Selected stories on ILLUMINATION-Curated
Collection of Curated Stories on ILLUMINATION
Selected stories by Joe Luca, hosted on ILLUMINATION-Curated
ILLUMINATION-Curated was created to provide a showcase for writers who have had their stories, articles, and poems curated in Medium topics. We are inviting other writers to curate a grouping of their own work and submit it to us for publication and in this way get the new readers who are being drawn to this publication, to have a look.
In the words of Dr Mehmet Yildiz: There are millions of stories on Medium. Unless we purposefully make them visible, our stories will be buried, and our readers will not have a chance to review them. Effective organizational and information management skills are essential for the success of Medium writers.
Here are several of mine that were curated over the past year or so. Thank you for coming by. 😊
Art of Doing Nothing
Distributed to: #Self
Doing nothing is more Art than Science. All of us are programmed to keep moving; some faster than others, but always in motion. Always thinking about things to do, or actually out there doing them. This article is about my life-long struggle with Doing Nothing and how I finally overcame my fear of it.
Why Do We Hate Mondays?
Distributed to #Writing
From early childhood memories, Mondays were always the day after the weekend ended. The day we returned to school and were once again launched into what others wanted us to do. Mondays became the scapegoat, the bad day in the week that never amount to anything much. This article is an effort to set the record straight.
Tales From The Underground
Distributed to #Philosophy #Travel #Self
Secret maps and messages, riddles written on ancient walls. We all think about these things at some point in our lives. Discovering a cache that saves the day. A message from someone famous that only we knew about. Or a simple story that unlocks an idea or two within us. This article was my tale of a friend of a friend who found all of the above in a dark stairway, lost in an unfinished part of a San Francisco subway station.
Writing Without Rules
Distributed to #Writing
Writers read. Often and about most anything. We consume rules and suggestions like M&Ms, in the hopes they will transform what we write into what lots of others will read. We are anxious about our words and how they will be met. Like parents letting loose of their children’s hand on the first day of school, we worry. But not all rules should be followed. Here is my take on why.
I Lost My Father, but Found My Dad
Distributed to #Family
I lost my Dad at dusk, on a Saturday evening, July 14, 1966. His body fell in a local restaurant parking lot, never to rise again. I was 13 years-old. We all lose someone — eventually. The loss aches and leaves us detached from that part of our life. Years later, when I found some old photographs of my Dad living life long before he ever met me, it started my journey to find him once again. This story explains how it happened.
Hello, Your Past is Calling
I posited a scenario where, out of the blue, an old cell phone is delivered to your home and with it a short message. You have one call to make and only one, to anybody in your past, dead or alive. Dial their number if you know it. Dial their name if you don’t. They will answer. Good luck.
What Would You Do?
Happiness is Not What You Have, But What You Do
Distributed to #Self
If most of us had our way, Happiness would be an item found in most department stores or online, at selected websites. Easy to find, easy to purchase. But Happiness is not what you have, never has been. It’s not in your collection of things in the room off the kitchen. It’s not in the man cave or the rec room just above the bar. You can’t frame it, box it or bring it out once a year on Groundhog’s Day and show the folks what it looks like. In this article, I explain why that is.
Joe Luca is writer and editor for ILLUMINATION and a published author and writer of children’s stories, short fiction, non-fiction articles, screenplays and poetry. Publications include Child’s Life, Children’s Playmate and others. Thank you for stopping by.
