Soshimsa Women's Group is growing not only in size...Local Scotch Plains resident, Liz McConahay Wanfried, founder of Union County Organic Gardeners, shared great tips, including starting your garden indoors. Liz reminded us to teach children about nature from planting from seeds, embrace our elders as they would love to share their tips and wisdom. Suggestions also included reaching out to neighbors to start community gardens and visiting the elderly in senior homes as a volunteer project to bring gardening to them. We all started our own lettuce mix from seeds and look forward to sharing a yummy salad with The Soshimsa Zen Center soon. A bow of appreciation to Wendy Burney for doing a great job running the SWG.
Dinair Santana recieved a charter and will be the President of the Brazil Chapter of the So Shim Sa Buddhist Fellowship. Andrea Prados will be the treasurer for this first international chapter. Dinair has been studying Buddhism under Ven. Myong Ahn Sunim for 7 years and has completed the Chapter President Course. We look forward to supporting her in this expansion and watching our Sangha grow.