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Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on?

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 21, 2026 "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." — Pablo Picasso Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on? When Cork multimedia artist Elinor O'Donovan was working part-time as a receptionist just to pay rent, an entire film career was waiting, unrealized, on the other side of financial precarity. Ireland's newly permanent basic income for artists -- the first such trial in history to become permanent -- changed that, and in doing so, raised a questio...

Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 20, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 20, 2026 "We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go." — Judith Viorst Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go Maria Popova's meditation on Judith Viorst's Necessary Losses offers something quietly radical: the idea that loss is not the opposite of a full life, but its very architecture. Viorst maps the full terrain of what humans relinquish -- ...

At the Threshold of a New Story

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 19, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 19, 2026 "The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time." — Mary Oliver At the Threshold of a New Story Leena Wilde Ryan hadn't written anything she felt proud of in years. An old life burned down and a new life still rooting, words seemed held hostage by questions of their worth in the world. Then an invitation arrived, carrying what she calls "the right code to bypass every self-inflicted fir...

Walking for Peace

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This week's inspiring video: Walking for Peace Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jun 18, 2026   Walking for Peace   Satish Kumar commemorates the 50th Anniversary of his Peace Walk from India to Washington D.C. with a 50 mile walk along the River Thames. Watch this short video...

Japan Fans Clean World Cup Stadium After Game

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 18, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 18, 2026 "Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree." — Marian Wright Edelman Japan Fans Clean World Cup Stadium After Game After a 2-2 draw at a World Cup game in Texas, people in the stands witnessed collective behavior that doesn't normally happen there: Japan's fans stayed behind, pulling out blue plastic bags and quietly picking up every cup, wrapper, and scrap of litter they could find. No announcement prompted them. No staff asked. They simply did what they had been...

The Two Sides of Grace

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 16, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 16, 2026 "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. What you love is a sign from your deeper self of what you are to do." — Joseph Campbell The Two Sides of Grace At twenty years old, Christopher Lowman sat down with an Ayurvedic doctor in London who did nothing but listen to his pulse -- and then began describing his inner life with an accuracy that had no business being possible. Something shattered in that moment. And his near-perfect GPA as well as his path to law school went with it. What followed was not a plan but ...

This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 14, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 14, 2026 "When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." — Lao Tzu This Week's DailyGood Digest This week's stories brought us to diverse corners of the world through the lenses of inner growth and systemic change. We tuned into disarming moments of resilience across Africa with the rediscovery of rare bongos in Kenya's Maasai Mau forest and a pangolin pup's rescue in a cardboard box in Johannesburg. In Uganda, a monk's remarkably improbable journey illumina...