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This week's inspiring video: Love Liberates - Words to Live by from Dr. Maya Angelou Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jul 16, 2026   Love Liberates - Words to Live by from Dr. Maya Angelou   Maya Angelou eloquently describes how her mother taught her through her actions that ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 16, 2026 "So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village." — Robin Quivers The 4-Year-Old Who Built a Village After his parents broke up, his father moved away, and his grandparents were out of state, 4-year-old Roman Butzlaff felt lonely. So, Roman took things into his own hands -- literally. He began waving at people passing by in front of his home. At first, his neighbor across the street came over, then another stopped to chat, and another. Before long, there were hugs and, at his invitation, t...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 15, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 15, 2026 "If each person has natural gifts and innate talents, then the true nature of education must involve the awakening, inviting, and blessing of the inner genius and unique life spirit of each young person." — Michael Meade Hundreds of Teen Poems, One Surprise Finding Statistics about depression, mental health, and screen time cause concern for young people along with older people’s judgment that “today’s generation doesn’t read or doesn’t care.” Sean Murphy spent six months reading hundreds of poems submitted by young writ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 14, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 14, 2026 "Art reveals something beyond the message. A story or poem may reveal truths to me as I write it. I don’t put them there. I find them in the story as I work." — Ursula K. Le Guin Writing as Spellcasting Writer Mandy Len Catron finally finished a book proposal she began in 2019. A publisher liked it, but was hesitant to proceed because of similar books on the market. Then someone asked, “Do you think this book needs to exist?” She realized it was “started by a person I used to be” before the pandemic, before teaching, bef...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 12, 2026 "Each of us has some specific skill we can offer. We give what we can, every time we can. ... And if everybody's doing that, then we are changing the world." — Brian Conroy This Week's DailyGood Digest This week's stories reveal how simple acts of kindness and service can ripple through communities and generations. We explored the interconnectedness of our actions and their impact on the world. Starting with the  Indigenous women who have fended off savanna fires in Brazil by understandi...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 12, 2026 "The body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body." — Jiddu Krishnamurti Three Medicines: One Physician's Journey Dr. Cynthia Li had done everything right. She spent a decade rebuilding her health from the inside out after conventional medicine found nothing wrong with her -- no diagnosis, no treatment, just labs that read normal while her body fell apart. She documented every step, wrote the book, and then collapsed again on the final page. What brok...