A clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone for those dealing with death and loss ...
It started with a disconnected phone in a Japanese garden. Now there are hundreds of "wind phones" in the world, including ...
At its simplest, a wind phone is a rotary or push-button phone located ... Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of their grief ...
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of ...
And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone ... likely was a working office phone, before it was replaced by generations of touch tone phones, cordless phones, cellphones.
(THE CONVERSATION) My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of Washington went into COVID-19 lockdown. Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief ...