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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 21, 2026 "Community is not a goal to be achieved but a gift to be received." — Parker Palmer Ramen, Potatoes, Pozole: Food as a Common Fabric Ron Guier developed a gift and love for cooking as a very young child. His parents were often absent for long periods of time, and it was either cook or not eat, usually with meager ingredients. His love for cooking continued into adulthood even when he went to prison. It took some time, but with limited access to items in the prison commissary and only a microwave, he began preparing speci...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 20, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 20, 2026 "The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena." — Carl Sagan Is Being a 'Speck' the Key to Happiness? Imagine a moment when the weight of your personal stresses vanishes, not by resolving each concern, but through the disarming realization of your own insignificance. This was the unexpected solace a student found in her astronomy class — "I feel relief because I am just a speck on a speck." In a world that clamors for us to enlarge ourselves in the eyes of others, embracing our smallness offer...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 19, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 19, 2026 "As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and clearer." — Rumi This Week's DailyGood Digest Reflecting on our news this past week, we journeyed through narratives of subtle yet profound transformation. We explored the deep resonance for  reframing heartbreak from a shattering to temporary dislocation, guiding us toward clarity in the infinite. It echoed in stories like an art experiment where strangers answered a mysterious red telephone on a bridge and entered a conversation tha...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 19, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 19, 2026 "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you have been." — Madeleine L'Engle Retired Accountant Becomes 'School Grandma' In Denver, Colorado's Family Star Montessori, retired accountant Sue Alexander finds new purpose. As a child leans against her, whispering, "I love squishy things," Alexander's arm (the "squishy thing") becomes a symbol of connection and care. This scene unfolds within the Early Childhood Service Corps, a program enlistin...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 18, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 18, 2026 "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Non-Speaking Autistic Novelist on His Journey From Write-off to Writer Woody Brown is a great writer. He graduated with top writing honors from UCLA, and completed his master’s at Columbia University. At age 28, he published his highly reviewed first book, Upward Bound. The book reveals the inner lives of neurotypical “clients” and those who care for them at an adult day care center. Woody is able t...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - Apr 17, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Apr 17, 2026 "As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and clearer." — Rumi Corrective for a Broken Heart Maria Popova reframes heartbreak not as shattering but as dislocation -- a temporary loss of bearing in a universe where even the north star changes every twenty-six thousand years. Her poem refuses "the threadbare drama, the stale catastrophism" of brokenness, insisting instead that the heart still beats, still trembles at beauty, and needs only "the firm, fastidious hand of time to slide it back i...

This week's inspiring video: Flipped Learning Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Apr 16, 2026   Flipped Learning   In "flipped learning," students watch podcasts of their teacher's lectures on their own time and spend their time in the classroom applying what they've le...