I read recently met with Father Ed Estok of the Saint Albert the Great parish in North Royalton, Ohio. Father is going to start a kindness initiative throughout the entire city of North Royalton and he asked me to help him make this happen. What a wonderful honor!
He also has a very playful Boston terrier named Buddy. Bogart and Buddy had the time of their lives playing while father Ed and I talked about some of the specifics of this wonderful, new initiative.
On this D-Day anniversary, God bless the brave souls who protected our freedoms and liberated the lives of so many throughout the world.
To all my World War II Veteran friends, thank you for your service to our country.
I love watching people approach and spend time reading the messages on the Kindness Bus and Kindness Bicycle. This caring mother was teaching her child about some of the lessons on why it is so important not to bully someone else. What a lucky boy he is to have someone in his life to guide him.
One of my favorite events is the “Meet the Trucks” event in Lakewood, Ohio. This event is always well attended by families from western suburbs of Cleveland. This captive audience always shows big interest in the Kindness Bus and Kindness Bicycle. Thank you to all for the many great conversations and questions.
Visiting this nearly empty campus was well worth the few hours spent. Most all students are gone for the summer but many remain here for summer work and courses. This campus in a small city of Berea, Ohio I met some very friendly students and residents in nearby neighborhoods. I had a great time talking with very interested individuals.
“Are you awake?” were the words that appeared as a text from Mike Rubin, Service Learning teacher from Aurora High School in Ohio. Mike had just passed by Kindness Bus in his car and wondered if I wanted a coffee.
The Service Learning class was one of my favorite talks I did almost 2 years ago. A class of 18 students has now grown to 80 students. The students learn to discover the passion inside for helping others in their community and surrounding area. Mike invited me back to talk to his class once again when I return to Northeast Ohio in September. I am looking forward to being inspired and helping to inspire.
Oh yes, thanks for the coffee and muffins Mike!
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.