What do we do when the world feels so heavy? For me, the answer comes today: Ramadan. It provides a much-needed invitation to reset and refocus, to turn my attention to gratitude, generosity, charity, and prayer.

My overwhelming feeling during this journey was one of awe. I kept wondering, what is each person praying for?

Each year I chose a word to serve as a guiding principle for the year ahead. My word for 2026 might surprise you.

I start my personal storytelling workshops with a ‘six-word memoir’. Then I invite people to share the story behind their six words. This is what floors me every single time. (Also, this is 59!)

But how do you remind someone of the mosaic of their life if it’s their memory that’s fading? 

The most incredible story of kindness and humanity from Gaza.

This series captures the universal language of kindness as it is practiced in different countries and cultures.

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

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

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” …

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.

“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.”

“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.

An honor to present the 30 Days book and journal to the Pakistani Ambassador in Paris.

If I could share one message with the world, it would be this.

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 2022 Kindness Calendar with inspiring stories, 365 ways to share kindness, and joyful art. Support KindWorks and spread kindness.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison shares a wisdom from his Mom, who passed away in 2020.

A wisdom Munira learned from her teacher while creating leather artwork now guides the rest of her life.

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.