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About Me — Kyomi O’Connor

San Diego. Author/Writer. Universalist. Japanese Immigrant. Peace Maker. Life-time Student. Practicing Buddhist. Children’s dentist. Believer and Activist of Love, Hope, Courage & Potentials. Hello, and thank you for visiting my “About Me” page! My name is Kyomi O’Connor. You may be thinking, What a unique name! Yes, it’s a combination…

About Me

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About Me — Kyomi O’Connor
About Me — Kyomi O’Connor
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The Brain is a Noodle

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Patrick

you are my first and the last roommate — Patrick — you’re the first and the last roommate I had in my life It took our past lives That day through the window you’d tossed a message before we met Later you confessed you’d known me in your dream long before I entered your life Then the door opened

Inspiration

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Patrick
Patrick
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Equality Includes You

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Out of Africa

By the end of this year, almost half of Americans will have completed the genetic test. — Have you taken a genetic test yet? Due to Ancestry®, 23andMe®, MyHeritageTM, and other brands, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing has wildly become popular in the last few years. The test user number in the States has grown from below 10 million in 2017 to over 55 million in 2020. This…

Genealogy

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Out of Africa
Out of Africa
Genealogy

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ILLUMINATION

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Healing

I felt like I’d come out of the cave and was standing on the sand overlooking the light on the ocean’s calm tides. — March 11 of this year marked the tenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake that devastated Japan’s northeast region. It wasn’t just the earthquake but the subsequent tsunamis that took 20,000 lives; today, over two thousand people remain missing. Cleaning up one of the tsunami’s aftermath, the nuclear core…

Healing

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Healing
Healing
Healing

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ILLUMINATION-Curated

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Tidying Up

The COVID pandemic is one of the worst catastrophes in human history. To date, in the United States alone, over 0.64 million people have lost their lives. Over thirty-nine million people have been reported being COVID-positive. Now the vaccine has been available but still, the situations are not easy to…

Clarity

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Tidying Up
Tidying Up
Clarity

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ILLUMINATION

·Dec 23, 2022

Greetings!

May our days be brighter and enlightened with our small intention and initiation of love. — May we and our loved ones be in moments of love and hope. Thank you very much for visiting and reading my essays. I’d like to express my appreciation for your patience and support throughout another year. This year as part of my life work, I finally published my debut…

Illumination

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Greetings!
Greetings!
Illumination

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The Lark

·Sep 21, 2022

My Book — I am Your Mirror

An unshakable version of you emerges — My book* — I am a mirror How effectively you use me depends on how open you want to be As you leave your view and expectation behind, the words inside the book emerge and whisper in your ears They would knock on the doors you placed shut on the…

The Lark

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My Book — I am Your Mirror
My Book — I am Your Mirror
The Lark

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ILLUMINATION

·Sep 5, 2022

It’s the Time!

A Sky of Infinite Blue will be published in two days. — It’s the time for not only me but all of us to celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime moment. My debut memoir, A Sky of Infinite Blue will be published in two days, on September 6th. Then passing the date, the word, “will” will no longer be accurate, so I will tweak it…

Illumination

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It’s the Time!
It’s the Time!
Illumination

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ILLUMINATION

·Aug 15, 2022

Hello, it’s ME!

– it sometimes whispers to your heart, and other times it stimulates to make you feel like screaming — Here in San Diego, I’ve just begun to feel the slightest touch and the earliest entry of autumn. I love this sense of transition as if I see the lightest brush stroke on a piece of white rice paper. …

Illumination

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Hello, it’s ME!
Hello, it’s ME!
Illumination

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ILLUMINATION

·Jul 7, 2022

Believing in Our Future

Love and sincerity, rather than fears, bring us hope and a better understanding of us, humans. I believe in our goodness, our potential, and our future. The recent news on the overturn of the Roe v Wade abortion law shook the country. After 50 years of the constitutional protection of…

Illumination

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Believing in Our Future
Believing in Our Future
Illumination

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Kyomi O'Connor

Kyomi O'Connor

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Author, Universalist, Lifetime student, Friend, Japanese immigrant, DMD, Ph.D., Please join me at http://kyomioconnor.com or @kyomioconnor on FB, and LinkedIn

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