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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 06, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 06, 2026 "We do not think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking." — Richard Rohr He Sold His $100M Company to Clean Festival Floors Xavier Ginesta built one of Spain's most celebrated companies — a global payments firm twice named a best place to work — and then sold it for over $100 million. Not to retire. Not to launch a startup. But because 2,000 people dancing in ecstatic joy made him realize, as he puts it, "it was so cheap to make all these people so happy." That moment...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 05, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 05, 2026 "Bird sounds reveal the polyrhythms of a living Earth." — David Haskell Birds as Sonic Neurotransmitters Across Species At the confluence of a bird's two windpipes, sitting directly over its heart, is a sound-making organ no larger than a lentil -- and from this tiny syrinx, a dozen rings of bone and two dozen muscles craft what biologist David Haskell calls the work of "quick-fingered jewelers of air." His essay is an invitation to cross one of the oldest divides on Earth: the 300 million years of evolutio...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 04, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 04, 2026 "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." — Henry David Thoreau Five Decision-Making Lessons From Bugs An ant has a poppy-seed-sized brain and no map, no manager, no meeting -- and yet ant colonies reliably find the shortest path to food every time. This piece explores five surprisingly practical lessons in decision-making drawn from insects, and the wisdom is genuinely humbling. Ants reinforce efficient paths through colle...

This week's inspiring video: Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Sep 03, 2026   Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things   “The Peace of Wild Things” is a beautifully animated film of a poem written and read by Wendell Berry as part of the ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 02, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 02, 2026 "Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope." — David Kessler She Came Around the Counter On the day of her mother's funeral, with rain splitting open a dry summer sky, Helen walked into an office store in Taree, Australia, to print a eulogy. It was nearing the end of 2015 and the saleswoman who greeted her was the same one who had been gently asking about her ailing mother for months -- through every biweekly flight, every boarding pass printed, every quiet update shared across a counter. Thi...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 01, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 01, 2026 "Trust your heart. Trust the process. Trust the path. You have to start with one step — which is to trust yourself." — Patricia Lim What You Don't Have to Carry As a very young mother, Patricia Lim took on great responsibility in the care of her children and household. She took on even more to become a psychologist, and an executive for the UN in Brazil. After learning about HeartMath in a Leadership program, Patricia “felt the energy of the field, and my heart” and began a journey to listen, even leaving her prestig...