Wind phone

The Ausable River Cut Conservation Area has installed a wind phone, a Japanese-invented tool that helps with grieving. Here's how it works.

The concept could not be simpler or more profound: Place a disconnected telephone in the woods, available to anyone who needs to talk to someone who cannot hear them.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Hall of Moss, Hoh Rainforest

On both sides of the Pacific Ocean, telephones have become a tool for the grieving to connect with lost loved ones – a source of solace for those left behind.

Deer Lake's "wind phone" is helping people feel connected to loved ones they've lost.

Phone of the Wind, an unconnected telephone set up by the Crossroads Hospice Society in Port Moody's Pioneer Memorial Park, acts as an intermediary, offering people a place to channel their grief by letting them speak to loved ones who have died. Read this beautiful article by CBC.

There is a phone booth known as the “Telephone of the Wind” on a hill overlooking the ocean in Otsuchi Town in northeastern Japan. It is connected to nowhere, but people come to “call” family members...

Nature has long been invoked as a place of refuge for those in mourning-- from Greek and Roman mythology to Japanese Haiku and turn-of-the-century Latin

A wind phone installed on a local conservation area trail invites visitors dealing with loss to pick up the receiver and speak to the loved ones they miss.