The Kingdom Outside Us!

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 19, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 19, 2026 "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you have been." — Madeleine L'Engle Retired Accountant Becomes 'School Grandma' In Denver, Colorado's Family Star Montessori, retired accountant Sue Alexander finds new purpose. As a child leans against her, whispering, "I love squishy things," Alexander's arm (the "squishy thing") becomes a symbol of connection and care. This scene unfolds within the Early Childhood Service Corps, a program enlistin...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 18, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 18, 2026 "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Non-Speaking Autistic Novelist on His Journey From Write-off to Writer Woody Brown is a great writer. He graduated with top writing honors from UCLA, and completed his master’s at Columbia University. At age 28, he published his highly reviewed first book, Upward Bound. The book reveals the inner lives of neurotypical “clients” and those who care for them at an adult day care center. Woody is able t...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 17, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 17, 2026 "As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and clearer." — Rumi Corrective for a Broken Heart Maria Popova reframes heartbreak not as shattering but as dislocation -- a temporary loss of bearing in a universe where even the north star changes every twenty-six thousand years. Her poem refuses "the threadbare drama, the stale catastrophism" of brokenness, insisting instead that the heart still beats, still trembles at beauty, and needs only "the firm, fastidious hand of time to slide it back i...

This week's inspiring video: Flipped Learning Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Apr 16, 2026   Flipped Learning   In "flipped learning," students watch podcasts of their teacher's lectures on their own time and spend their time in the classroom applying what they've le...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 16, 2026 "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." — Aristotle Strangers Answer a Mysterious Red Telephone on a Bridge When a red telephone appears on a London bridge, strangers pick up, and something unexpected happens. Artist Joe Bloom, troubled by how "street interview" culture had become invasive and exploitative, wanted to reimagine the format into something genuinely human. His project "A View from a Bridge" places vintage handset phones on rand...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 15, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 15, 2026 "…kindness is less about doing and more about being — about remembering the simple, unguarded ways our hearts already know how to meet." — Helen Eveleigh A Dance of Invisible Kindness For a year, Helen Eveleigh and a fellow member of the Auroville Community in South India inquired about kindness among other community members in interviews and sharing circles. They learned that “kindness is so intrinsic to life that we don't even see it.” They found that an anonymous kind action inspires a kind action in return that h...