Pat Lyden, Executive Director of the Suicide Prevention Alliance, (SPEA) says the common thread for most, if not all suicides is depression. Her organization is the “gold standard” in educating kids about what to do when depression strikes or thoughts of suicide take hold. Everyone should visit the SPEA website to know how to help someone in need.
Equally important is to know the phone number to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. 800-273-8255
If you are hurting, know that that you are loved. Hang on to life with all your might, a much better life will come to you. Be a hero to yourself !! Also know that you are SO important to someone.That someone is quite possibly someone you have yet to meet. Know that life always gets better…it does. An assumed insurmountable current issue you may be having a problem with can be overcome with time. It always does. Please hold on and get beyond the bottom of the wave…the top of the wave is coming for you, to ride the rest of your life.
Today’s ride in Carlsbad and Oceanside was perfect in so many ways. This California coast is such a beautiful place, second only to its residents.
The surf shop in today’s photo, on the California coast in Carlsbad, is owned by a woman named Sandra D…honest!
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.