DailyGood: News That Inspires

On Community: The More-Than-Human World Mar 20-- Instead of imposing our human world onto the “more-than-human” world, Tess James helps us understand how the world arrives for her. “I step into the human world through the mirror of the more-than-human world, finding ease in its familiar safety. People exist in the background; my foreground is the present moment. Never empty. Always a canvas—Butterflies. Dried leaves. Twigs I ...

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Mimes Directing Traffic in Bogotá Had Surprisingly Loud Impacts Mar 17-- In 1995, a mayoral candidate in Bogota, Colombia, began his campaign with a slogan: “arm yourself with love.” Past efforts to “mitigate waves of violence with, well, violence, had proven ineffective.” His first effort was to tackle 1,500 annual traffic-related deaths. He hired a few mimes armed with signs that read correcto and incorrecto, who “mocked lawbreakers and applauded polite ...

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The Feminine Principle and Balance of Power Mar 14-- "Personal growth and human development are as old as the hills perhaps two of the more popular banners flapping in the breeze [in] the 21st century. So what’s new? Aren’t these two old chestnuts that humanity has been chewing over throughout history? The issues may indeed be the same, but what is new is the emergence of a suppressed part ...

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The Fault of Time Mar 9-- Erica Berry takes us on a journey from predictability to uncertainty recalling a visit with her grandparents after horrific Montana wildfires and charred ponderosa pines. “To love the trees, to live among them, is to reconcile myself not only to my impermanence, but to theirs.” Then in a visit to Oregon, where a massive Cascadia earthquake eruption is overdue, she ...

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Dear Sunday: Play Mar 7-- Writer Lindsey Wayland invites us to examine our thinking around play. Some may think play is something only children do, and many of us forget how to play as we age, “reinforced by a culture that measures worth through productivity.” Afraid of embarrassment or feeling foolish, we lose our freedom – “freedom to fail, freedom to change our minds, freedom ...

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How to Move Beyond Outrage Toward Understanding Mar 5-- "Many of us are outraged today. We dig in our heels around our beliefs on abortion, vaccines, immigration, or gender. We believe we are morally right and the other side is wrong. And the other side also believes they are morally right and we are wrong," writes journalist Sahar Habib Ghazi. She interviews Kurt Gray, who for 20 years, has ...

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