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How Trees Talk to Each Other

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This week's inspiring video: How Trees Talk to Each Other Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Sep 10, 2026   How Trees Talk to Each Other   "A forest is much more than what you see," says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Simard's 40 years of research in Canadian forests have led to...
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At 96, the 'Third Part of Life' May Be the Best of All

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 10, 2026 "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals." — Samuel Ullman At 96, the 'Third Part of Life' May Be the Best of All At 96 years-old, Alice McGinty does resistance training three times a week, travels to Costa Rican jungles, and shows her paintings -- work that has grown more vivid and abstract since macular degeneration narrowed her world to color alone. What she is pushing against is quieter than any of that: "It is subtle and unspoken," she says of the di...
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Wire Baskets of Books at the Laundromat

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 09, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 09, 2026 "Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time." — E.P. Whipple Wire Baskets of Books at the Laundromat On the wall of a laundromat in Wyoming, Ohio, four wire baskets hold books like Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel -- each one stickered with an invitation to "Read it, Love it, Pass it on." It's a small thing, and also not a small thing at all. The Laundromat Library League, now spanning more than 200 locations across the United States, was born when two Pennsylvanians noticed children slumped o...
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What Clowns Know About Saying Yes

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 08, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 08, 2026 "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." — Victor Hugo What Clowns Know About Saying Yes Natalie Porias never planned to lead an organization of professional clowns working in earthquake zones and hospices -- she just Googled "fundraising" and applied for an open internship in that department. Twenty years later, she's CEO of Red Noses International, and one of her greatest lessons involves a single conjunction: replace "but" with "and," she says, and watch how the w...
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Why One Father Filled 1,450+ Potholes

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 07, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 07, 2026 "Don't get lost in your pain; know that one day your pain will become your cure." — Jalaluddin Rumi Why One Father Filled 1,450+ Potholes When Dadarao Bilhore lost his 16-year-old son to a motorbike accident caused by a water-filled pothole on a flooded Mumbai road in 2015, grief could have sealed him shut. Instead, a month later, he walked out with a shovel. In the years since, he has filled more than 1,450 potholes by hand -- most of them being the kind a rider doesn't see until it's too late -- driven by a...
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He Sold His $100M Company to Clean Festival Floors

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 06, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 06, 2026 "We do not think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking." — Richard Rohr He Sold His $100M Company to Clean Festival Floors Xavier Ginesta built one of Spain's most celebrated companies — a global payments firm twice named a best place to work — and then sold it for over $100 million. Not to retire. Not to launch a startup. But because 2,000 people dancing in ecstatic joy made him realize, as he puts it, "it was so cheap to make all these people so happy." That moment...
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Birds as Sonic Neurotransmitters Across Species

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 05, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 05, 2026 "Bird sounds reveal the polyrhythms of a living Earth." — David Haskell Birds as Sonic Neurotransmitters Across Species At the confluence of a bird's two windpipes, sitting directly over its heart, is a sound-making organ no larger than a lentil -- and from this tiny syrinx, a dozen rings of bone and two dozen muscles craft what biologist David Haskell calls the work of "quick-fingered jewelers of air." His essay is an invitation to cross one of the oldest divides on Earth: the 300 million years of evolutio...
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