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 in a secluded spot in nature, usually within a booth-type structure and often next to a chair or bench. The phone line is ...
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 ...
Not for Sale ... He bought an old phone booth — white with glass panes — put it in his garden on a windy hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and “installed” a rotary phone, with ...
(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 ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of ...