What can a simple act of kindness accomplish? A great deal according to author of A Splash of Kindness and songwriter John Allen. Allen joined Lon on May 20, 2015 to describe his book and the stories in it describing how a simple act of kindness had made a major change in people's lives, including the act that made all the difference to Jesse Owens the track star and Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Listen to Allen and Lon talk about how just simple acts of kindness creates what we call a civilized society.
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