The Kingdom Outside Us!

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 18, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 18, 2026 "We do not sing because we are happy. We are happy because we sing." — William James 100 Strangers Singing Together In a former synagogue in Los Angeles, more than a hundred strangers gathered to spend an evening learning a choral arrangement of a Miley Cyrus song -- with no audience but themselves. What sounds like an oddly modern premise turns out to touch something very old: the hunger to belong, to resonate, to disappear into something larger than your own solitude. One-day choirs, like those organized by New York...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 17, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 17, 2026 "There’s always a way – if you’re committed." — Tony Robbins The Tiny Cell That Broke a Big Rule of Biology For decades, Jon Zehr chased a bacterium he could detect only by its genetic fingerprint -- "a footprint without an animal" -- while Kyoko Hagino, working from the other side of the world with no salary and a daughter who thought beaches existed only for collecting seawater, spent years cultivating an algae her own boss told her no one would care about. Neither knew the other existed, and neither knew the...

This week's inspiring video: Love Liberates - Words to Live by from Dr. Maya Angelou Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jul 16, 2026   Love Liberates - Words to Live by from Dr. Maya Angelou   Maya Angelou eloquently describes how her mother taught her through her actions that ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 16, 2026 "So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village." — Robin Quivers The 4-Year-Old Who Built a Village After his parents broke up, his father moved away, and his grandparents were out of state, 4-year-old Roman Butzlaff felt lonely. So, Roman took things into his own hands -- literally. He began waving at people passing by in front of his home. At first, his neighbor across the street came over, then another stopped to chat, and another. Before long, there were hugs and, at his invitation, t...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 15, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 15, 2026 "If each person has natural gifts and innate talents, then the true nature of education must involve the awakening, inviting, and blessing of the inner genius and unique life spirit of each young person." — Michael Meade Hundreds of Teen Poems, One Surprise Finding Statistics about depression, mental health, and screen time cause concern for young people along with older people’s judgment that “today’s generation doesn’t read or doesn’t care.” Sean Murphy spent six months reading hundreds of poems submitted by young writ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 14, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 14, 2026 "Art reveals something beyond the message. A story or poem may reveal truths to me as I write it. I don’t put them there. I find them in the story as I work." — Ursula K. Le Guin Writing as Spellcasting Writer Mandy Len Catron finally finished a book proposal she began in 2019. A publisher liked it, but was hesitant to proceed because of similar books on the market. Then someone asked, “Do you think this book needs to exist?” She realized it was “started by a person I used to be” before the pandemic, before teaching, bef...