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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 13, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 13, 2026 "Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves." — Tasneern Harneed How Trees Stand Tall Lay a young poplar on its side, surround it with light from every direction, eliminate gravity's pull — and watch what happens. Over time, the tree rights itself, pushing back toward vertical through a mechanism that looks, functionally, like a muscle. Researchers from France's INRAE have confirmed what was only suspected fifteen years ago: trees produce a specialized "tension wood" on altern...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 12, 2026 "It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." — Wendell Berry Wendell Berry’s Life on Earth Wendell Berry spent 92 years insisting that the largest problems in the world are answered, first, in the smallest gestures -- a seed planted, a field tended, a pencil drawn across paper. The writer and farmer from Henry County, Kentu...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 11, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 11, 2026 "The greatest asset that your community has is its people." — Claude Elliott Gander's Solace in a Time of Crisis On the morning of September 11, 2001, 38 planes descended on a small Canadian town of 12,000 people who had no plan, no warning, and no hesitation. Gander, Newfoundland -- perched at the edge of the Atlantic, closer to Europe than to most of Canada -- became an accidental refuge for 7,000 stranded passengers from all over the world after the United States closed its airspace due to the tragic terrorist att...

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...

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...

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...