The Kingdom Outside Us!

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 31, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 31, 2026 "By looking beyond averages, we see a richer story." — Olga Lazareva and Reggie Gazes How Our Minds Map Numbers The assumption that humans naturally organize numbers in increasing value from left to right turns out to be far less universal than researchers once believed. While this "mental number line" holds true for many Western readers, studies of apes, monkeys, birds, and even native English speakers reveal something surprising: individuals often map magnitudes in opposite directions, with nearly a quarter o...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 30, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 30, 2026 "We all have within us the seeds of compassion to heal ourselves and the world around us. With right nurturance and right environment,these seeds will take root and flourish within us." — Lobsang Phuntsok The Uninvited Guest of This Universe In the remote regions of the Himalyas, Lobsang Phuntsok was born in a nomadic family to a young, unmarried mother. She gave birth in secret in the family toilet and left the newborn covered in dried leaves. He was saved by his grandparents, who heard his cries and found him nearly de...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 29, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 29, 2026 "We see in order to move; we move in order to see." — William Gibson Ride It Out: How Cycling Helps Kids Focus After Mike Sinyard, who has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), noticed that bike riding helped him focus, he founded the Specialized Bike Foundation, now Outride, whose “Riding for Focus” (R4F) program now is in 400 middle schools in the US and Canada. And it has had some astonishing results. P.E. teacher Ryan McKinney at Spooner Elementary School in Wisconsin, who began an R4F class as part of Out...

This week's inspiring video: The Power of Choosing YOU Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week May 28, 2026   The Power of Choosing YOU   If we don’t take care of ourselves, how can we truly care for others? It’s easy to fall into the habit of always putting others first, giving end...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 28, 2026 "Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain." — Vivian Greene What I Learned After 3 Bereavements in a Row After losing her husband of 35 years, then her sister and father within months, Lisa Jackson felt stripped of identity, plagued by "What's the point?" thoughts. She tried everything -- gong baths, cold-water swimming, junk food, intermittent crying -- searching for a way back to her old happy self. Then she discovered something unexpected: tuning into h...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 27, 2026 "Disasters do reveal our true colors, but more often than not, those are dazzling." — Jamil Zaki Tornado's Legacy of Catastrophe Compassion, 15 Years Later After a massive tornado displaced a third of the residents of Joplin, Missouri, and killed nearly 160 people in May 2011, stories of kindness and cooperation overwrote the tragedy - and still do. Almost 100,000 volunteers from nearly every state helped clean up debris and rebuild. Ranchers cooked for volunteers. A university dean, who lost his own home, set up cot...