It's been an exciting time. Even without everyone moved into MHSS yet, we still pulled together a massive first month of events, with even bigger plans to come. The was a big shabbat dinner, a barbecue, a house-concert-turned-jam session, and some mystical & meditative moments. We polled the community for input, started what I think was the very first Moishe House group on Facebook (now up to 61 members!) for publicity, and started reaching out to the neighbors, the frummies, the hippies, the do-gooders, the gamers, the loudmouths and the wallflowers -- everyone cool we know and everyone cool they know! (and that's a lot of cool).
My favorite moments of the last month: our first meeting with Isaac. Looking around the room Friday night watching all the new different people get to know each other. The feeling of "wow this is really happening" when I got blog access.
I'm looking forward to this month: Our themed shabbat dinners (Friday the Thirteenth, and Jewish-Valentines-Day LUUUUUV), the open mic night, and the big Eicha experiment: can we turn a fast day's evening chant of ancient Lamentations into something edgy, meaningful, and empowering?
For the long haul: Get these suburbanites (including me) off their tuchusses and onto the rocks. Moishe House Silver Spring Maryland goes rock climbing along the Potomac, or a bike adventure -- something outdoorsy. Have community workshops with friend ___ who knows all about ____. Skillshare for twenty-somethings? And a big party.
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