Yoko’s “Wish Trees” have stories to tell

As part of Yoko Ono’s "Imagine Peace" project, she took part in a brief "Wish Tree" ceremony at the Jefferson Memorial,  one of several D.C. sites for her 10-day performance art installations.  The 74-year-old (!!) Ono invited people to write wishes on pieces of paper and tie them to the branches of potted cherry trees.  They evoke the wish trees she knew and loved in her native Japan, and she’s intalled them in cities around the world. 

The exhibition is now over but Ono has collected all the wishes (adding them to the 100,000 she already has) and will place them in her Imagine Peace Tower to be installed in Iceland.

Here’s a sampling of the wishes, courtesy of the Washington Post:

I wish I was retired.

I wish my Dad would stop smoking.

I wish for a family that loves me.

I wish I could be a Fashion Designer.

I wish my daddy would come home and be a changed man.

I wish I had a half million dollars.

I wish for my Cushings disease to be gone forever.

More guns in my house.

I wish Yoko would clean up this tree.