When You Wish Upon a Tree
dd April 21st, 2007
We’ve just suffered through a terrible week here in the U.S. and especially here in VA. A crazy act of random unexplained killings has left us all needing some relief and a cause for renewed hope. Just a few days before this awful tragedy at VA. Tech, Yoko Ono stopped through D.C to plant some wish trees and invite people
to write wishes on small pieces of paper and tie them to the branches of potted cherry trees. Ono has installed the trees in cities across the globe and says they were inspired by temple wish trees that she saw during her youth in Japan. (Wash Post, 4/3/07).
This is part of Ono’s “Imagine Peace” project - which makes you think of the irony of her husband and partner John Lennon also being killed by a troubled young man many years ago.
Anyway, Yoko has gone around the world planting her wish trees and is going to collect the messages that people write and assemble them into an “Imagine Peace Tower” later this year in Iceland. What a fabulous idea, don’t you think. The messages run the gamut from “Let’s cover the planet with our love and make it a peaceful world for all of us and our offsprings.” to “peace in Africa”, “an end to gang violence” “to get a promotion this year” to “please bring my daddy home”.
What would you wish for? Since this is a virtual wish tree, you can plant as many wishes as you want. Feel free to explain your wish if you want. Let’s fill up our tree.
I’d make a fair number I suppose.
“Bless everyone with happiness and to be the best that they can be.”
“May we all treat others and the earth with a spiritually kind attitude.”
“May we Raise each other up.”
I guess this isn’t the kind of wish they’d like here, but I do pray for better health
for those who struggle with health problems, (myself included) and that they are
comforted in times of pain and sorrow.
Ruth - those are truly wonderful wishes. I hope they all bear fruit on the tree! What a wonderful world this could be.
I wish for my (our) son to get a job, even better a job he likes. It would be nice if he also passed the CA bar along the way.
Looking - another good wish.
I wish everyone would be a little kinder than necessary.
oh, this is such a lovely image - a temple wish tree … for peace… I will need time to think on this one…. and then return with my wish….
MY WISH WOULD BE SELFISH…I’D JUST WANT TO TRY IT ALL OVER AGAIN, FROM THE START, AND NOT FOUL UP SO MUCH.
OR JUST A CHANCE TO TALK TO POP AGAIN ONCE OR TWICE…I’D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT ALL THIS THATS GOIN’ ON.
Steve - not selfish at all. I think all of us at one time or another wish we could go back to being 18 again, but this time with all the knowledge and wisdom we’ve acquired since then. Wouldn’t that be great!