Tag: found

I’m waiting to be found is a simple phrase to describe the whole mood of my heart that every time the crescent comes, the birds next to my bedroom window can hear my sigh. 3x sighs just to end all the chaotic things resulting from the completion of the curiosity that has been lingering in me f...

Whatever your age, it feels unpleasant to look back and only recall challenges, struggles, and troubles. Imagine how the unpleasantness compounds after six decades of lived experience. This likely explains why I rarely looked back at my life. I didn’t want to open the Pandora’s box of...

Almost ten years ago, I got lost in the woods. In all honesty, I don’t remember if it was intentional or not. I did go wandering, after all, into the darkest places, filled with trees and brambles and the kinds of sounds that only creatures with very big teeth would make. So was i...

I spent the entire first half of my life trying. I tried so hard to be the best child, best student, the perfect wife, perfect mother. Being a parent is not easy — children expect you to accept anything they come up with and carry any load. When they’re young, I think that’s how...

When I was in my twenties, I collected objects I found on the sidewalks of Los Angeles. An early find was a hand-written letter from a mother to her incarcerated son explaining why she wouldn’t bail him out of jail. “I have the money,” she wrote. “But you need to learn a less...

I gave you a clue on the title of this story. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be branding my curated lists because, let’s face it, ILLUMINATION’s curation game is strong — 50 collections in a jiffy! My audience adores these curated treasures, so in addition to my writing escapades, I...

On June 6, the National Police located within the walls of a house in Torremolinos (Spain) the remains of Sibora Gagani, the 22-year-old girl of Italian nationality who had been missing since 2014. It is known that in 2011 the young woman moved with Marco, her boyfriend, to the coast of the s...

The final departing words of Charles Caldwell. Charles Caldwell, a blacksmith born in Mississippi during the 1830s, became the first Black person to kill a White person and be found “not guilty” by the courts. When Caldwell was born, slavery was an integral part of the economic and so...

When you think about concentration camps, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Nazi Germany. But, America had a concentration camp of its own. And its story is so horrifying, it’s been erased from history. This is the Devil’s Punch Bowl, in Natchez, Mississippi. From abo...

When I was 5 my sister found me marking out all the black children in a Sears catalogue of playground equipment with a big red X. She told me later in life that in that moment she taught me this wasn’t something we did to people…X them out. I don’t remember that moment, ...

However, groundbreaking research by Corina Amor Vegas and her colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) suggests that the key to combating aging might lie within our own bodies, specifically in our immune cells. The team’s research revolves around a type of white blood cell known a...

The Mediterranean basin is one of the most historically significant regions in Europe. It is where civilizations shaping the culture and identity of the entire continent emerged. Recent findings by researchers indicate that the potential of the sea was recognized long before the establishment of the...

The Mediterranean basin is one of the most historically significant regions in Europe. It is where civilizations shaping the culture and identity of the entire continent emerged. Recent findings by researchers indicate that the potential of the sea was recognized long before the establishment of the...

I have decided: to be reborn as a hearty sapling, raised by a forest fam — into an excellent tree! She will be called Sylvi! In the canopy of whom, birds will nest, and in its penumbral shade, people will rest — inspired to write, compose, and sing songs — I am convinced. The se...