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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 20, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 20, 2026 "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." — Nido Qubein Bringing Live Music to Deaf Audiences, with the Help of Air Guitar Luke Holdsworth spent his teenage years assuming live music simply wasn't for him -- not until his mid-20s did he attend his first concert, standing in a crowd he couldn't fully enter. Now, as one of the UK's most respected British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters at live events, he stands at the front of sold-out stadium sho...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 18, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 18, 2026 "Rejection is not the end of the story. Sometimes it's the beginning of the story. Sometimes it's the place where you find your lineage." — Sister Elizabeth Greim Why Can't You?: Three Decades with Those at the Margins Sister Elizabeth Greim dreamed of becoming a nun early on, but was told she couldn’t because her parents were divorced. In spite of this and other rejections, she wanted to be of service. In 1993, at age 33, with 4 earrings in each ear, a cigarette dangling, a failed marriage, and nowhere else ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 17, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 17, 2026 "Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot." — Jamie Anderson Love That Has Nowhere Else to Go The tailor said 150 meters would be enough. One dress each. But the grieving mother looked at him and replied, "I want to give them five dresses each." There was silence. Then came school bags, lunch boxes, water bottles, chocolates, and name tags -- so that each child at the orphanage would receive something chosen personally for them. Ravinder Komaragiri writes of how h...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 16, 2026 "The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." — Jiddu Krishnamurti This Week's DailyGood Digest This week, we journeyed through stories that illuminated the interconnectedness of our shared humanity. In today's AI world, we held questions around the intentions molding designs that capture our attention . We marveled at changemaker Ruth Brigandi's unique of loss and found of her memory when she was a teenager and how it influenced her trajectory towards ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 16, 2026 "We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion." — Max De Pree Messages That Wash Away Every message Ella Joy Martinez writes disappears with the tide -- and that's exactly the point. The 13-year-old from Kaua?i, who has Down Syndrome and is nonverbal, has turned a family shoreline ritual into Sand Scribletz, a small business o...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 15, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 15, 2026 "Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are." — Rachel Naomi Remen The Listening That Heals For many of us, when someone else is speaking, our minds are busy. As we take in what they are saying, we may be quietly, and often unknowingly, holding court inside our own heads -- agreeing, disagreeing, comparing, di...