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A Fellow Diner's Quiet Noticing

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 26, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 26, 2026 "Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle." — Charles Glassman A Fellow Diner's Quiet Noticing Allen Renfrey had lost his wife in 2020 and his son in 2021. A few years on, he was living alone in a retirement complex. One night, he dined at a Vietnamese restaurant that he and his wife used to frequent, ordering his usual rice paper rolls. It happened to be Father's Day. After he finished and went to pay, the woman at the counter told him his meal was already taken care of; a couple who had just ...
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The Edible City Where Food Is Free

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 25, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 25, 2026 "The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all." — Wendell Berry The Edible City Where Food Is Free In the small German town of Andernach am Rhein, signs once said, "Keep Off The Grass." Today, they read, "Picking Allowed." Since 2010, the town has been replacing unused green spaces and ornamental plantings with edible gardens -- tomatoes climbing castle walls, herbs in raised beds along roundabouts, fig and quince trees threading through medieval stonework. What bega...
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How My Life Changed While Waiting Out Traffic

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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 ...
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To Loot You With Love (+ New Pod!)

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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...
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Love Your Life: An Illustrated Interview with Maurice Sendak

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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. ...
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How Your Tiny Actions Can Help Build a Kinder Society

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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...
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