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 no wires connecting it to ...
A clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone for those dealing with death and loss Taryn Lindhorst, The Conversation The first wind phone was built in 2010 in ...
I loved Jan Risher's column about an old rotary phone and old phone exchanges. Seventy years later, I still remember by best friend's phone number, Jackson 8080. And even though I've had a cell ...
Then I heard about the wind phone. 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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...