Biodegradable Cell Phone Flowering

I am slowly discovering phone calls communicate much better than emails. In a phone call your words are not frozen, like the hard ground in winter or in an email. You can respond and clarify.

Many of my friends do not use email. Yesterday on a phone call to a friend reminding her about a Faith in Recovery meeting Sunday I learned that her daughter whom I had helped apply for low income housing assistance got it. Today on a phone call from the same friend I was asked to drive her and her adult daughter tomorrow to sign the papers and seal the deal. This was good news.

Tonight a friend from Florida called. We communicate by email but the phone makes communications much clearer and personal. Near the end of the conversation I noticed an incoming call from an “unknown number.” Before I could get off the phone with my friend I had missed the called. It turns out to have been my friend Prasad from India. Although he has email he, like most Indians, prefers phone calling. Cell phone use in India, like in the Middle East, is the main means of communications with rich and poor. I regret missing his call again since I have some questions and comments to share with him.

A call today from another friend Ella who I helped to drive on errands resulted in me picking up 36 homemade corn muffins as I drove back home from working on the DMZ community garden.

Yes emails, text messaging and twitter (the last two I do not do) are very popular these days. However, we simple persons prefer the phone. I carry my cell phone with me 24/7 and anyone who really wants to communicate with me knows to call.

So if you hear a voice today you know that someone really cares about you and you need to listen.

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