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Jun 2, 2008

"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines." --Charles Kuralt

A Turtle Who Taught Kindness

"Enlightenment and epiphanies can show up in some pretty strange ways. The Buddha found it under a Boddhi tree, Nelson Mandela in prison and Ram Dass through psychedelics. Little did I know, mine would arrive in the form of a hard-shelled reptile simply trying to cross the road -- a turtle. But this wasn’t just any turtle, this was the world’s most optimistic one. He was tenaciously determined to cross twenty feet of tar as cars zoomed by at 55 mph." And so starts the story how Michael Chase became a kindness advocate in his local community.