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She Looked for Her 4th Grade Teacher for 22 Years. Finding Her Led to a Beautiful Twist.

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 27, 2026 "That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." — William Wordsworth She Looked for Her 4th Grade Teacher for 22 Years. Finding Her Led to a Beautiful Twist. For 22 years, Olivia Bean held onto the memory of a teacher whose name she didn't know - only that this woman had driven a child living in a motel home from school each day, offering her "a few minutes out of the day where I could just be a kid." When the search to find and thank her finally succee...

60 Bentos Cooked in the Dark

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 26, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 26, 2026 "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." — Dalai Lama 60 Bentos Cooked in the Dark The night after Hurricane Lowell swept through Kaua'i, with their own power out, Damian and Donna Loo drove to a friend's house with a backup battery and cooked 60 bentos for elderly neighbors who had nothing left in their refrigerators but spoiling food. What began as one couple's refusal to look away grew, quietly and organically, into something the Hawaiian word ...

Selah: Water from Stone

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This week's inspiring video: Selah: Water from Stone Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Sep 24, 2026   Selah: Water from Stone   "If you don't share, you will live a lonely life," says David Bamberger in this short film about how he transformed 5,500 acres in overgrazed Tex...

The Tiktok Mob Reversing Online Bullying

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 24, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 24, 2026 "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." — William Arthur Ward The Tiktok Mob Reversing Online Bullying Tyler Brickley started one of the internet's most disarming social experiments: a half-million-strong TikTok "army" he deploys, mob-style, to flood strangers being bullied online with kindness. When Laura Tigeleiro of Staten Island posted cooking videos and received mockery for her multiple sclerosis-affected eye, Brickley's followers descended -- not ...

Shops Without Shopkeepers: the Civic Lessons Hidden in Northeast India

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 23, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 23, 2026 "When the social soil is healthy — when trust runs deep, when shared reality holds, when people can communicate and sense together and act from it — everything above ground flourishes. When the social soil is depleted, no amount of structural reengineering can compensate." — Otto Scharmer Shops Without Shopkeepers: the Civic Lessons Hidden in Northeast India Trust replaces policing and government dictates in various villages in northeast India. Cars queue for their turn at unmarked junctions without beeps, traffic lights...

Reforesting Ethiopia with 50 Billion Trees, One Step at a Time

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 22, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 22, 2026 "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." — Nelson Henderson Reforesting Ethiopia with 50 Billion Trees, One Step at a Time When Halima Kedir began planting trees in Ethiopia's drought-prone Oromia region, her neighbors laughed. But she kept walking an hour each way to fetch water for her seedlings, tending them, she says, the way her Oromo tradition tends to adopted children: "I see them like my own children." Her quiet persistence has since helped shift a co...

World’s First Solar Ambulance Completes Its First Real-World Test in Rural Kenya

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 21, 2026 "Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul." — Amit Ray World’s First Solar Ambulance Completes Its First Real-World Test in Rural Kenya In the Narok region of Kenya, where rough roads stretch for hours between communities and the power grid cannot be counted on, a different kind of ambulance recently made its first journey - not toward a hospital, but toward the people who could never easily reach one. Stella Juva, developed by Solar Team Eindhoven, is a solar-powered mobile clinic that gener...