Colin Campbell and Gail Lerner created a wind phone in Joshua Tree, California, to honor their two children, Ruby and Hart, who died in a tragic car accident in 2019. On the crash's six-year anniversary, they positioned a disconnected rotary phone to give others a space to connect with lost loved ones. The concept of wind phones, initiated by Itaru Sasaki in Japan, allows mourners to express their grief. Campbell's personal experience with a wind phone inspired them to create their own as a sanctuary for healing.
"Anyone in grief can visit, sit down in the privacy of the vast desert, pick up the rotary phone and call their loved one via the cosmic connection," Campbell explained.
"The last thing we did as a family was pick that house. It became a grief sanctuary," Campbell said.
"I started talking to Ruby and Hart and weeping. It was so powerful," he said.
Campbell and Lerner hoped the wind phone, placed near their home, would offer them and others a quiet space to connect with lost loved ones and move through grief.
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