Gathering tzitzit

Hey all,

I'm curious about people's experience of gathering each others' tzitzit before we say the Sh'ma. I'm personally finding it a little bit touchy-feely and somewhat distracting at a moment when I really want to be very focused on the sounds and words and ideas. I'm feeling enough connection and community in the group without holding my neighbor's fringes, but I wonder if I'm just being a grumpy curmudgeon or if others feel similarly?

Hope no one gets mad at me for raising this...

Hannah

March Feedback?

Hi all-
I'm interested in some specific feedback from the March 10 service.
I'm wondering whether the Modah Ani musical meditation "worked" as such... with the mandolin and all... it was an experiment, and it's a little hard for me to know what it was like from the participants' point of view. Please be candid... my feelings will not be hurt if you didn't like it. Just trying to learn from the experience and inform future experiments...

thanks, Otter
ps-- any other specific comments about something that really did or really didn't "work" for you are also always helpful.