Welcome to the Wind Phone
In 2010, garden designer Itaru Sasaski of Otsuchi, Japan put an old telephone booth on his property with a disconnected phone as a way of coping with the death of his cousin by calling him, "on the wind."
Shortly after he'd installed what he called the Wind Phone (Kaze no Denwa), Sasaski's community faced a massive earthquake, and in 2011 he opened the phone booth to the public so those grieving friends and family members lost in the disaster could "call" their loved ones.
People all over the world were moved to follow suit, and there are now several hundred wind phones around the world, including around 400 in the US.
Feel free to make a wind call to a loved one.
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You can find a Wind Phone in Santa Cruz, California, where I live, by taking a walk along Branciforte Creek. The Wind Phone, pictured above, is a comfort, and it's a very nice walk along the creek! The Wind Phone along Branciforte Creek comes with the advisory that I have copied out, above.
Feel free to make a wind call to a loved one (wherever you may be).
Image Credits:
Gary Patton, personal photos
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