At this month's Children's Program, we explored the theme of surviving and thriving in the wintertime. We discussed and acted out various strategies that wild animals and human animals use to survive and thrive in the wintertime (including a "hibernation meditation"), and how we might be able to apply similar strategies to working with other challenging (and wonderful) circumstances in our lives. We then made peanut butter pine cone bird feeders in gratitude to the local animals inhabiting Shao Shan's woods. Inside the Zendo the children rang the big bell, and with each ring sent out loving-kindess to all beings
