Not before free public restrooms, but still. Maybe service organizations or churches can help out with space, etc. Anyway, enjoy simply reading about a nice thing.

This ‘wind phone’ in Phoenix offers a space to talk through grief after someone dies

KJZZ | By Sam Dingman

Published April 9, 2026 at 12:43 PM MST

The “wind phone” set up at New Vision Center for Spiritual Living in Phoenix.

Back in 2020, a woman named Amy Dawson lost her 25-year-old daughter, Emily.

In the midst of her grief, she discovered a monument in Japan, built by a man named Itaru Sasaki: a small white phone booth on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, in the town of Otsuchi. Sasaki, who’d suffered a loss of his own several years earlier. He called it a “wind phone,” and the idea was simple: step into the booth, pick up the receiver and speak to those you can no longer reach on a regular phone.

Dawson fell in love with the idea as a way of communicating with Emily, and set up a wind phone of her own. And Dawson set up a website encouraging others to set up or find their own wind phones.

Here in Phoenix, the idea connected with a member of the congregation at the New Vision Center for Spiritual Living, who told Rev. Karin Einhaus about it.

Einhaus was moved by the story, and resolved to set up a wind phone that’s open to the public on the center’s campus.

And not long after, she got a call from another member of the congregation. (snip-go read it! It’s not at all long.)