Celebration of Children’s Day


On December 10th we celebrated the Winter Solstice and Shambhala Children’s Day. This holiday was instituted by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. It celebrates children and childhood and provides a special opportunity to express our appreciation for and with them. We shared a potluck lunch; children passed small toys through ceremonial smoke and put them on the shrine; Lise Gaston offered a wonderful reading of the traditional Children’s Day winter solstice story, Iliana, written by Walter Fordham; and we created masks and crowns.

Deep thanks to Susan Boychuk, Lise Gaston, and the other volunteers who put together this magical afternoon.