Deeply touched by Memorial Day earlier this week, and the lives lost in all wars, I am giving serious consideration to honoring all veterans living and deceased. I am planning a month-long bicycle ride to honor veterans when I am in Florida this coming winter. Details to come.
With a need for some time off, I got together with a few friends to catch up on their lives and my life, over a game of Indians baseball. Of course everyone wanted to know about my travels
One of my favorites stops along my travels is being in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, for their annual Blossom Time parade. Each year over 65,000 parade attendees are a captive audience for the Kindness Bicycle. The high-fives from children and the thousands of ovations from the adults let me know that I am on the right track for riding against the bullying of children.
Every year I am invited to the end of the school year party at Mayfield High School Tech. All of the hard work of the students is showcased for parents, school administrators and friends to see. It is a wonderful way to support these proud students.
This year I got to spend time talking with Joe Hayes, Guidance Counselor Excel TECC, Dominic Favazzo, Guidance Department Chair of Orange Schools and Rick Nowak, Solon High School Guidance Counselor. These three men impact the the lives of thousands of students each year. Kindness is certainly high on their list.
Thank you to Rick Zivney and Dave Hrudka for the invite to this year’s event.
This past weekend, I was the guest speaker for the final meeting of the Youth412 group from northeast Ohio. These middle school and high school students get together to celebrate all the goodness they can spread around the world throughout the their lives. Thank you for the invite. It was such a special evening.
I love this festival for the diverse culture that is representative of northeast Ohio. Old, young, black white, catholic, atheist and Jew were all here today. Kindness is a message for everyone. There were even some who seemed to need it more, to heal the hurt in in their hearts.
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.