Because you do things
May. 2nd, 2009 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
technocracygirlI did not go to the SJ Tucker concert last night, despite having had it on the calendar for the last month. I got home last night, and [info]wanderingfey mentioned a call from my mom. As it turns out my mom's best friend since forever is being bat mitzvahed today. And that? Pretty much trumps a concert. (Though I did keep repeating to myself that it's not like [info]s00j is never going to come back to Seattle.)
I haven't felt as much of a pull towards Jewish practice here as I did in the Bay Area. Part of me wonders how much of it was lifestyle, how much of it was lonliness, and how much of it was that it was really easy to get to services. I also don't think that I want to make B'Nai Torah my central synagogue. I really feel no kavanah there, except that which I bring in. My soul is not fed. And part of me wonders how much of it has to do with the dead acoustics which mean that I cannot hear the congregation sing.
We are going to look at more houses today. I am coming to terms with the idea of a two-car household. I am repeating to myself that when I am old, I am buying a condo in the city. Gosh darn it. (Maybe with the equity from having a house that can hold a family, I can support the cost of a 900 - 1100 sq ft condo in the city. Because I can't do it now.) But still, (repeat it with me) "It's cheaper than the Bay Area."
Anyone interesting in seeing the rebroadcast of the This American Life live performance with me? It's on Thursday, May 7, at largish movie theaters.
I haven't felt as much of a pull towards Jewish practice here as I did in the Bay Area. Part of me wonders how much of it was lifestyle, how much of it was lonliness, and how much of it was that it was really easy to get to services. I also don't think that I want to make B'Nai Torah my central synagogue. I really feel no kavanah there, except that which I bring in. My soul is not fed. And part of me wonders how much of it has to do with the dead acoustics which mean that I cannot hear the congregation sing.
We are going to look at more houses today. I am coming to terms with the idea of a two-car household. I am repeating to myself that when I am old, I am buying a condo in the city. Gosh darn it. (Maybe with the equity from having a house that can hold a family, I can support the cost of a 900 - 1100 sq ft condo in the city. Because I can't do it now.) But still, (repeat it with me) "It's cheaper than the Bay Area."
Anyone interesting in seeing the rebroadcast of the This American Life live performance with me? It's on Thursday, May 7, at largish movie theaters.
