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Introducing Story Booth — Where Stories Are Witnessed …

Someone tells the truth about their life while others sit and listen. We turn it into a story here on DailyGood. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

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A machine can generate endless words. It can’t live a life, or tell you the truth of one.

Dear Friends,

For nearly 30 years, DailyGood — a project of ServiceSpace — has shared a daily dose of good news with more than 138,000 readers. We’d love to introduce you to something new it has been building: Story Booth.

We’re surrounded by more words than any generation before us, and plenty of them were written in seconds by something that isn’t a person. But the thing that actually moves us hasn’t changed: someone telling the truth about their own life, while other people listen.

The theologian Howard Thurman had a name for this: the sound of the genuine. He thought each of us carries it, and that learning to hear it in yourself takes most of a lifetime. Story Booth is our attempt to make room for that sound.

Here’s how it works. One person shares a real turning point from their life in an unhurried Zoom conversation. A moderator draws the story out with gentle questions. A few listeners keep their cameras on and quietly hold space, there to give of their attention rather than react. We record it, and from that, a first-person story takes shape and gets published here on DailyGood. No stage, no slides, nothing to sell — and no agenda but love.

Stories Already Told

A few of the lives that have passed through the booth so far:

Ruth Pittard A Love Story, 80 Years and Counting — Ruth, in her eighties, has stood at her town square every Wednesday for eight years, holding a sign that just says LOVE.
Vasco Gaspar A Hummingbird at Every Crossroads — Vasco learned to follow the small signs instead of the big checks, even turning down €50,000 for a month’s work when just €2,000 sat in his bank account.
Rudy Karsan What the Glitter Couldn’t Give Me — Rudy sold his company for over a billion dollars, felt strangely nothing, and found his way back to joy through three words: I don’t know.
There are others too: a self-taught 17-year-old physicist in Zambia, a woman who knocked on 185 doors of worship in one month, a self-published teen writer, and a healer who found grace on both sides of a long illness.

Step Into the Circle

Story Booth only works because people hold space for it. There are three ways to join us:

Be a listener. Join an upcoming session on Zoom and just be there while someone tells their story. You don’t have to say a word.

Share your story. Carrying a turning point you’ve never quite told? We’d love to hear it.

Nominate someone. Know a quiet hero whose story deserves to be witnessed? Point us toward them.

Explore Story Booth →
📜 Coming Up — Join as a Listener

Each of these is an open circle. Click any session to reserve your spot — times will show in your own timezone.

Tue, Jul 7 · 2:00 PM PT

Dr. Scott Levine — “Holistic Healing in Community Presence” — A chiropractor and holistic healer on tending the body as a whole system and nurturing a digital community of well-wishers. Join as a listener →

Fri, Jul 10 · 4:00 PM PT

Claudia Chee — “How I Became Costco Claudia” — From a Google job and burnout, to teaching yoga and piano, to an unexpected second act built entirely out of joy. Join as a listener →

Sat, Jul 11 · 7:00 AM PT

Leena Wilde Ryan — “Motherhood Sparked Heartful Creation” — Author, storyteller, and co-founder of a digital community of blessings (literally!) on heartful creation sparked by her motherhood journey and beyond. Join as a listener →

Wed, Jul 15 · 8:00 AM PT

Rama & Alex — 7 Years Connecting Hearts — On a 7-year walking pilgrimage around the world, fostering a “home for humanity” from one place to the next. Join as a listener →

Fri, Jul 17 · 11:30 AM PT

Bronson Chang — Pure Aloha ‘Dreamalization’ — A serial entrepreneur, writer, and father with an expansive heart, Bronson’s journey is one of community, family, faith and “pure aloha dreamalization”. Join as a listener →

And on the horizon: “What’s Your Relationship to Prayer?” with Wanjiru (Veronica) Macharia — a mystic in her seventies who attends daily mass, serves as a death doula, knits booties for premature babies half a world away, and is learning to play the piano. Plus, a Catholic nun serving unhoused and refugee populations, and young peacemakers around the world!
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Somewhere in you is a story only you can tell.

Come listen for the sound of the genuine, in someone else’s life and maybe in your own. 🙏

For over 29 years, DailyGood has been a volunteer-led movement sharing uplifting stories that connect hearts and inspire action — reaching 138,000+ readers with no ads, no agendas, and no asks. Change the story, change the world.
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KAMOME (Seagull)

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Jul 02, 2026
KAMOME (Seagull)

KAMOME (Seagull)

What would it take to prove just how much we have in common? This is the inspiration behind the film “KAMOME” made to show the auspicious friendship between the citizens of Rikuzentakata, Japan and Cresecent City, California. The residents of both cities share a passion for working on the ocean and a deep love and respect for the dangers as well as beauty of Mother Nature. The shared tragedy of a tsunami revealed a bond of loss and resilience – a Oneness of spirit and shared humanity. Through their story we too may realize the bond shared with all others on the Earth though we may never see or talk to each other. No matter where we are, there are others like us who labor and love just like we do, brothers and sisters on this planet we all call home.
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The Circle That Will Not Close

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Jul 02, 2026
The Circle That Will Not Close
“The essence of all things is emptiness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

The Circle That Will Not Close

When Shoukei Matsumoto led a simple floor-sweeping exercise at a gathering, he noticed nearly everyone had the same story running through their minds: “Am I doing this right? Faster. Get it done.” Beneath that voice, Matsumoto notes, is an ethos of optimization. “The word optimization, by itself, is empty. You always optimize toward something. Toward ‘clean,’ when sweeping. Toward ‘results,’ at work. That ‘clean,’ that ‘results,’ becomes the target. But look closely, and the target turns out to be something merely set in place. Let’s say clean means this. Let’s say results mean this number. Someone, somewhere, agreed to it. At the start, it was a provisional frame.” Now, that frame has become mistaken for reality itself. But “no frame is the world.” Drawing on the Japanese concept of shu-ha-ri, Matsumoto traces how mastery is not about leaving the frames, but rather, cultivating the capacity to move seamlessly among them: “entering and leaving, never binding yourself to any one.” Through the analogy of calligraphy painting, he describes the process of engaging with (but being empty of) forms: the moment the brush lifts off the paper on its own, the circle stays open, and the self that was watching quietly disappears into the act of drawing.

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Be The Change

Today, notice a form or provisional frame in your life — a “let’s say” that has quietly hardened into “it is” in your mind. Perhaps it’s a measure of success, productivity, or worth that you inherited or agreed to at some point and have since stopped questioning. Push yourself to find another definition, another way of seeing or measuring it.

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