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What Are Wind Phones, and How Do They Help With Grief?
A clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone for those dealing with death and loss ...
Woods: A rotary phone that isn't connected to anything — yet helps connect to lost loved ones
It started with a disconnected phone in a Japanese garden. Now there are hundreds of "wind phones" in the world, including ...
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things ...
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Woods: A rotary phone that isn't connected to anything — yet helps connect to lost loved ones
And even if they are, they don’t require a rotary phone hooked up to nothing. But those who believe in wind phones say there is something to having this physical device as a tool. And for those ...
The Conversation3d
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
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 ...
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From Rotary Phones to MSN Messenger, Australia's Newest Museum Celebrates Communication Technologies
The first new major museum in Melbourne for more than two decades is all about the tech that's helped humanity interact.
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Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
(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 ...
Times Union3d
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Taryn Lindhorst, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) My mother died in my ...