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Neighbors Transform Tent Encampment Into Shelter Village

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 12, 2026 "When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed." — Maya Angelou Neighbors Transform Tent Encampment Into Shelter Village Matthew Stone, who was living in a tent with his dog in the woods of a central Illinois city, was among the first 55 residents to move into Bloomington’s first shelter village. A fully enclosed campus with a bathhouse and community center and 48 tiny sleeping cabins, The Bridge can accommodate 56 adults. It cost $2.7 million, two thirds from private donations and the rest from a co...
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Sister Berta's Legacy

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 11, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 11, 2026 "This is the spiritual commons. And the only way to regenerate it is the way it has always been regenerated: through small acts, repeated with presence, in the currency of the priceless… Not because the acts were large. Because the bandwidth was." — Nipun Mehta Sister Berta's Legacy In 1968, Sisters Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas were teaching at a Catholic elementary school. “One day, a mom said to us, we need a place for our small kids. And we were young and stupid and said, well, small kids can't be a probl...
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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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