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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...

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...

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...

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...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 04, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 04, 2026 "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." — Henry David Thoreau Five Decision-Making Lessons From Bugs An ant has a poppy-seed-sized brain and no map, no manager, no meeting -- and yet ant colonies reliably find the shortest path to food every time. This piece explores five surprisingly practical lessons in decision-making drawn from insects, and the wisdom is genuinely humbling. Ants reinforce efficient paths through colle...

This week's inspiring video: Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Sep 03, 2026   Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things   “The Peace of Wild Things” is a beautifully animated film of a poem written and read by Wendell Berry as part of the ...