Happy Birthday John Lennon! A Gift From Yoko Ono, the "Wish Tree." (VIDEO) - Frequencies - The Bay Citizen

Happy Birthday John Lennon! A Gift From Yoko Ono, the "Wish Tree." (VIDEO) - Frequencies - The Bay Citizen

Happy Birthday John Lennon! A Gift From Yoko Ono, the "Wish Tree." (VIDEO)

By QUEENA KIM, TANYA JO MILLER |October 9, 2010 5:34 p.m. |In FREQUENCIES

With John Lennon in the news this weekend, I remembered a present Yoko Ono gave him a few years ago. It was called "Wish Tree" and it's a really simple idea: write a wish on a piece of paper and tie it to a tree.

The grand plan was to collect all the wishes and bury them under the “Imagine Peace Tower” in Iceland, where Ono celebrated Lennon’s 70^th birthday.

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I did a story about the “Wish Tree” that Ono gave to Pasadena in 2008. She placed a