The Wishing Tree

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I ran across this gem today, a little tree where people have been posting little hand-written notes. It's so completely charming and so completely not-Vancouver. It's a ceanothus that has been pruned into a little tree with many branches (and incidentally, about 20 metres from Errol Flynn's death penthouse).

I don't know how long it's been going, but I'm going to check back frequently. All the tags were soaking wet from the downpour.























And JD, I wish you didn't have to wish on the tree, as well.

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I've read about wishing trees before, but I don't remember in what city/country.

Most people now use Twitter for this kind of stuff.

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Well, if you ever run into another wishing tree, K., please post. It would be charming to see wishes in other languages.

I guess the Western Wall in Jerusalem is the proto wish-spot.

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I saw several 'wish' books, although they are not called that, in various cathedrals and churches over the last week. I looked through a couple of them and even though frivolity is discouraged in a religious context, many of the wishes boil down to the same things -- health, prosperity, love -- albeit worded in ways that will not annoy any existing higher beings if possible.