Sara Miura Zolbrod, coordinator of the 1,000 Hopes project, holds some hopes, dreams and wishes created by local elementary students. She will add about 1,000 of these papers to the fence at the Eugene Public Library by the end of May. Credit Aubrey Bulkeley
“I remember tying a long white piece of paper onto a tree that had thousands of other pieces of paper on it.” As a child, Zolbrod thought this was a wishing tree. After some research, she learned it is a tradition called Omikuji where people can pay for a range of fortunes. And all the fortunes tied together, get amplified.