A wonderful movement I learned of today is, Living is So Big. It is all about spreading awareness of just how great life is to experience and how the little things can have a huge impact on life.
Living is So Big, founders, Jesus and Iliana are on a cross country promotion, teaching the importance of being grateful for all the good in our lives. I met them and their son, Christopher, who lives in Lawrence, after they had taken dozens of photos of The Kindness Bus. They have a passion for what they are doing and are so inspiring. I found myself counting my blessings for the very rich life I have; an 84 sq. ft. bus of everything I own and a life filled with everything I need.
Bill and Beverly stopped by The Kindness Bus as I was getting some mail ready to be sent. They had seen us on the news and in the newspaper and stopped by to give us their blessing. The site, www.livingissobig.com is definitely worth a visit to add your comments of what you are grateful for in your life.
Thank you to Annie for putting together a last minute neighborhood party for One Million Acts Of Kindness, it was a great way to have an entire neighborhood get to see The Kindness Bus up close.
We are getting some great sleeping weather and cool mornings for riding, 40 miles today. We push west to Topeka tomorrow morning.
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.