This issue of Spreading Kindness marks the beginning of our fifth year on the Internet. Well, there are surely more of you now and we are excited to again reach out with our message of how to change the world. Since our initial efforts to reach out to the world in 1995, the world has changed and not always in a positive way. There are more wars and regional conflicts now than there were in 1995 and there has been further erosion of civility and kindness at all levels of society.
Much work remains to be done.
This issue of Spreading Kindness contains information on a new venture of the Kindness Campaign, namely the announcement of the play, Rush To Judgment. The idea for this play came to me while I was attending a symphony concert in Colorado Springs. I had my eyes closed during the performance trying to imagine what pictures Mussorgsky might have been looking at when he wrote this music, when all of a sudden I was flooded with an idea. I saw that a play about what happened at Columbine High School would dramatize the role that all the systemic elements of the larger culture of violence contributed to this tragedy. I thought this is a good way to raise people's consciousness about how this larger system of violence is taking over our schools.