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I have discovered collar pins and wore these fancy

I have discovered collar pins and wore these fancy bees and necktie to #selichot service this evening AND I got to hold a Torah while it was given its special high holidays garb. It’s been a great start to the week. Shavua tov!

♥️ #elul #elul5782 #elul2022 #thisisrealandyou

♥️ #elul #elul5782 #elul2022 #thisisrealandyouarecompletelyunprepared #jewish #highholidays #highholydays

Shavua tov! This is Friday’s evidence of my cont

Shavua tov! This is Friday’s evidence of my continued mission to #eyebomb the world with “wake up”/#shofar energy.

#elul #elul5782 #elul2022 #eyebombohio #googlyeyes #jewish #naturelookingbackatyou

Wednesday night #parsha study with @torahstudio. P

Wednesday night #parsha study with @torahstudio. Parshat Ki Tavo (this part of it) will be on my mind for a while and has really useful #Elul vibes. Awesome chevruta partner in @alex.lorch this evening, grateful for good wrestling on a special day.

#parshastudy #torahstudy #torah #artnotes #doodlenotes #jewishnotes #chevruta #jewishart

Elul continues. #elul #eyebomb

Elul continues. #elul #eyebomb

My chevruta time revealed a deep rabbit hole aroun

My chevruta time revealed a deep rabbit hole around ashrei (and other meanings for that word and what happiness IS as maybe a place of present stillness within a moment of noticing and feeling divine witnessing) that I promptly fell down and haven’t returned from, and all I could create from it was something blooming and bursting with color around my shining line from Tehillim class with @a.r.k.ofthecovenant. A great class from @torahstudio.

#ashrei #tehillim #psalms #psalm40 #digitalart #jewishart #jewishnotes #chevruta #hevruta #shiningline #happiness

So friggin psyched for a digital copy of the @drea

So friggin psyched for a digital copy of the @dreamingtheworldtocome 5783 planner from @rebekaherevstudio @nomyteaches and others. I asked and was swiftly answered.

#digitalplanner #jewishplanner #planner #ipadpro #digitalnotes #calendar #planner2023 #planner5783 #jewishplanning #bujo #jewbujo #bulletjournal

♥️ Mid-Elul feels fuzzy brained and addled by

♥️ Mid-Elul feels fuzzy brained and addled by retrogrades and full moons, and yet I still feel imperfectly present in it. Still loving the emails from @jewishstudioproject, still wandering through back episodes of Elul Inbound from @judaismunbound, still remembering to blow my shofar on most days and visit Psalm 27. Rosh Hashanah and the high holidays in general feel like less of a jump scare of last minute awareness.

My Shiviti collage from @labshul’s Friday event.

My Shiviti collage from @labshul’s Friday event. ♥️ Shavua tov!

As I pondered these questions from the past couple

As I pondered these questions from the past couple days of prompts from @jewishstudioproject, I stared at the joints in this plant/“weed” thriving in my yard and imagine this plant started off small, with few of those joints, few blossoms, and it’s grew and built on its resources and expanded to support more blossoms. Maybe the fear I can set aside is that those I want nearness from don’t need that same nearness from me, that we’re not all depending on the same soil and root system. “Weeds” don’t worry about whether they’re needed and thrive through reaching for what they need unapologetically. I will imagine during a restful Shabbat all the ways that I can strive to be weedier. #elul #elul5782 #elul2022

There’s diagram of what the shofar blasts mean t

There’s diagram of what the shofar blasts mean to me that’s still brewing due to how complex it feels to build as a visual, and now it’s even MORE beautifully complex after great conversation this afternoon in @judaismunbound’s 2nd weekly #Elul zoom call. What a friggin’ awesome way to move these last few hours closer to Shabbat.

My ocular efforts have escalated. #eyebomb #eyebom

My ocular efforts have escalated. #eyebomb #eyebombohio

First week of my first UnYeshiva course with @juda

First week of my first UnYeshiva course with @judaismunbound, led by Joy Ladin and Jill Hammer. Wow.

Imagining if we lived this way. Loved soaking in p

Imagining if we lived this way. Loved soaking in parsha study tonight with @torahstudio and my awesome sauce friend and chevruta partner @leia__miriam. I let these two lines shine on me as I listened.

I blew my shofar today at this tree at the park an

I blew my shofar today at this tree at the park and then put googly eyes on it (this is a not so secret hobby of mine). I like the idea of the world looking back as us, wide awake and asking us to join in that alertness, watching and waiting. Putting eyes in unexpected places feels a bit like an art version of a shofar blast. “Hey! I’m the world looking back at you! Wake UP!” Also, they’re just very silly and I love them. ♥️🌳

🌱 My brain is full. Forgot to post my 10th day

🌱 My brain is full. Forgot to post my 10th day doodle yesterday so here it is. The plant is a pothos I inherited from my grandmother when she died last year, which had me pondering conversations about the play on Elul as “a lull” and the sacred stillness of loss, of recalibrating through showing up for whatever feeling a new emptiness brings into us.

♥️ This is the dogwood that grows out of our b

♥️ This is the dogwood that grows out of our back deck and sometimes when I’m blowing the shofar I imagine this tree standing with me in that moment. Pondering many angles of repair/atonement/“at-one-ment” after listening to @judaismunbound’s 4th mini episode. Loved the nuance included in such a great conversation about atonement, apology, and forgiveness. Thinking about all of those things as effort to return to a collective state, a oneness that harm pulls us away from, whether we created or experienced the harm. Appreciated permission from @wendielash to sometimes find myself in a place of wanting to apologize or forgive but not being ready or not being sure if those actions are the next right actions.

Yesterday I found a shofar in the candle smoke. Ca

Yesterday I found a shofar in the candle smoke. Can you see it? Inspired by Jordan’s day 8 musings in the @jewishstudioproject prompts.

#elul #elul5782 #elul2022 #jewishart #jewish #digitalnotes #artnotes #jewishjournaling

The things that have landed and stuck so far for E

The things that have landed and stuck so far for Elul. Where are you finding inspiration or sources for reflection? ♥️

The urge to put “Chrissy,” at the beginning of

The urge to put “Chrissy,” at the beginning of this quote was intense. For some reason the shofar felt like the loudest Elul thing about the day leading up to Shabbat.

Some of the best weeks are just too hard to encaps

Some of the best weeks are just too hard to encapsulate in the visual notes. A lot of this week’s parsha study with @torahstudio will live in that space and in me rather than on this digital page. I could not stop myself from a horse joke and I make no apology regarding this matter.

I have some ideas about how I will know. ♥️ Lo

I have some ideas about how I will know. ♥️ Love these prompts, @jewishstudioproject.

Morning gave good light today. ♥️🌳

Morning gave good light today. ♥️🌳

The hostas in my front yard are blooming. I took a

The hostas in my front yard are blooming. I took a moment to notice while waiting for the kiddo’s morning bus. The quote is from today’s Elul email from @jewishstudioproject.

This was one of my favorite nuggets from all of to

This was one of my favorite nuggets from all of today’s Elul musings. Trying not to overcomplicate Elul, just taking a picture from wherever I am in an aha! moment and saving one small snippet, maybe every day but also maybe not. ♥️

I’m so glad we circled back (because Elul) to th

I’m so glad we circled back (because Elul) to this psalm in tehillim class with @a.r.k.ofthecovenant at @torahstudio, because studying with my favorite folks brought forward an emotional expansion of this text beyond the already very personal meaning some of the lines had for me last time. I am only slightly aghast to have gotten choked up in my group share, which reaaaaally speaks to the safety and beautiful witnessing experienced in the space that Lexi creates. Y’all are missing out if you’re sleeping on tehillim class. It’s an amazing addition to any Monday. ♥️

Early in the process of reading This Is Real and Y

Early in the process of reading This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared for Elul and met this caterpillar yesterday and was imagining Elul as the slow metamorphosis and awakening toward emergence that happens in a cocoon. Listening to @judaismunbound’s mini podcast for today while working on Elul 2 musings. Shavua tov. ♥️🐛

I love the way @torahstudio pretzels and thankful

I love the way @torahstudio pretzels and thankful a great chevruta partner in Katja this week! This year’s wandering through this parsha allowed me reflection on the *way* that we as Jews hold these texts and turn them and wrestle with them and have not just permission but *responsibility* to do so. ♥️ !שבת שלום

Psalm 38 held a lot of complexity for me during ch

Psalm 38 held a lot of complexity for me during chevruta yesterday evening, and I love the way it can be turned this way and that to examine who I am within the context of harm (created by me or experienced by me), how repair is impacted by all involved, and how sometimes pause and surrender through calling out to the source of all things is a way to re-center or a way to avoid our needed role in repair. This psalm feels like a gevurah-flavored puzzle that can be used in a way that feels like meaningful self assessment, and those are some of my favorite psalms so far, also great for Elul energy. I love this one and it’s many possible meanings. Thanks to @a.r.k.ofthecovenant for an amazing class at @torahstudio, as ALWAYS. ♥️

Psalm 37 with one of my favorite chevruta partners

Psalm 37 with one of my favorite chevruta partners, @a.r.k.ofthecovenant’s awesome dad, Ron. We wrestled well, I think, and group discussion gave me good layers to add. Ultimately this won’t be a favorite psalm of mine, but I found lines to love.

#tehillim #psalms #psalm37 #chevruta #jewishnotes #jewish #jewishart #doodlenotes #artnotes #sketchnotes #digitalnotes

I’ve got a chevruta high tonight from Torah stud

I’ve got a chevruta high tonight from Torah study due to a awesome new partner I’d never studied with before, really helpful hot takes in group time, and one of Liana’s epic wrap ups. I hope my hot take on the JPS is able to be taken with the lightheartedness with which it was said in the moment. I love it, but also value reading other flavors (even translations I struggle with).

#torahstudy #parshastudy #chevruta #parshatvaetchanan #shema #shma #torah #jewish #jewishnotes #digitalnotes #doodlenotes #artnotes #jewishart

Thank you to @labshul for creating such thoughtful

Thank you to @labshul for creating such thoughtful and beautiful space today. ♥️🕯 #tishabav

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