The 3rd day of Christmas

PUT PEN TO PAPER

Letter writing is a wonderful, old-fashioned way to spread kindness, create understanding, even learn new languages, and all this can be accomplished from the comfort of your own home. Perhaps you already know of someone who would enjoy regular messages. If not, there are websites where you can be matched with a prospective correspondent from the other side of town or the other side of the world. The World Needs More Love Letters was founded by Hannah Brencher, who was desperately homesick when she moved to New York City for university. “I unravelled so quickly,” she says. Desperate for meaningful contact, she began writing letters to strangers and leaving them around town labelled, “If you find this letter, it’s for you.” “It made me feel like I was doing something within a lonely city,” she explains. As word spread, people began asking Hannah to write to them and now letter requests come into the group from lonely people all over the world. The World Needs More Love Letters operates in 73 countries and it’s still growing. You can sign up to write or receive letters at moreloveletters.com.