simple action saturday : call someone.

March 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

We rely so much on electronic communication these days: Facebook, email, Twitter.

What's often lost is nuance.

What's often lost is tone.

What's always lost is the sound of your precious, sweet, recognizable voice.

Today, just call someone. Just one person. And not while you're on your way somewhere or while you're washing the dishes or doing laundry.

Call and have that call be the only thing you are doing at that time. Sit in a chair and dial. Sit there to talk. Simply talk.

Reconnect voice to voice. Be old-fashioned in the best way possible: Speak. Listen. Hear.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

4 comments to " simple action saturday : call someone. "


Sandy

March 20, 2010 AT 1:04PM

LOVE your blog, Patti! My sister and I used to talk on the phone at least once a week…this was before the days of computers, etc…now, when we talk on the phone (much more rarely now, unfortunately) it feels like a special treat! And I have discussed email vs. phone (not texting!) with others…and we all agree that so much is lost communicating electronically, just like you said….for some things, you must hear the WAY the person says it to understand the true meaning of what they are saying…Thanks, Patti! :D

Barbara Israel

March 21, 2010 AT 6:59AM

I call my Aunt Mary in Greece every Saturday. it is an important way to connect with her and we look forward to those calls. My Mom has been dead for over 25 years now and my aunt is my mom’s only sibling so she is like a Mom to me. Aunt Mary just turned 88 in the beginning of March! She can speak 3 languages but is getting upset with herself because she “can’t remember words.” I tell her she’s doing great at 88 years of age if she can remember the word in any one of the 3 languages she knows. She’s still not convinced!

Deb

March 23, 2010 AT 10:15PM

Phone calls, snail mail, face to face conversations…long may they all live !

jylene

March 27, 2010 AT 3:31PM

funny, the day of this post i was out of town and received an email from my mom asking me a question. instead of replying, i decided to call her. she works at a library and i kept getting a recording telling me to call during their hours of operation, which i was doing. i finally reached her at home during her lunch break– they had forgotten to turn the phones on and wondered why it was so quiet!