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.
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My name is Kyomi O’Connor. You may be thinking, What a unique name! Yes, it’s a combination…
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
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…
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…
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…
Love
*
Gratitude
comes out of
nowhere above my neck
but here from my feet, the trunk,
and the heart where all the pains and
the bloodshed have found the final places,
turning to radiate the warmth from within
I think of you, wherever you’re in this globe,
differences have no…
A Poem
A fall dove from the universe
The small drip of water awakened me
Through mountains and valleys, I did traverse
Lost in time and space, it did strike me out of the blue
A plunge befell out of nowhere
The trickle of liquid undulated in ripple
carried me to the…
Floating on the waves of the ocean,
the sun and the sky were above me.
Burnt orange in the eyes of the shadow,
pulsating into a flow of crimson red
The sky and the ocean, and the horizon
in between, fading afar as I was drifting. …
Do you know the difference between these terms? I’d been using both of them for a while. But to be honest, until recently, when I attended a class that addressed the issues of health disparities, I hadn’t fully understood them before. Anyone who believes in humanity should…
The Louvre
Perpetual nattering and laughter
of men in Madame Pompadour
and women in Marie Antoinette,
Masquerades of the French monarch,
heavily sloshed spun around in a waltz
on the floor of the Louvre Palace.
Large blossoms of robes a la Francaise
in coral, canary, crimson, and Carolina,
Rococo Medieval suits with…
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