text: Hopes blossom on Wishing Tree in NE Portland | kgw.com
  There are a few hundred wishes hanging from a Horse Chestnut street tree at the corner of Northeast Morris Street and 7th Avenue.
  Published: 2/27/2014 12:43:17 PM
  Updated: 12:43 PM PST February 27, 2014
  PORTLAND Some people wished for love, some for world peace, a lot of people wished for a pony.
  Helprin, a mother of two who works at Hewlett-Packard in Vancouver, said she got the idea from a San Francisco-based blog Superhero Journal back in November. Helprin put a few tags on the tree before she left town for the weekend and when she returned it was festooned with local hopes and dreams.
  Photos: Portland's Wishing Tree
  Some of Helprin s favorites: I wish hobos could git some food, I wish there were more trees like this, I wish my mother wasn t so tight with the Xbox.
  I have a seven year old, said Helprin. I can relate to that.
  On a Wednesday morning as she removed an elaborate, if off-topic, origami mobile from the tree, Helprin remarked that it doesn t take much maintenance.
  I think I ll put this in the kids room and hang a thank you note, she said.
  It's more about putting it up there than preserving it, Helprin said.
  There s a kind of a diaspora of wishes blowing around the neighborhood, he said with a smile.
  No one s ever told Helprin that their wish has come true, either. But for her, the tree is less about fulfilling or preserving wishes and more about giving the community (perhaps mostly children) an enchanting moment to share.