<div dir="auto">Refreshing read to begin 2024. Thank you for sharing this gift of love. Judi White</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 1, 2024, 10:08 AM Karen Snyder via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">It is good to be overwhelmed by the positive to start the year off, isn’t it!?!   Karen<br id="m_7187974045703314502lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">DailyGood <<a href="mailto:dg-news@m.servicespace.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dg-news@m.servicespace.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">January 1, 2024 at 7:02:47 AM CST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:karen.snyder10@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">karen.snyder10@gmail.com</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">DailyGood <<a href="mailto:dg-news@t.servicespace.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dg-news@t.servicespace.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><table width="100%" cellspacing="" cellpadding="0" style="font-family:MicrosoftSansSerif;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background:url("http://www.dailygood.org/images/nletter/bg_01.gif") left top repeat rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration:none;margin:0px;padding:10px"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:1.2em;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",serif;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px"><font size="-2">You're receiving this email because you are a DailyGood subscriber.<br>Trouble Viewing? On a mobile?<span> </span><a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/www.dailygood.org%2Fview.php%3Fop%3Dnletter%26qid%3D10059/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/1/Kg-MJMbTwb" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Just click here</a>. Not interested anymore?<span> </span><a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/www.servicespace.org%2Fjoin%2Funsubscribe.php%3Fstep%3D2%26email%3Dkaren.snyder10%40gmail.com/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/2/cmy3vorlkH" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Unsubscribe</a>.</font></div></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table width="585" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border:1px solid rgb(187,187,187);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="545" bgcolor="#eeeeee" style="border-bottom-width:3px;border-bottom-style:double;border-bottom-color:rgb(221,221,221);margin:0px 20px 10px;padding:0px"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/www.dailygood.org/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/3/4kTCSX4zsU" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);outline:currentcolor;text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><img src="http://www.dailygood.org/images/nletter/logo2.jpg" alt="DailyGood" title="DailyGood" width="77" height="74" style="bor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n the news often informs us of all that's going wrong in the world, Future Crunch reviewed 400 favorite stories of progress to offer up their top 66 list of things that have gone right in 2023.<span> </span><a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/www.dailygood.org%2Fmore.php%3Fn%3D10059/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/5/N1CidDi9zs" title="66 Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023" style="color:rgb(0,51,255);text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">{ read more }</a></div><h3 title="Be The Change" style="color:rgb(204,102,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:1.2em;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",serif;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;letter-spacing:1px;margin:0.25em 0px;padding:10px 0px 0px">Be The Change</h3><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:100;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",serif;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;margin:0.4em 0px;padding:0px 2px">Share a story of something going right in the world.<span> </span></div></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top"><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="545"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" align="right" width="440"><a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/www.dailygood.org%2Fview.php%3Fqid%3D10059/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/6/rl98HUXGHE" style="color:rgb(204,102,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5em;font-family:helvetica,georgia,"times new roman",serif;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">COMMENT</a><span> </span>|<span> </span><a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/www.dailygood.org%2Fview.php%3Fqid%3D10059/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/6/rl98HUXGHE" style="color:rgb(204,102,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5em;font-family:helvetica,georgia,"times new roman",serif;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">RATE</a>     </td><td valign="middle" nowrap><a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/www.dailygood.org%2Findex.php%3Fpg%3Demail%26qid%3D10059/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/7/Rkeoeg42_-" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><img src="http://www.dailygood.org/images/nletter/icon_email.jpg" height="32" width="32" alt="Email" title="Email" border="0"></a>   <a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/twitter.com%2Fshare%3Ftext%3DRT%2B%2540daily_good%2B66%2BGood%2BNews%2BStories%2BYou%2BDidn%2527t%2BHear%2BAbout%2Bin%2B2023%26url%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailygood.org%2Fview.php%3Fqid%3D10059/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/8/Rw479ARLag" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><img width="32" height="32" src="http://www.dailygood.org/images/nletter/twitterx32.png" title="Twitter" alt="Twitter" border="0"></a>   <a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/www.facebook.com%2Fsharer.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailygood.org%2Fmore.php%3Fn%3D10059/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/9/L-PASw-TZP" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><img width="32" height="32" src="http://www.dailygood.org/images/nletter/facebookx32.png" title="FaceBook" alt="FaceBook" border="0" style="margin-right:10px"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="545" style="margin:0px 20px 10px;padding:0px 0px 10px"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><br><h4 style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:1.2em;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",serif;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold"><a href="https://click.pstmrk.it/3/www.dailygood.org/0W2I/D16yAQ/AQ/8df44668-84c8-426a-bad8-f34a6afc47a4/3/4kTCSX4zsU" style="color:rgb(204,102,0);text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">DailyGood</a><span> </span>is a volunteer-run initiative that 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