***This is the 2nd of 3 weekly updates. I just finished week #2 of spending every day of the week contacting schools across the country about adopting a goal of kindness for the school year.
There are a couple of six-packs most guys typically wish to have, one has to do with abs of steel and the other quenches one’s thirst.
The six-pack I have recently come to prefer is one that has an impact on other’s lives.Tomorrow I will mail six more Kindness Pledge certificates to schools across the country. This brings to a total of thirteen schools that have “signed up” to take part in performing one million acts of kindness during their respective, upcoming school year.
Today’s photo is of six frames ready to contain a Kindness Pledge for the next six schools that wish to participate in this initiative…there will be many more. It is my personal favorite type of six-pack!
It’s not too late to “sign up” your school.
Please email me for a letter of introduction and a PDF of a flyer for your school.
Best of all it’s free…better yet…it will change kids’ lives.
Thank you,
Bob Votruba
thekindnessbustour@gmail.com
There have been some pretty incredible days in the last 4+ years of The Kindness Bus Tour, today might quite possibly have been the pinnacle of achievement thus far.
Today, my son and I rode twenty miles in memory of a friend of his who took his life at the age of fifteen. We started at a school they both attended and rode out into the countryside and to his former hometown and back to our starting point. On the way back, my brakes started grabbing and my bike is now down to one mid-range gear, making pedaling a chore on the flat, let alone the hills I had to climb. It was on mile fifteen where the longest grade and the biggest challenge presented itself. I had to get off and walk The Kindness Bicycle up and over the hill.
Hudson, Ohio, what a nice town to pay a visit to, with The Kindness Bicycle. I have been here earlier this summer when I paid a short visit to northeast Ohio. This friendly town ranks right up there with the best.
In the year before leaving my former hometown to begin this incredible adventure, I lived in a house in a bucolic area in northeast Ohio. The beautiful countryside has a moderately traveled road in front of my former residence with joggers and cyclists as well. In the yard was a wonderful granite boulder that I thought would look great out by the road at the entrance to my driveway. Of course, a plaque with some peaceful words would be a nice addition to this serene setting.
It is a wonderful feeling when you know your grown children believe in you. Sometimes you hear it from them with the spoken word. Oftentimes it is shown in a more subtle way and you have to read between the lines so to speak. Other times it hits you right over the head.
