Our speaker today, Mary Leopold, helped place a wind phone on hole 11 of Canal Shores Golf Course in Evanston.
The wind phone is to help people connect with people they have lost.
The Phone of the Wind originated in Japan by its creator Itaru Sasaki, while grieving his cousin who died of Cancer. He purchased an old-fashioned phone booth and set it up in his garden. He installed an obsolete rotary phone not connected to wires or any "earthly system." Here, Itaru felt a continued connection to his cousin and found comfort and healing amid his grief. Itaru gave his phone booth a name, Kaze No Denwa (風の電話), translated as The Telephone of the Wind.