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How a Spinal Cord Injury Seeded a Platform for Dancing with Wheels

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 23, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 23, 2026 "Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." — Henri Nouwen How a Spinal Cord Injury Seeded a Platform for Dancing with Wheels After a 2018 road accident left her paraplegic, Priya Sharma sat in her wheelchair at her sister's wedding and, at her siblings' insistence, danced. It was "the first time I felt joy after the accident," she observed. That moment became the seed of Dance With Wheels, a platform she founded in 2024 that connects women and girls with di...

A Minneapolis Cafe Removed Its Prices -- and Business Is Thriving

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 22, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 22, 2026 "Recognizing “enoughness” is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more." — Robin Wall Kimmerer A Minneapolis Cafe Removed Its Prices -- and Business Is Thriving Earlier this year, a Minneapolis café quietly removed the prices from its menu -- and profits are up. Owner Dylan Alverson transformed Post Modern Times into a donation-only restaurant in February 2026, initially as an act of social activism after a series of community deaths he witnessed up close. What happened next surprised even him....

This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 21, 2026 "Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone." — Margaret Wheatley This Week's DailyGood Digest This week's inspirations remind us of the interconnectedness embedded in our existence. Storyteller Leena Wilde Ryan delved us into the power of standing at the  threshold of a new story , complete with plot twists and the punctuation of our intentions. Follow...

Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on?

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 21, 2026 "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." — Pablo Picasso Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on? When Cork multimedia artist Elinor O'Donovan was working part-time as a receptionist just to pay rent, an entire film career was waiting, unrealized, on the other side of financial precarity. Ireland's newly permanent basic income for artists -- the first such trial in history to become permanent -- changed that, and in doing so, raised a questio...

Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 20, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 20, 2026 "We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go." — Judith Viorst Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go Maria Popova's meditation on Judith Viorst's Necessary Losses offers something quietly radical: the idea that loss is not the opposite of a full life, but its very architecture. Viorst maps the full terrain of what humans relinquish -- ...

At the Threshold of a New Story

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 19, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 19, 2026 "The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time." — Mary Oliver At the Threshold of a New Story Leena Wilde Ryan hadn't written anything she felt proud of in years. An old life burned down and a new life still rooting, words seemed held hostage by questions of their worth in the world. Then an invitation arrived, carrying what she calls "the right code to bypass every self-inflicted fir...

Walking for Peace

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This week's inspiring video: Walking for Peace Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Jun 18, 2026   Walking for Peace   Satish Kumar commemorates the 50th Anniversary of his Peace Walk from India to Washington D.C. with a 50 mile walk along the River Thames. Watch this short video...