We made the mid-morning drive from Ann Arbor to East Lansing, home of the Spartans of Michigan State. Chris, a finance major from Chicago was very helpful and also recommended the subject for today’s photograph. Meagan, a parking services employee said “I don’t know where everyone is today,” but pointed me in a couple of promising directions. We scoured the campus grounds to look for activities. We discovered a cheerleading competition of over 250 high school girls competing on the Michigan State campus; the parents and kids loved Bogart, The Kindness Bus and my message. We drove into Lansing and before my feet hit the ground I was told the first thing I needed to do, by Julie, a state employee, was to visit Virg Bernero, Mayor of Lansing, and then visit her husband Brendan from the Convention and Visitors Bureau. Earlier this week, Virg won a state primary election and will be in a good position to promote One Million Acts Of Kindness in government. Brendan told me that he was going to write in the Bureau’s blog about my mission. A local resident, Mark and I had lunch to learn about how I was able to make the transformation from my life in Cleveland to a life of living in The Kindness Bus. He is on the path to doing some great work for others in this world. His website, imagenate.org, has some wonderfully thought provoking ideas.
I spent the remainder of the afternoon on the Michigan State campus talking to whomever would listen. The Red Cross blood mobile was on campus today so I let them dispense with a pint of my AB- high test.
The evening hours were spent back in Lansing at a street music festival which gave The Kindness Bus Tour a great bit of exposure to this captive audience.
Earlier in the day a very caring Ali, from a local coffee shop expressed how awesome and necessary this kindness movement is for everyone. Big compliment! Thank you.
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.
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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.