The Kingdom Outside Us!

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 01, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 01, 2026 "There is no joy in possession without sharing." — Erasmus Kids Borrow Sports Gear for Free at This Special Library After 18 years watching families in his neighborhood go without sports equipment, parks worker Maribel Lopez held onto a small idea and a little budget until the moment was right. Youth sports in the United States costs an average family $1016 per child, according to Aspen Institute's 2025 State of Play report. The Park Play Lending Library -- with soccer balls, volleyballs, yoga mats, and tennis racket...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 31, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 31, 2026 "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves." — Lao Tzu One Word That Stopped a Theft After midnight in an Israeli gas station, a young man deep in an ancient text looked up at a shoplifter and called him, without irony, a tzaddik, a "righteous one". The thief stopped. Then came back. Then returned everything. Erez Levin's story, told decades later, is not really about that midnight moment -- it's about what had to be ...

This week's inspiring video: The Birdwatchers Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jul 30, 2026   The Birdwatchers   Four women who proudly identify themselves as birdwatchers challenge stereotypes of who spends time watching birds and why. As Carly Simon said, "The sound of bird...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 30, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 30, 2026 "In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few." — Shunryu Suzuki The Brain of a Beginner's Mind When neuroscientist Karen Barrett scanned the brains of children improvising music for the first time, she expected to find something rudimentary. Instead, she found something revealing. The children's brains lit up in reward centers more strongly than those of trained jazz musicians, suggesting that creativity isn't a skill layered onto the brain through practice, but some...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 29, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 29, 2026 "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." — Henry David Thoreau How Discarded Plastic Bottles Are Saving Dolphins Off the coast of Brazil, something quietly ingenious is happening: fishers are zip-tying discarded plastic bottles to their gillnets, which allows dolphins that previously would have gotten caught in them to swim away unharmed. The logic is elegant: dolphins navigate by echolocation, and the air trapped inside a plastic bottle bounces their sonar signals back, making an otherwise in...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 28, 2026 "There is no greater disability in society than the inability to see a person as more." — Robert M. Hensel The Amputees Farming in Sierra Leone After Sierra Leone's civil war left nearly 30,000 people without limbs and, too often, without dignity, pastor-turned-farmer Mambud Samai refused to accept that this was simply how things had to be. He has since taught over 100 amputees to grow food sustainably, turning smallholder plots into sources of income, community, and self-determination. One early participant, Mustaph...