Sending a practical gift -- like a supply of frozen homemade meals -- can really help ease the caregiving burden.
"It would send a message of practical reconciliation," he explained recently.
If a physical gift isn't practical, send a handwritten letter or even an e-card.
Some courier companies only do business with shippers like the United Parcel Service and Federal Express, who use the service when it's not practical to send a whole plane; others do business with ordinary companies that need items ferried from here to there as fast as possible -- which means as checked luggage, because items shipped as cargo can sit around for days waiting to go through customs.
It's a bulky add-on that turns your phone into a cumbersome device — you can't put it in your pocket, and it's a lot less practical to send a text once you've plugged the Prynt to your phone.
When premenopausal women joined the study, they were asked that if possible they should present for venipuncture at a standard point in their menstrual cycle, 7 days before they expected their next period, but if this was not possible, nevertheless to send a blood sample taken when practical.
"The value of lifting the state of emergency is political and practical; it will send a message in that Egypt is on its way to becoming a normal country after three decades of rule by exceptional police powers," said Hossam Bahgat, executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.
Finally, we sent a copy of the practical results and a list of demands for political and ecological action in all the countries involved to the competent parliaments and ministers.
Hours later, she said, the hospice sent an inexperienced licensed practical nurse who looked "really scared" and called a registered nurse for backup.
More fundamentally, the often-quoted idea that that technology lets companies market their products with a different message for each consumer turns out to be hardly more practical than sending a sales representative to every person's home.
