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Writing as Spellcasting

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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...
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Bare Hands, Bandana, Six Million Bees

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 13, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 13, 2026 "Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope." — Christy Lefteri Bare Hands, Bandana, Six Million Bees Clarence Chua shows up to a bee rescue with nothing but a bandana and bare hands -- no suit, no gloves, just attention and respect. In six years, this 42-year-old in Singapore has relocated roughly 6 million bees, one nest at a time, moving entire colonies -- queen, workers, larvae and all -- to apiaries he manages, including one in his own backyard. Where pest contr...
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This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 12, 2026 "Each of us has some specific skill we can offer. We give what we can, every time we can. ... And if everybody's doing that, then we are changing the world." — Brian Conroy This Week's DailyGood Digest This week's stories reveal how simple acts of kindness and service can ripple through communities and generations. We explored the interconnectedness of our actions and their impact on the world. Starting with the  Indigenous women who have fended off savanna fires in Brazil by understandi...
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Three Medicines: One Physician's Journey

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 12, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 12, 2026 "The body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body." — Jiddu Krishnamurti Three Medicines: One Physician's Journey Dr. Cynthia Li had done everything right. She spent a decade rebuilding her health from the inside out after conventional medicine found nothing wrong with her -- no diagnosis, no treatment, just labs that read normal while her body fell apart. She documented every step, wrote the book, and then collapsed again on the final page. What brok...
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She Once Visited Food Pantries. Now She Runs 20.

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 11, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 11, 2026 "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — Anne Frank She Once Visited Food Pantries. Now She Runs 20. Alyssa Curtis drives through a town in Michigan, US, with a trunk full of diapers and microwaveable mac-and-cheese cups. She restocks the 20 little pantries her nonprofit has quietly planted across the region. The Shame Free Collective is exactly what its name promises: no forms, no judgment, no humiliation tax on hunger. Curtis knows that tax personally. She grew...
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The Indigenous Women Who Stopped a Burning Savanna

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 10, 2026 "To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language." — Robin Wall Kimmerer The Indigenous Women Who Stopped a Burning Savanna When fire swept through the Santana Indigenous Territory in 2018, the men went for help and the women watched the land burn. From that helplessness, something unexpected grew: a volunteer fire brigade where 25 of 45 trained firefighters are women -- grandmothers, teenagers, educators -- defending 73,000 hectares of Brazil's Cerrado that the state has largely abandoned. In a year when...
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Living in the Gift Economy

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This week's inspiring video: Living in the Gift Economy Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jul 09, 2026   Living in the Gift Economy   In 2015 Jo Nemeth left her job, closed her bank account and said goodbye to the last of her money. Eleven years later, Jo lives a healthy, fulf...
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