Since its inception in September 2022, Loose Ends has amassed 7,000 volunteer “finishers” from every state and dozens of foreign countries. The organization will match finishers to projects of any fiber arts handwork craft, including knitting, crochet, rug hooking, embroidery, cross stitch and quilting.
Why did I just realize, at age 62, how important notes of encouragement are — so important that people will protect and move them over and over again for 50 years?
Would we live differently if we knew we had to face the boss every Sunday to give an account of what we did with our time that week?
Irene retired as a nurse a few years after her husband died. She knew she needed to find a purpose for her life. Now 71, she found it by reading to people who can often no longer read themselves.
“While many men demand respect, what they need is purpose, and the quest for respect can sometimes undermine the sense of purpose that will help make them whole.”
After losing his family, some of his friends and his job, Otto has no purpose. His life changes when he discovers what that purpose may be.
“We don’t have to compete with the child’s other grandparents or even parents, and we don’t even need to specialize in one area,” Barbara wrote. “We can grandparent in our own unique style and way.”
The father-of-three went through 20 pairs of running shoes during his 9,500-mile trek between his home and his office in 2022.
Just after his 55th birthday in 1984, Stuart Grant bought a cottage near Inverness, Scotland, despite it being in near total disrepair. The old shoemaker’s