorical imperative, according to Immanuel Kant. But what does that have to do…</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="af1e">#Motivation — Rasheed Hooda</h2><div id="bacf" class="link-block">
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<h2>How to Use Your Challenges to Motivate Yourself</h2>
<div><h3>A 3-step formula for personal growth.</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="846d">#Writing Therapy — Dr Mehmet Yildiz</h2><div id="04d5" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/therapeutic-value-of-writing-7ea97415adc">
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<h2>Therapeutic Value of Writing</h2>
<div><h3>How communities can motivate and empower writers</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="49a4">#Mental Health — George J. Ziogas</h2><div id="0314" class="link-block">
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<h2>9
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<div><h3>The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="0d4e">#Excitement — Stacey Christiansen</h2><div id="52c2" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/30-days-to-joy-one-emotion-at-a-time-23ed78ca8799">
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<h2>30 Days to Joy ~ One Emotion At A Time</h2>
<div><h3>Day 8 — Excitement Rocks!</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="954f">#Claps on Medium — Chrissie Morris Brady Ph.D.</h2><div id="6bf1" class="link-block">
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<h2>Multi Clapping</h2>
<div><h3>It’s a thing!</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="6ec9">#Writers on Writing — P.G. Barnett</h2><div id="ab20" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/i-used-to-be-a-somebody-ad3113d9a879">
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<h2>I Used To Be A Somebody</h2>
<div><h3>Ways To Practically Survive The Fall</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="1ef9">#Self Thoughts — Mike Schoenhofer</h2><div id="68d9" class="link-block">
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<h2>Thoughts by Myself #3</h2>
<div><h3>Life is Changing</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="afba">#Smarter Choices — Annelise Lords</h2><div id="e359" class="link-block">
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<h2>Smarter Choices</h2>
<div><h3>Illumination</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="8f0a">#Sustainability Livia Dabs</h2><div id="cc76" class="link-block">
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<h2>30 Day to Sustainability-Day 3: Planned Obsolescence</h2>
<div><h3>It was 2016 in the middle of the summer. After I returned from work, I told my daughter to get a swimsuit and let’s go…</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h1 id="d17c">Poetry</h1><p id="f4d5">Here are the selected poems from our talented poets.</p><h2 id="8903">Tom Byers</h2><div id="c522" class="link-block">
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<h2>A Kiss Beginning</h2>
<div><h3>Love Poem from Way Back</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="760f">Kevin Buddaeus</h2><div id="b08c" class="link-block">
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<h2>Second Life</h2>
<div><h3>A Poem</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="b9e7">Harley King</h2><div id="45a5" class="link-block">
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<h2>Angelic Visits</h2>
<div><h3>A Story-Poem</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="d6ae">Gurpreet Dhariwal</h2><div id="c3d0" class="link-block">
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<h2>Power of Words</h2>
<div><h3>A Haiku</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="ba8b">Salam Khan</h2><div id="c299" class="link-block">
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<h2>Lost in Divine’s Love</h2>
<div><h3>Let me be the way I am.</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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<h2>Endless Inward Journey</h2>
<div><h3>17 words</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="b285">Chrissie Morris Brady Ph.D.</h2><div id="c693" class="link-block">
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<h2>Poem</h2>
<div><h3>In Space or Spaced Out</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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<h2>Poem</h2>
<div><h3>Best</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="2fee">Deborah Barchi</h2><div id="f3f3" class="link-block">
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<h2>Illusion</h2>
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<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h2 id="ae32">Terry Mansfield</h2><div id="94c1" class="link-block">
<a href="https://readmedium.com/marriage-marathon-5b12e726f83d">
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<h2>Marriage Marathon</h2>
<div><h3>(a marital haiku)</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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<a href="https://readmedium.com/retribution-33e2cfa1daf2">
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<h2>RETRIBUTION</h2>
<div><h3>A satire</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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</div><h1 id="d3d7">Fiction</h1><p id="0552"><a href="undefined">Robert Nelson</a></p><div id="a34d" class="link-block">
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<h2>Again, Damn It! Chapter Seven</h2>
<div><h3>My grandmother is quiet on the drive to wherever it is we’re going. She doesn’t come to visit me for all the time I was…</h3></div>
<div><p>medium.com</p></div>
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