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By The Queen of Free
The public is invited!
The sign says the project, "Yoko Ono's "Wish Tree" , has been underway since 1996.
Yoko Ono has planted trees around the globe to collect wishes, and her tree at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is her gift, literature at the museum says.
I first spotted it about two years ago in the well of the sculpture garden.
Supplies stand at the ready, waiting for your dreams on paper: plentiful pencils and sturdier paper (than two years ago), a better writing "desk, " stronger twine to tie around the branches of a young dogwood.
How do wishmakers get their wishes strung up so high on the tippy-tops of the tree?
It seems like the wishes now are more altruistic than heretofore when economic conditions were not so glum. Then, some of them read:
I wish for more money!
A new refrigerator
A new car
That Jim Bob would love me
One of the most memorable: "That I could learn to love again."
Heinous things to happen to President Bush and Vice-President Cheney.
Based on handwriting, children and foreign visitors to the District seem to make up the majority of wishmakers.
Recent trips to the tree reveal a more embracing, caring and sensitive populace. (The Obama effect? The economy?)
I wish for a cure of M.S.
I wish the U.S. would get out of Iraq and Afghanistan
Peace in the world!
Everyone should know love
I wish I had knowledge of everything
Joy!
Every so often someone comes and "downloads" the tree and carries off the wishes to, to? Where do they go? Loose twine hangs from the branches, and the wishes are gone.
They go to Yoko's "Imagine Peace" project in Iceland which now has more than a million wishes.
What happens to the wishes on the tree when it rains hard? Do their words disappear with the raindrops?
Make a wish.
How can it come true if you don't?
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