Long before air conditioners, cars, television, social media and all the paraphernalia of modern life, people commonly strolled their neighborhoods on warm summer evenings. They stopped to chat with neighbors gathered on their front porches, escaping houses still hot from the day.
Today, people often drive in and out through their garage doors, rarely seeing their neighbors. Come evening, they stream a movie in the comfort of their homes and hunker down for another night alone.
The result isn’t surprising: loneliness and isolation, even among neighbors…