Strawberry Fields was the perfect place for The Kindness Bus to land for a few hours this very hot Sunday afternoon. What a sight we must have been for the Upper West Side. We creatively parked on W72nd just feet from Central Park West. One of the most photographed buildings in Manhattan, The Dakota, had serious competition from The Kindness Bus, as avid shutterbugs snapped as many pictures as I have ever seen taken. I must have been asked several times if we had any affiliations with the building. I guess kindness and The Dakota’s most famous tenant had a few things in common, the bus even has the saying “All we are saying, is give kindness a chance” written on it’s side.
I must have talked with people from twenty different countries during my brief stay near Central Park this afternoon. It’s places like this, that One Million Acts Of Kindness has a great chance of spreading across the globe. This short stay in the city proves one thing, New York City is ready to embrace this kindness movement with open arms. We will be back in NYC, in about ten days, for an extended stay.
It’s off to Long Island for the next three days, with the hopes of inspiring kids in a lower school with a big interest in kindness.
Please help us spread our message of a Goal of Kindness to schoolchildren across the country. Your donations are crucial to making this a reality.
Mail donations to:
One Million Acts Of Kindness
PO Box 770054
Lakewood, OH 44107
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Bogart is my travel companion on The Kindness Bus Tour for the next ten years. We will be on the road traveling to campuses across the country. Bogart is a eight year old Boston Terrier. He is a great people dog... he loves meeting new people. I am Bogart's fourth owner in his short 8 years of life... Not because of him but because his three previous owner's lifestyles changed after they took him in... Lucky for me!! Bogart is the luckiest, most spoiled dog on the face of the earth. He loves the bus and he loves to travel. Please come and visit him when we are on your campus.
The Blue Bird Corporation donated this amazing bus to One Million Acts of Kindness, allowing us the continue this initiative. It has been painted to closely resemble the original Kindness Bus. It will last well beyond the ten years of this mission. A very big thank you to Blue Bird from Bob Votruba and Bogart too!!
The original Kindness bus has been donated to a professor at Virginia Tech who will use it on campus and at schools in the Blacksburg area. The Kindness Bus will continue to inspire and comfort residents, students and visitors in that area for years to come.
One Million Acts Of Kindness is a goal. A goal for each person to individually perform One Million Acts Of Kindness in their life. Can you imagine a greater goal for one's life? It is a constant mind-set of kindness every day of your life for the next fifty-five years. Doing for others and kindness in your heart for everyone. It is my wish that you will dedicate your life to a charity... finding the passion in your heart for something or someone in need.
As a father of three college age kids I am concerned for the world in which all kids will live. A great way to create a safer, more caring world is for everyone to start their lifetime goal of One Million Acts Of Kindness. So I bought a bus, had about sixty family members, friends and neighbors help paint it and began a ten year journey with my Boston Terrier, Bogart, to college campuses across the country hoping to convince as many of you as possible about this much needed movement for this world. I love you guys too much to sit back and not do anything about this. Let's start a kindness movement in this country today to change the direction this world is headed!! You are the change that this world needs.