Posts

How My Life Changed While Waiting Out Traffic

Image
DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 24, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 24, 2026 "... what you are is more beautiful than what you once thought you had to be." — Anna-Marie McLemore How My Life Changed While Waiting Out Traffic Claudia Chee spent her early twenties waiting out the heavy Bay Area traffic in the unassuming aisles of Costco -- eating samples, occasionally buying chips, feeling something she didn't yet have words for. Her journey is one lined with the exhausting arithmetic of high achievement: parental love encoded as pressure, two stints at Google that didn't bring happiness, a ...

To Loot You With Love (+ New Pod!)

Image
A 7-day pod on living and dying begins Aug 2, with hospice physician Maki Saionji Kawamura  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ View in Browser Brother David Steindl-Rast on his 100th birthday, expressing gratitude for the work of ServiceSpace To Loot You With Love One man’s coherence dissolved a civil war. What might a field of it do? In 1951, with Telangana’s villages caught between guerrillas by night and troops by day, a frail 55-year-old walked in without police escort. In a villag...

Love Your Life: An Illustrated Interview with Maurice Sendak

Image
This week's inspiring video: Love Your Life: An Illustrated Interview with Maurice Sendak Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jul 23, 2026   Love Your Life: An Illustrated Interview with Maurice Sendak   As our spirit grows, we become more in touch with the beauty of the world. ...

How Your Tiny Actions Can Help Build a Kinder Society

Image
DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 23, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 23, 2026 "As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency" — Caroline Kennedy How Your Tiny Actions Can Help Build a Kinder Society Researchers at Harvard have given a name to something most people already know in their bones: that a smile in a hallway, a word of thanks at a checkout counter, or a moment of genuine recognition can quietly shift the feel of a day. They call these gestures "microkindnesses" -- defined as small acts "motivated at least in part by genuine warm...

43 Days Alone, Rowing to Hawaii

Image
DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 22, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 22, 2026 "Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." — Rikki Rogers 43 Days Alone, Rowing to Hawaii Kelsey Pfendler pushed off from Monterey, California on May 21 with 2,400 miles (3862 kilometers) of open Pacific Ocean between her and land. 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes later, she rowed into Honolulu Harbor -- the fastest person of any gender, and the first American woman, to complete the solo mid-Pacific crossing. Hundreds waited on the dock to gre...

The City That Chose Nature Over Billboards

Image
DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 21, 2026 "Just remember that those things that get attention flourish." — Victoria Moran The City That Chose Nature Over Billboards When the French city of Grenoble declined to renew its billboard contracts in 2014, it did something quietly radical: it treated public space as belonging to the public. Over the following decade, 326 advertising structures came down, and in their place came trees, bike lanes, and open sightlines to the Alps -- a transformation so well-received that not one of the two election cycles since has seen a...