Sunday, January 28, 2024

The Ghosts in the Garden

 

They're tucked away in hundreds of meadows, gardens, cemeteries.

Wind phones.

A private space. Phone booths connected to nothing, always with old-fashioned rotary dials. 

Inside, you can dial an all-too-familiar number-- known only to you--and talk to the cosmos. The missing, the living, the dead.

It's a one-sided conversation.

A wind phone offers closure, connection and comfort, according to grief experts, who offer extensive information HERE.

In a cynical 2024, it may seem more like a left-over Letterman show sketch, or the premise for Netflix's newest grabber, Dating the Dead.

Surely one wind phone is recording these grief calls for a Japanese game show?


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