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Colorado Mayor Sleeps at Homeless Shelter Every Week

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 29, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 29, 2026 "Life is not a backdrop to our politics or technologies. Life is the central reality we are called to serve." — Nancy Roof Colorado Mayor Sleeps at Homeless Shelter Every Week Mike Coffman, a U.S. military veteran who held many government offices, and is the current mayor of Aurora, Colorado, spent a week in homeless encampments to learn from the inhabitants. As mayor, he didn’t talk about it, or hire consultants to study it; he went to see and listen to people first hand. As “Homeless Mike,” he slept “covered with a tar...
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This Month's Stories ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 28, 2026 "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires standing ready and unshaken against sudden turns of fortune." — Marcus Aurelius This Month's DailyGood Digest This month, DailyGood explored subtle yet profound shifts that guide our unfolding narratives. Nic Askew invites us to the origin point of stories , encouraging a deeper understanding of storytelling’s evolutionary role. Leena Wilde Ryan offers solace to  writers of a new story , urging them to find courage amid exist...
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The Man Who Uncovers Remarkable Forgotten Lives

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 28, 2026 "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." — Thomas Campbell The Man Who Uncovers Remarkable Forgotten Lives Scrolling through videos on social media, one man was about to swipe past Simon Howard's video of researching the history of the names on a random grave from 1934, when he realized, "It hit me: that’s exactly who I’ll be in a century. Just some random guy with his own ego, desires and goals, completely forgotten." Simon Howard, whose work involves helping people trace their ancestral pasts, w...
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Smashing Yesterday's Croissants for a Better Tomorrow

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 27, 2026 "Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet." — Tristram Stuart Smashing Yesterday's Croissants for a Better Tomorrow At a Paris bakery called Demain (the French word for "tomorrow"), yesterday's unsold croissants and sourdough loaves don't go to waste; they go on sale for half price, rescued from partner bakeries across the city and given a second chance to nourish someone. "All of this would have ended up in the trashcan," says...
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The Town That Gave Trees Legal Rights

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 26, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 26, 2026 "Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth." — Hermann Hesse The Town That Gave Trees Legal Rights In a small Quebec town of 2,000 people, something quietly extraordinary happened on June 9th: city council voted unanimously to recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own -- the right to life, to natural growth, to integrity, and to regeneration. Terrasse-Vaudreuil, built in the woods west of Montreal, became the first municipality in C...
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The Granny Grommets

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This week's inspiring video: The Granny Grommets Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jun 25, 2026   The Granny Grommets   Age is no barrier - to enjoying the ocean or to enjoying life.  This is the premise of the short film "The Granny Grommets" by Leah Rustomgee, winner of...
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A Wall Street Refugee Finds His Poetry Again

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 25, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 25, 2026 "True love requires the ego to fall silent so that something larger than ourselves can finally move through us." — Nguyễn Phương Lam A Wall Street Refugee Finds His Poetry Again He co-founded a global private equity empire, traveled to over 130 countries, and checked every box the world said mattered. Then, he looked inward and found, as he puts it, "the ego doing all of it." Nguyen Phuong Lam offers a unique reckoning written from inside the machine, by someone who helped run it. Born in Vietnam, Lam traces a ...
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