Be strong, my daughter
Elyas and Latifa had been wanting to have us over for an Afghan lunch for months, as a gesture of gratitude to KindWorks for setting up their apartment when they first arrived in the U.S
Kindness Keepsake
It is so meaningful for me to receive your messages on how a particular story I shared moved you. Some of you even share your own personal stories in response
“Let go and let God”
Dr. Yusef Salaam is one of the most graceful and inspiring people I’ve ever met. Given what he’s gone through—in 1989, when he was just 15, he was tried and convicted in the “Central Park Jogger” …
On shame, and being human
I’ve followed Amena Khan, a UK based social media content creator and presenter, on Instagram for years and I appreciate her openness in talking about some of the hard issues that our community doesn’t open up about sufficiently.
Always look for the good
“One particular thing that Dad taught me and that I think about often is both his example and advice to view people as three dimensional and to always look for the good in them.”
Question everything
“My father taught me from a very young age to question everything, to be both curious and skeptical, to take nothing on blind faith, and to relish every challenge and objection,” said journalist Mehdi Hasan.
Let others elevate you
An honor to present the 30 Days book and journal to the Pakistani Ambassador in Paris.
If I could share one message …
If I could share one message with the world, it would be this.
The threads that connect us
And this is how our friendship began, on January 1st, 2022 – one story leading to another, about our fathers and mothers, about pottery, special friends, kind gestures, and pixie sticks… unraveling, story by story, the threads that bind us.
A year of kindness
A 2022 Kindness Calendar with inspiring stories, 365 ways to share kindness, and joyful art. Support KindWorks and spread kindness.
“You don’t love people because …”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison shares a wisdom from his Mom, who passed away in 2020.
“Everything can be fixed”
A wisdom Munira learned from her teacher while creating leather artwork now guides the rest of her life.
“They never judge”
When Peter Sanders was a young boy, he used to make a frame using two fingers of each hand – so he could take away the clutter, and focus on what’s right in front of him.
We are humanKIND
About 20 KindWorkers had gathered to set up an apartment for a newly arriving Syrian refugee family. We assembled a beautiful Pakistani hand carved dining table, arranged a dollhouse with tiny furniture, put together bunk beds, and left backpacks filled with school supplies from a teen heading off to college.
Community Farm Share
One of the most fulfilling aspects of KindWorks is helping inspire people to find their volunteer passion -- perhaps even their life's calling. Jenny, a dear friend and former neighbor who now lives and works on her farm
"Not-so-random-acts-of-kindness"
Today is "Random Acts of Kindness Day" (RAK). We love all kinds of kindnesses being shared, but KindWorks is more about the "not-so-random-acts-of kindness"
Notice, everyone
Christmas day, 2020. We've all seen them on our drives or runs - the tents that dot our capital city, under bridges and on the sides of the road. We may have thought to ourselves
Turn 'nice' into 'kind' (collect wooly socks!)
It's 'nice' to care about issues in our community; a feeling to want to help is 'nice'. But 'nice’ needs a nudge to make it ‘kind’. On a blustery October day, Monica was driving along
Change one life for the better
Sometimes we get caught up in the enormity of the world's problems -- there is SO much hunger, poverty, injustice, displacement, inequality --