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Whidbey Island wind phone lets you have conversations with loved ones who passed
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Off a gravel trail inside Whidbey Island's Trustland Trails Park sits a phone booth where words ride on the wind. Consider it a sort of "airway to heaven."
“Hi, grandma. I just wanted to give you an update on life,” Liz Owen-Williams said into the phone. “I feel so blessed there is a wind phone on this island, so I continue to speak to you.”
Owen-Williams was using what's called a wind phone to speak to her grandmother. Rooted in Japanese culture, it's a place where anyone can come, lift the receiver and have a personal conversation with someone who has passed on.
READ MORE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/whidbey-island-wind-phone/281-4bdb0776-4566-44ff-856c-14394011a857