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How College Faculty and Students Are Reviving Local News

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Nov 06, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Nov 06, 2026 "Wisdom is not information gathered across years. It is relationship deepened across years." — Ernesto Van Peborgh How College Faculty and Students Are Reviving Local News Northwestern University reports that “over 3,000 newspapers have closed in the U.S. in the past 20 years.” It not only means limited access to local news, but job loss for staff who live in and have lo...

I Still Have No Idea

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This week's inspiring video: I Still Have No Idea Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Nov 05, 2026   I Still Have No Idea   We spend so m...

The Birds Planted the Grove

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Nov 05, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Nov 05, 2026 "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." — Nelson Henderson The Birds Planted the Grove For centuries, the sacred groves of Rajasthan were understood as human gifts to nature -- places where belief drew a boundary and the forest was allowed to breathe. But as this essay quietly argues, the order of that story is wrong: peo...

28 Years Walking, One Mother's Doorstep

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Nov 04, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Nov 04, 2026 "Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality." — Abraham Lincoln 28 Years Walking, One Mother's Doorstep Karl Bushby left Chile on foot in 1998 at age 29, with golden hair and two iron rules: no machines to carry him forward, and no coming home — not for illness, not for grief, not for anything. Twenty-eight years, 75 million steps, one polar bear encounte...

Squares of Love That Calmed a Child

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Nov 03, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Nov 03, 2026 "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." — Winston Churchill Squares of Love That Calmed a Child A small knitted tube — open at both ends, just wide enough for two hands — and a child with anxiety found each other in an Austrian classroom. That quiet moment is at the heart of Ursula Kermer's decade-long project, Mehr ist Mehr ("More is More"), a volunteer network that turns individual squares of yarn into blankets, boleros, and twiddle muffs for people moving through hard seaso...

The Tenderheart and the Roughneck

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Nov 02, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Nov 02, 2026 "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." — Carl Sagan The Tenderheart and the Roughneck A journalist spent the last year of his dying father's life doing what he had always done with strangers but never with the man who had hurt him most: asking real questions and listening without flinching. What he uncovered -- in recorded conversations, old photographs, and two weathered shoeboxes hidden in plain sight -- was a pattern of compounding grief, passed quietly from generation to gen...

This Month's Stories ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Nov 01, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Nov 01, 2026 "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu This Month's DailyGood Digest As autumn leaves descend, our collection of stories this month revealed the profound impact of personal and collective growth. Gaurav Marathe's Soul Carnival at IIM Ranchi reveals a vibrant ecosystem of generosity, where students discover the joy of giving without expectation. Meanwhile, Chau Quang Duong invites us to reconnect with the earth in a journey back to ourselves , reminding us of t...