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[Subscribe](http://eepurl.com/be_Uej) - Search our site - Categories - [Artists and Members](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/tag/artists-and-members) - [Big Ideas](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/tag/big-ideas) - [Grants](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/tag/grants) - [How We Work](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/tag/how-we-work) - [Tips and Tools](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/tag/tips-and-tools) - [Updates and Announcements](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/tag/updates-and-announcements) - Social - - - [Subscribe](http://eepurl.com/be_Uej) [![Blog Feature](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/298890/blog-files/blog--cards-feature.png)](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/do-kind-helpful-things-2fe4d8fbe385) [Big Ideas](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/topic/big-ideas) | [How We Work](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/topic/how-we-work) | [Be Kind](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/topic/be-kind) | [People Operations](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/topic/people-operations) ## [Do kind, helpful things](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/do-kind-helpful-things-2fe4d8fbe385) By [Tim Cynova](https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/author/tim-cynova) February 9th, 2017 Searching for purpose in our work and life Me and my mom Today would have been my mom’s 68th birthday. Instead, my family lost her four years ago to brain cancer. Near the end of her life, my parents were preparing to retire and downsize to a smaller home. As an apartment dweller ever since I graduated from college nearly 20 years ago, I had more than a handful of boxes containing my belongings still stashed in their basement all these years later. I began that rite of passage where one needs to reduce their entire pre-adult existence into a small box that will fit in the back of a small closet inside of a small New York City apartment. 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