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Three Generations, One Food Truck

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 29, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 29, 2026 "You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair." — Ancient Proverb Three Generations, One Food Truck In 1974, Travis Holmes Sr. launched Birmingham, Alabama's first food truck. His son grew up beside him on it, racing to chop onions faster than his father. Then, at 26, that son was killed — leaving behind an infant and a grandfather who had to find a reason to go back to work. What Travis Sr. found, eventually, was that the truck was the o...

Principal Refuses to Abandon Homeless Student, Despite It Costing His Job

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 28, 2026 "For me, the litmus test to know whether or not I'm doing the right thing is to examine whether my decisions are love-based or fear-based." — Robert Gant Principal Refuses to Abandon Homeless Student, Despite It Costing His Job When Rob Burnside learned that a homeless student named Landerius Hayes was sleeping in his car but could no longer legally attend his school due to a change of address, he went home that day and told his wife about the situation. The first words out of her mouth were, "Well, he can stay ...

How To Build a More Inclusive Dinner Table

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This week's inspiring video: How To Build a More Inclusive Dinner Table Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Aug 27, 2026   How To Build a More Inclusive Dinner Table   How we eat, and who we eat with matters much more than we realize. For generations Muslims and Jews have often ...

Read the Signals and Stay Open

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 27, 2026 "There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don’t need a friend. Then there’s a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there’s the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already." — Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach Read the Signals and Stay Open At fourteen, Shmuel Klein -- a scholarly boy who knew nothing of war -- was handed a prison full of soldiers and told to run it. He couldn't, so he told them the truth: you run it. I'll sit up f...

Amazon Canopy Bridges Lead to 15K+ Safe Road Crossings

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 25, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 25, 2026 "It's not enough to love animals; we must actively protect and preserve them." — Jane Goodall Amazon Canopy Bridges Lead to 15K+ Safe Road Crossings Just hours before installing the first canopy bridges near Alta Floresta, biologist Fernanda Abra found two marmosets dead on the road — a species already threatened with extinction. That grief became the baseline against which everything that followed would be measured. Eight rope bridges later, camera traps documented 15,000 safe wildlife crossings over 15 months, with...

My Shift From Sales to a Farm Sanctuary with 150 Animals

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 24, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 24, 2026 "Perhaps the first rule of everything we endeavor to do is pay attention. Perhaps the second is to be patient. And perhaps the third is to be attentive to what the body knows." — Ashley Glowiak My Shift From Sales to a Farm Sanctuary with 150 Animals Andreas Nussbaumer, with credit to his wife, recounts being lured away from a successful business career and the empty feeling that came with it “into just being, surrounded by the vegetables and the animals.” They steward a sanctuary for rescued farm animals in Weppersdorf,...

This Month's Stories ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Aug 23, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Aug 23, 2026 "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu This Month's DailyGood Digest In the gentle unfolding of this month's stories, we found reflections on the power of community, memory, and the human spirit. In a poignant reflection on loss,  a father's grief becomes a rainbow , offering a glimpse of hope amid sorrow. We remember Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, who passed away this month, through her insights on generous listening , showing how true healing can occur through a...