Katy, a very caring ROTC junior is interested in helping those needing care in hospitals. She was so excited to see Bogart as she had recently lost one of her two Irish setters. She posed at the Lion Shrine with a very content Bogart for today’s picture. Elsie, who was walking the campus grounds said “this is exactly what this world needs” and immediately put one of the stickers she took to good use. Tim, a construction materials testing engineer, talked with me on his lunch hour about making the world a better place his new grandchild will grow up in. He wished me all the best this world has to offer. WTAJ reporter Ashantai and cameraman Tom stopped by to do a story on One Million Acts Of Kindness. They thought it would be a great way to spread word about my mission to central Pennsylvania. A passerby said “There should be more news like this on TV?”
During the late evening hours the streets were crowded with parents and students, most of them are here for summer graduation tomorrow. I had the fortune of meeting Asa (a green energy guru) and his wife April, she owns the Enchanted Kitchen, a vegetarian restaurant in State College. They were so happy to see The Kindness Bus everywhere they were, as it moved from spot to spot.
I talked to over 500 people on this very long day on campus, not bad for a visit to a campus I wasn’t planning on visiting until next spring. I’ll be back.
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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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.