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Sleeping with Furniture Against the Door

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 10, 2026 "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." — Leonard Cohen Sleeping with Furniture Against the Door At five, Neha Kirpal was told not to brush her teeth because her mother believed the toothpaste was poisoned. Her mother had schizophrenia, and for years their home was a place where reality shifted without warning—furniture barricaded against doors at night, fights that sent her brother hiding under tables and police knocking on their door. Then, at thirteen, her mother and brother disappeared. Fo...
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Time Out of Joint, Global Shakespeare in Prison

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This week's inspiring video: Time Out of Joint, Global Shakespeare in Prison Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Apr 09, 2026   Time Out of Joint, Global Shakespeare in Prison   Rehabilitation through the Arts brought a screening of three films based on Shakespearean works to an...
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Why Pain Is Different From Suffering

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 09, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 09, 2026 "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." — Haruki Murakami Why Pain Is Different From Suffering It was an "utterly unfun experiment to be part of," recounts Cortland Dahl with a smile. "But it was also very illuminating." Lying in a brain scanner, participants in this research study were subjected to scalding water piped through a small thermode on their wrists -- at regular intervals over and over, for hours. Before each jolt of heat, a sound would signal what was coming. The test subjects were e...
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Who’s Afraid of ‘the Night of Controversies’?

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 08, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 08, 2026 "You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view." — Harper Lee Who’s Afraid of ‘the Night of Controversies’? A packed room in Paris gathers not to reach consensus, but to practice something rare in today's world: disagreeing well. At the Night of Controversies, over 600 people engage in structured debates on divisive topics like border abolition and environmental authoritarianism, where participants speak in timed turns and the audience shifts their positions not through coerc...
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Beyond Words: the Pilot Who Became a Caregiver

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 07, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 07, 2026 "When you are in the presence of people who are suffering and you don't turn away, something in you changes. The heart grows larger." — Ram Dass Beyond Words: the Pilot Who Became a Caregiver A former pilot trades the cockpit for nursing homes, spending 100 days with people living with dementia. Outside the nursing home, Vienna's sights and sounds buzz by as Michael rides his Vespa — construction sites, traffic lights, the city's relentless pace. Inside the facility, time moves differently: getting dressed be...
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Witnessing a Whale Birth, Scientists Find a Remarkable Amount of Teamwork

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 06, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 06, 2026 "We succeed by overcoming obstacles by working together. In spite of the fact that we're different and unrelated." — Shane Gero Witnessing a Whale Birth, Scientists Find a Remarkable Amount of Teamwork When researchers witnessed a sperm whale birth in the Caribbean, they discovered something remarkable: for three hours after the calf emerged, every whale in the pod took turns keeping the negatively buoyant newborn afloat -- even those with no genetic relationship to the mother. The footage revealed what marine biolog...
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This Month's Stories ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 05, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 05, 2026 "Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else." — Margaret Wheatley This Month's DailyGood Digest As March blossoms into April, we take a look at the DailyGood tapestry woven with stories of transformation, resilience, and our interconnections. This past month, Aterah Nusrat explored the profound potential of a collective transcendent emergence , inviting us to redefine our identity amidst a world in flux. David Bonbright shed light on how interconnected...
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