More Random Acts of Kindness Author:Conari Press (Editors) The eagerly awaited sequel to the bestselling Random Acts of Kindness. How it began... It all started in a Sausalito, California, restaurant in 1982 when Anne Herbert scrawled the words "practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" on a place mat. From there it spread to bumbe... more »r stickers, quietly at first, but with the powerful momentum of something important -- calling us to lives of caring and compassion.
Random Acts of Kindness, true stories of acts of kindness, was published in February 1993 and set off a chain reaction. Articles appeared in nearly every newspaper in the U.S., and hundreds of radio stations devoted airtime to the cause. Toward the end of 1993, a Bakersfield, California, professor gave a class assignment to do a random act of kindness -- unleashing yet another flood of stories. The concept continues to spread, and we hope it will carry on until the beauty of simple kindness touches -- and changes -- us all. « less