Welcome to Heartworks!

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Be present in your life,
with what is comfortable as well as what is difficult.
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Be courageous,
and reach out to others.
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Give when you can give
and receive when it is your time to receive. You will be gifting your family as well as the world.
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Be grateful and
celebrate life today,
regardless of what it may bring.
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Do not waste time on unimportant things.

welcome to heartworks
“Heartworks” is a non-profit Acts of Kindness group created in response to the tremendous kindness that sustained so many families in the months and years following September 11, 2001.

In daily memory of John W. Farrell
(Jan. 23 1960- Sept. 11, 2001)
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Dear Friend,

Thank you so much for visiting our website. I want to share with you a little bit about how and why Heartworks got started.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I had just finished giving my daughter a spoonful of yogurt when the phone rang. It was my brother asking me if I had the television on. Life as my family knew it changed between that spoonful and the next. My brother-in-law John W. Farrell never came home from his job in the Twin Towers. My sister Maryanne had dated him since she was 16. They were married with four children: Kaitlin, Patrick, Molly and Colin. John had been like a member of my close-knit family since I was seven years old. Click here to read more...