Welcome to Be Kinder

I can't remember the exact moment or the incident that sparked my BE KINDER mission.  

I remember being with my sister Janet.  I had been writing BE KINDER on my wrist with a permanent marker for a couple of months.  When she and I were together on a road trip to see my son Tayo and granddaugher Ava, the idea seemed to gain energy and momentum, almost on its own.

I began to look at things and people in a different way...the way of being kinder.  Then, for Christmas, my son Christopher took me, blindfolded, to a tattoo parlor where he had already paid for my BE KINDER tattoo.  I love it!

My parents have always taught us to be kind to each other, animals, nature, to be appreciative of what we have, and to respect other people regardless of our differences.

There is not a situation in the world that couldn't be made better by being kinder.  We see starving and neglected children.  We need to be kinder and feed and care for them.  We see animals being abused and destroyed in our oceans and forests.  We need to be kinder and protect them.  We see friends and strangers treating people horribly both physically and verbally.  We need to be kinder and step in to diffuse the situation and get them help.  We see manufacturers, companies and individual people destroying our natural resources and nature.  We need to all work together to find ways to be kinder to our planet.  We see homeless people on the street and walk right past them.  We need to be kinder and acknowledge that they exist.  We need to be kinder and figure out a way that every American can have a safe place to sleep at night.  We see young people completely out of control, whether because they have no parental supervision or whether they are simply lost.  We need to be kinder and mentor those children and guide them by example and education. 

Needless to say, the list goes on and on.  There are the basic everyday ways we can be kinder.  I promise you, if you really pay attention to what is happening at any given moment, you will find some way in  which  being kinder will make your space better. 

My hope is that you will join me.  My mission is to make this world a kinder place, one BE KINDER at a time.