One of my favorite people in my five years of travel throughout the United States is Dr. John Stratton, Executive Director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence. He is a peacemaker of the highest degree, working on helping to end conflict of all forms.
As I headed north through Ohio, Ashland was a must stop for the Global Kindness Tour.
***Happy Birthday today to Patti, a beautiful earthly angel.
One Million Acts Of Kindness Day is always on April 27th. Challenge yourself to do as many kind acts as possible on this day.
This 4th annual event was founded in Whitney Point, New York. This event has all the makings of growing into a nationwide event, one town at a time.
Please, if you have a way of getting a proclamation to make this happen in your town, let me know. Your town and this country will be a better place because of it.
Four years ago, a Chinese student who was in this country for a week wrote a wonderful quote on the Kindness Bus: “Kindness will make this world a wonderful place.”
Qiping Lu and Yutai Ma from China stopped by to talk with me about the meaning of One Million Acts of Kindness. I thought it was fitting for Qiping to write the same quote on the Blue Bird of Kindness.
It has been nearly 3 years since visiting this center in Athens, Ohio. A few faces have changed but the work they do is of the highest importance.
Public Relations Robin Webb and Lindsay, an Ohio University student took time to talk with me today.
In a very short while, the Kindness Bus will finally be shipped from Petaluma, California to Blacksburg, Virginia. Professor Bryan Katz will use it on the Virginia Tech campus and surrounding Blacksburg area for years to come. I was able to spend time with Bryan, his wife Katie and their family and have Easter dinner in their home.
I knob that the Kindness Bus is going to be put to good use.
Leotie, a Resident Advisor and Cody a student at Virginia Tech stopped by the “Blue Bird of Kindness” to talk about all the good they can do on campus and out in the world. For starters, Leotie is going to spread stack of flyers across campus. Thank you to both of them for the kind words.
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.