anticlimactic
Nov. 23rd, 2003 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gilanaSo thanks to all the encouraging comments on my synagogue experience, I went back this Friday armed with tissues and prepared to try to get through the extreme emotionalism and try to read what I could without getting too upset.
We got to the first pray-on-your-own part, and I started reading the Hebrew as best I could--loud enough so that I could hear myself and not worrying about how I sounded to anyone else. And instead of getting tense and nervous and bursting into tears, I was just fine. I read what I could in the time before the next prayer, and it was pretty slow (but better than when I'm all tense about it) but the usual emotion that plagues me was just...gone. It was very odd. I've never been able to let go of anything that quickly before. It was pretty amazing. So thanks to everyone for the support -- it really did make a difference.
In other news, just got back from seeing the Flying Karamazov Bros with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hawkegirl and her two eldest (and the very youngest, I suppose). Lots of fun, and always a joy to spend time with them.
I have a blank wall in my room and a ton of pictures to put up, but I can't decide how to arrange them. Anyone want to lend a hand?
We got to the first pray-on-your-own part, and I started reading the Hebrew as best I could--loud enough so that I could hear myself and not worrying about how I sounded to anyone else. And instead of getting tense and nervous and bursting into tears, I was just fine. I read what I could in the time before the next prayer, and it was pretty slow (but better than when I'm all tense about it) but the usual emotion that plagues me was just...gone. It was very odd. I've never been able to let go of anything that quickly before. It was pretty amazing. So thanks to everyone for the support -- it really did make a difference.
In other news, just got back from seeing the Flying Karamazov Bros with
hawkegirl and her two eldest (and the very youngest, I suppose). Lots of fun, and always a joy to spend time with them.I have a blank wall in my room and a ton of pictures to put up, but I can't decide how to arrange them. Anyone want to lend a hand?
