The planning for the Ring Our Country with Kindness ride is in high gear. I have gone out for a couple of test rides on The Kindness Bicycle and have found that there is a big interest in the issues of Bullying and Adolescent Suicide. I hurried the logistics of this ride to correspond with a weekend art festival in Brooklyn, NY. If the weather is good, there will be upwards to 100,000 visitors. I found a prime parking spot for the opening festivities this evening, and interacted with as many people who passed by. One young woman was very grateful as her sister has recently been hospitalized from bullying. She loved the messages and agreed that they can have a powerful impact on kids in need.
I truly believe that many individuals will have a more positive outlook on life after hearing the message of this ride. It will be the most important and rewarding work which has taken place since The Kindness Bus Tour’s inception.
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.
WOW – There used to be an old commercial on TV, “See the USA in your Chevrolet” was the slogan. I can’t imagine how much gas the bus will use. I hope you get a lot of donations for this good work you are doing. I am sending something in. Thanks Bob!!!