The Kingdom Outside Us!

A 7-day pod on living and dying begins Aug 2, with hospice physician Maki Saionji Kawamura  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ View in Browser Brother David Steindl-Rast on his 100th birthday, expressing gratitude for the work of ServiceSpace To Loot You With Love One man’s coherence dissolved a civil war. What might a field of it do? In 1951, with Telangana’s villages caught between guerrillas by night and troops by day, a frail 55-year-old walked in without police escort. In a villag...

This week's inspiring video: Love Your Life: An Illustrated Interview with Maurice Sendak Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jul 23, 2026   Love Your Life: An Illustrated Interview with Maurice Sendak   As our spirit grows, we become more in touch with the beauty of the world. ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 23, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 23, 2026 "As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency" — Caroline Kennedy How Your Tiny Actions Can Help Build a Kinder Society Researchers at Harvard have given a name to something most people already know in their bones: that a smile in a hallway, a word of thanks at a checkout counter, or a moment of genuine recognition can quietly shift the feel of a day. They call these gestures "microkindnesses" -- defined as small acts "motivated at least in part by genuine warm...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 22, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 22, 2026 "Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." — Rikki Rogers 43 Days Alone, Rowing to Hawaii Kelsey Pfendler pushed off from Monterey, California on May 21 with 2,400 miles (3862 kilometers) of open Pacific Ocean between her and land. 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes later, she rowed into Honolulu Harbor -- the fastest person of any gender, and the first American woman, to complete the solo mid-Pacific crossing. Hundreds waited on the dock to gre...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 21, 2026 "Just remember that those things that get attention flourish." — Victoria Moran The City That Chose Nature Over Billboards When the French city of Grenoble declined to renew its billboard contracts in 2014, it did something quietly radical: it treated public space as belonging to the public. Over the following decade, 326 advertising structures came down, and in their place came trees, bike lanes, and open sightlines to the Alps -- a transformation so well-received that not one of the two election cycles since has seen a...