TED – Ideas Worth Spreading – Love Letters to Strangers – Hannah Brencher’s mother always wrote her letters. So when she felt herself bottom into depression after college, she did what felt natural — she wrote love letters and left them for strangers to find. The act has become a global initiative.
Huh…is this an underground movement? In October Sherry Turkle’s ‘Alone Together’ lamented the solitude of frenetic constant digital connection. And then TED featured a young woman who found her weapon against depression in hand-written letters, scratched out like a pre-historic tweet. Only different. Harnessed and fed, this pen to paper salve has become a powerful global initiative: The World Needs More Love Letters.