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The Man Who Uncovers Remarkable Forgotten Lives

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 28, 2026 "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." — Thomas Campbell The Man Who Uncovers Remarkable Forgotten Lives Scrolling through videos on social media, one man was about to swipe past Simon Howard's video of researching the history of the names on a random grave from 1934, when he realized, "It hit me: that’s exactly who I’ll be in a century. Just some random guy with his own ego, desires and goals, completely forgotten." Simon Howard, whose work involves helping people trace their ancestral pasts, w...

Smashing Yesterday's Croissants for a Better Tomorrow

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 27, 2026 "Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet." — Tristram Stuart Smashing Yesterday's Croissants for a Better Tomorrow At a Paris bakery called Demain (the French word for "tomorrow"), yesterday's unsold croissants and sourdough loaves don't go to waste; they go on sale for half price, rescued from partner bakeries across the city and given a second chance to nourish someone. "All of this would have ended up in the trashcan," says...

The Granny Grommets

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This week's inspiring video: The Granny Grommets Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jun 25, 2026   The Granny Grommets   Age is no barrier - to enjoying the ocean or to enjoying life.  This is the premise of the short film "The Granny Grommets" by Leah Rustomgee, winner of...

A Wall Street Refugee Finds His Poetry Again

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 25, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 25, 2026 "True love requires the ego to fall silent so that something larger than ourselves can finally move through us." — Nguyá»…n Phương Lam A Wall Street Refugee Finds His Poetry Again He co-founded a global private equity empire, traveled to over 130 countries, and checked every box the world said mattered. Then, he looked inward and found, as he puts it, "the ego doing all of it." Nguyen Phuong Lam offers a unique reckoning written from inside the machine, by someone who helped run it. Born in Vietnam, Lam traces a ...

The Origin Point of Stories

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 24, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 24, 2026 "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." — Rumi The Origin Point of Stories There are two places a story can come from, remarks filmmaker Nic Askew, who has sat with thousands of people over decades, being an authentic witness to their stories. One is the calculating mind, which speaks *to* someone with the notion of giving or getting or contributing something. The other is a deeper source that speaks *through* a person once they set that all down. In a short piece of raw, unedited footage, Nic describes ...

This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 21, 2026 "Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone." — Margaret Wheatley This Week's DailyGood Digest This week's inspirations remind us of the interconnectedness embedded in our existence. Storyteller Leena Wilde Ryan delved us into the power of standing at the  threshold of a new story , complete with plot twists and the punctuation of our intentions. Follow...

Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on?

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 21, 2026 "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." — Pablo Picasso Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on? When Cork multimedia artist Elinor O'Donovan was working part-time as a receptionist just to pay rent, an entire film career was waiting, unrealized, on the other side of financial precarity. Ireland's newly permanent basic income for artists -- the first such trial in history to become permanent -- changed that, and in doing so, raised a questio...