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DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 17, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 17, 2026 "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." — Thomas Merton Crafting Closure: One Unfinished Project at a Time When Michelle Rudy discovered an unfinished sock monkey her late mother had begun sewing, she wanted her three-year-old nephew to hold something made with his grandmother's hands, even though they'd never meet. That experience inspired her to turn to Loose Ends, a nonprofit started in 2023 by two avid knitters that matches unfinished crafts with volunteer "finishers"...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 16, 2026 "So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain." — Helen Keller Commencement Speaker Pays Off Graduates' Senior Year Loans When commencement speaker Anil Kochhar told graduating students of North Carolina State University's Wilson College of Textiles that he and his wife, Marilyn, would pay off all their final year student loans, the crowd erupted in applause and tears. The gift honored Kochhar's father, who traveled from Punjab, India in 1946 to study at North Carolina State as the second In...

This week's inspiring video: The Magic of Memory Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week May 14, 2026   The Magic of Memory   Memory is a way for us to stay in touch with those parts of our lives that have formed who we are with our selves and our loved ones. When we look at treasur...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 14, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 14, 2026 "Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity." — Pema Chodron The Woman Who Gave What She Didn't Have Trupti Pandya sits in a women's shelter in Gujarat, India, working to reunite displaced women with their families. She traces villages on Google Earth, makes phone calls, and pieces together fragments of memory and maps. A few residents watch quietly as she works, learning to ask questions, and witnessing the ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 13, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 13, 2026 "You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." — Jon Kabat-Zinn I Suffered Burns as a Child. Then I Became a Firefighter. At six years old, Terry McCarthy's body went up in flames when his brothers accidentally kicked over a bowl of kerosene. Burns covered 73% of his body. Recovery took a year across multiple hospitals, five-hour bandage changes, skin so thin that bending would crack it open. As a young adult, scarred and struggling, he was told outright by a manager: "I can't hire you." So at 2...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 12, 2026 "The most sacred work in education has always been one person, fully present, lighting a flame that others will carry forward long after they are gone." — Navin Amarasuriya When the Embodied Teacher Is the Curriculum Tools shaped education from ancestor stories around a tended fire, to farming, to an industrial age “grade-based conveyor belt designed to produce workers that would serve economies.” All the while, new tools emerge. Measurable performance like enrollment, test scores, and college degrees create incentive st...