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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...

'This Is the First Time I've Touched Grass': the Colleges Giving Social Prescriptions

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Nov 01, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Nov 01, 2026 "By discovering nature, you discover yourself." — Maxime Lagacé 'This Is the First Time I've Touched Grass': the Colleges Giving Social Prescriptions Somewhere between the gorges and botanic gardens of Cornell University's campus, a student on a guided nature walk looked up from hours of screen time and said something that stopped the walk leader cold: "This is the first time I've actually touched grass." It was a small confession, but it carried the weight of an epidemic. Across U.S. campus...

School Renamed After Janitor Who Spent 39 Years Uplifting Students

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 31, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 31, 2026 "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." — Jane Goodall School Renamed After Janitor Who Spent 39 Years Uplifting Students For 39 years, Marilyn Hampton swept floors, bought supplies for children who couldn't afford them, and turned smiles "up instead of down" -- work she once measured against a college degree she never earned and found herself wanting. The custodia...

How I Learned to Read and Write at 42

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 30, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 30, 2026 "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." — Mignon McLaughlin How I Learned to Read and Write at 42 For 42 years, Peter navigated a world built on words he couldn't read -- memorizing road signs, mapping routes in his mind, quietly relying on his wife -- until a moment of panic in a supermarket aisle, afraid he might accidentally poison his family with the wrong milk, made it impossible to keep going as before. What followed was three years of twice-weekly sessions with a ...

Mirror to the World

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This week's inspiring video: Mirror to the World Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Oct 29, 2026   Mirror to the World   The vast majority of us function as if we live in a world that we imagine as "separable" -  a world where humans can be separated out from in this cosmo...

Nonprofit Turns Vacant Lots Into Free Fruit Orchards

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 29, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 29, 2026 "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." — Gertrude Jekyll Nonprofit Turns Vacant Lots Into Free Fruit Orchards A small orchard planted 13 years ago at a shuttered Kansas CIty elementary school has grown into a national movement that has inspired more than 847 orchards with 14,000 trees in 17 cities, all producing fruit for people living within walking distance. Kansas City itself now has 248 free orchards, with almost 4,600 fruit, nut and berry trees, more than any other US city. After a community ga...