CommUnity Trees

Here it is, as I promised...The project description...for anyone wanting to replicate this idea across the planet. Please!
I already have someone in California, 
and someone on the Chesapeake Bay, on the east coast USA, who will use this idea, create a tree decorating event in their neighborhoods

CommUnity Trees: Spreading Roots/Creating Community
”We have so much more in common than what separates us.”
“In Unity there is strength”
 
Why: We are a populace yearning for connection. We (community members, citizens, students) need to chart a new way forward, beyond cynicism.
What: Trees decorated in neighborhoods across town with hand-made “ornaments” that display words of pathos, ethos, and logos. Because trees work in collaboration with other trees to create a strong community, to help the most vulnerable in their community, sending out roots of nourishment. 

The act of creating the ornaments, and decorating the trees wirh positive words and phrases with people from other neighborhoods, children from local schools with different ages than their elders in our community, this act of creating, together, creates conversation, creates community.

Where do we begin?  A CommUnity Tree involves planting, but not planting trees…planting seeds of thought, of possibility.  We begin with having positive words and mutual values (Peace, Hope, Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, The Golden Rule, Understanding) reinforced visually… We are a visual species. To learn we often need to SEE positive images and words in many places, thus imprinting them in our subconscious, our hearts, our souls.

Who: Neighborhood Associations, Schools, Individuals, Students, Places of Worship, Public Gathering Spaces, Local Businesses, and more, working together or individually.

How: Using Nancy and Hal’s tree as our muse and our model, we will send to the adjacent neighborhood associations (and to local schools) an invitation to decorate a CommUnity Tree with us.  They choose a special tree in their school or neighborhood. We bring (and ask them to contribute) the materials = paints, pieces of wood, glitter, hanging thread, cord, wires, glue, glue gun, etc.

We encourage friends and family to make a Unity Tree in their CommUnity, wherever that might be. 
We encourage numerous Neighborhood association members to also have their own Unity Tree Party. Unity Trees can have an underlying theme: Children’s Trees, Healing Trees, Philosophy Trees, Peace Trees, and more!

We present our plan to the Office of Neighborhood Coordination (ONC).

We sync our plan with the Arts and Culture District plans for the Route 66 celebration.  (Thinking BIG…..Unity Trees along the length of Route 66 (state by state…trees!)
Tourists will have something to take home that doesn’t cost a thing…the memory is free.