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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...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 26, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 26, 2026 "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu This Month's DailyGood Digest This month's roundup of stories highlight the power of small, dedicated acts of presence. We delved into an array of experiences that mirror the human potential for inspiring possibility and compassion. Two scientists researching human flourishing around the world reminded us that small gestures weave a kinder society. Influencer Claudia Chee's reflects on how wandering the aisles of a wh...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 26, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 26, 2026 "Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle." — Charles Glassman A Fellow Diner's Quiet Noticing Allen Renfrey had lost his wife in 2020 and his son in 2021. A few years on, he was living alone in a retirement complex. One night, he dined at a Vietnamese restaurant that he and his wife used to frequent, ordering his usual rice paper rolls. It happened to be Father's Day. After he finished and went to pay, the woman at the counter told him his meal was already taken care of; a couple who had just ...