Great friend, Rodger Hensley requested a spot to write on the Blue Bird of Kindness. Being bullied most of his life for being gay, he has suffered more than most people for just being the way he is. Who are any of us to feel we have a right to judge?
Rodger’s words, “God’s love knows no limitations, gays are his children also!!”
Two weeks from today is the 6th annual One Million Acts of Kindness Week.
What beautiful act of charity will you perform that week?
The world could sure use it about right now!
What a great day for a ride in Vero Beach, Florida!
I joined in with a group who was spreading positive messages to those who passed by. It was nice to have some kind company.
Six years have passed and this one lone One Million Acts of Kindness sticker remains where someone placed it in Vero Beach. This busy parking lot has hundreds of cars exiting every day. Tens of thousands have seen this simple message over the years. I know it has made an impact!
Yesterday there was a wonderful parade to celebrate the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth. I rode the Kindness Bicycle in Gifford. What a great, last minute decision. Thousands of cheering attendees loved the message.
Earlier in the day, I talked with good friends from Vero Beach, Rodger and Denny. We worked on finding an appropriate acronym for school children about MLK. Here is our acronym.
M is the Roman numeral for 1,000
L is Lessons
K is Kindness
So, this wonderful man can now also be honored by schoolchildren by learning 1,000 lessons of kindness throughout their lives.
One Million Acts of Kindness Week begins in 22 days. From February 8-15th, do some kind action which needs attention. Big or small, any act of kindness will do. Try to get a group together and see what you can accomplish.
Pelican Marsh Elementary School and Sea Gate Elementary School invited me to have programs for their students on Collier County Kindness Awareness Day. It was such an honor to talk with over 1,700 students about all the goodness they can spread in their lives. Parents and teachers alike were very interested in this annual event. A very big shout out to Stacey Dooney and Melissa Kahn for arranging visits at these schools.
Thanks to Susanna Tocco for arranging a visit to the Naples Children’s Museum
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
You can also donate through PayPal:
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.