It started with a disconnected phone in a Japanese garden. Now there are hundreds of "wind phones" in the world, including one in a Jacksonville cemetery.

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 ...

My husband bought an old rotary telephone with the intent to put it in an old phone nook in our daughter's condo. When we got home from our trip, he plopped the phone down on an end table ...

Then I heard about the wind phone. At its simplest, a wind phone is a rotary or push-button phone ... under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com ...

And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone ... Not for Sale.” But that was from decades ago, when it likely was a working office phone, before it was replaced by ...

Her body was taken away, but none of the usual touchstones for grief were available to our family. There was no funeral or supportive gathering, no deliveries of food and no hugs. For months afterward ...

(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 ...