Miquette, Author at Origin of OM

June 28, 2018

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Three fingers = To-tall-y. Four = In-fin-i-ty

You’ll remember Kira Brown-Augdal aka Kira Fierce, we hope. No longer with us, but forever in our hearts and our memories. Lost to DIPG, a devastating […]

April 20, 2018

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Inspiration

For kids, against DIPG; feel that connection

Luke Stewart. Julianna Sayler. Parker Monhollon. Ronil Mehta. Kaleigh Lau. Zoé Donneaud. Camron Cozzi. Hunter Jones. Alan Vasquez. Andrea Ottaviani. Annabelle Nguyen. Kira Brown-Augdal. These are all names that, we suspect, mean nothing […]

March 17, 2018

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Connected to Kira, always

We’d like to tell you a story. It’s a tale both touching and tragic. Emotional, yet inspiring. It’s about a girl named Kira. It’s about a […]

October 1, 2015

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We all have it in us to touch the lives of others . . .

Imagine, for a moment, you’re a farmer . . . The planting, the ploughing and the picking. Your body. The machines. The days that are hot […]

September 17, 2015

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'If everyone does a little more for those less fortunate, we'll have a better society . . .'

Kindness is no more . . . You could be forgiven for thinking this and the images from Europe – the refugees, the tear gas, the […]

August 2, 2015

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'Everything exists together in a delicate balance . . .'

Like many, we’ve spent recent days thinking hard about Cecil the lion, Walter the dentist and the events in Zimbabwe that led the former to lose his […]

June 30, 2015

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'Walk in somebody else’s shoes, see through their eyes . . .'

Terror in Tunisia. In South Carolina, carnage. Isis’ influence all around us, the threat level as high as it has ever been. Life on Earth isn’t […]

April 15, 2015

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The cool thing about kindness? It feels REALLY good!

You don’t need to be big to make an impact on this world . . . You don’t need special qualifications. You don’t need to be […]

March 26, 2015

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You can make a difference. You can move mountains.

The people said that it couldn’t be done. His critics called him crazy . . . Yet Dashrath Manjhi could not be deterred. Dashrath Manjhi refused to […]