Children’s Day Celebration a Smashing Success!
On the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012, the Shambhala Meditation Center of Denver hosted its first Shambhala Children’s Day Celebration in several years. We are grateful to Christopher Bacon, who moved to Denver from Ft. Collins earlier this year, for his vision and energy for this event. Though he’d been told that SMCD didn’t have many children, he plunged ahead on the principle of “If you Build It, They Will Come.”
Volunteers came together to decorate the shrine room with greenery and lights. Our Culture and Decorum leader, April Stevens, acted as master of ceremonies. More than a dozen children attended with their parents and friends. We listened to a short recorded greeting from the Sakyong Wangmo, and her daughter, Jetsun Drukmo. There was an interactive reading— with characters— of “Iliana,” a play written by Walter Fordham, as well as was craft-making, enthusiastic singing, and a delicious pot-luck.
We hope this will become an annual event and the first of many more activites that bring our children and families together at the center.
The youngest members of the Shambhala Meditation Center of Denver, with their parents and grandparents, gathered for the Children’s Day Celebration on the winter solstice, December 21,
