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The Amputees Farming in Sierra Leone

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 28, 2026 "There is no greater disability in society than the inability to see a person as more." — Robert M. Hensel The Amputees Farming in Sierra Leone After Sierra Leone's civil war left nearly 30,000 people without limbs and, too often, without dignity, pastor-turned-farmer Mambud Samai refused to accept that this was simply how things had to be. He has since taught over 100 amputees to grow food sustainably, turning smallholder plots into sources of income, community, and self-determination. One early participant, Mustaph...
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The Delivery Rider Who Wrote 6,000 Poems

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 27, 2026 "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." — T. S. Eliot The Delivery Rider Who Wrote 6,000 Poems He squeezes poems from the same hours as his deliveries. Wang Jibing rides through the streets of Kunshan, China with food orders strapped to his back and verses forming in his mind -- and this year, he won China's Lu Xun Literary Prize, one of the country's highest literary honors. His collection, Low Flight, was built from the ground up: over 140 interviews with fellow delivery riders, 60 questionnai...
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This Month's Stories ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 26, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 26, 2026 "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." — Lao Tzu This Month's DailyGood Digest This month's roundup of stories highlight the power of small, dedicated acts of presence. We delved into an array of experiences that mirror the human potential for inspiring possibility and compassion. Two scientists researching human flourishing around the world reminded us that small gestures weave a kinder society. Influencer Claudia Chee's reflects on how wandering the aisles of a wh...
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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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