One Million Acts Of Kindness was featured 2 years ago, in the AARP newsletter which was sent out to its twenty million members. I received over twelve hundred emails because of the article, most of them wishing me well, some of them wanting to know more about The Kindness Bus Tour and still others offering a place to stay if I was ever to make it to their town.
Heading west from Colorado on The Kindness Bicycle this past October, I received an email from Rob and Sharon from San Francisco offering a place to stay if Bogart and I ever made it to their town. Two years ago Rob and Sharon read the AARP article and decided to hang it on their refrigerator, it has remained there since, offering them a side dish of kindness, every time they reached for the refrigerator door.
After several emails back and forth, Bogart and I arrived in San Francisco to the delight of Rob and Sharon. They are huge dog lovers and are some of the kindest individuals on the face of the earth. Needless to say, The Kindness Bus Tour was a perfect fit. This past summer and for these 2 weeks, Bogart became the most loved dog on the face of the earth. He had a blast, being able to pretty much have the run of the house, this suited him well, as most everything on The Kindness Bus is off limits to Bogart for the sake of safety.
For these sixteen days and nights, Rob and Sharon opened their home to me, including the extended Thanksgiving weekend with their family and friends. At visit’s end, they had adopted me and Bogart into their family. We are truly honored. Thank you Rob and Sharon.
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.