
There is nothing quite as satisfyingly new as a use found for something once dismissed as old and trashworthy. Take the old-fashioned phone call, for example. (Phones are still around, of course. Much value is being extracted from them by a blur of thumb-typed text messaging, or as window into the endless mind-adventure of the internet.)
So with the absence of an actual phone call, what’s been lost but available to be found again? Intimacy, empathy, sympathy, for a few possibilities, none of which are really carried effectively by typed emojis🥺.
Which is why, if you are interested in providing valuable support to people who are experiencing homelessness, the following article may catch your interest. Read more in reasons to be cheerful: The Program That is Changing Lives by Phone