Majicman Notes

You know those monkey bars?” she asks. “I had a friend at drama school who described happiness. They said that in the process of letting go of one hand, you swing to grab another, and… Read more

Please take off your shoes and socks, I’m going to show you the proper way to put them back on. If there are wrinkles in your socks or your shoes aren’t tied properly, you will… Read more

Secret to creating hit records (or making anything great): “If you need 10 of something, make 30. Then pick the best.” Rick Rubin Record producer Read more

“That first morning, when you are in your country of choice, away from all of the conventions of atypical, everyday lifestyle, looking around at your totally new surroundings, hearing strange languages, smelling strange, new smells,… Read more

“The notion around the misogi is you do something so hard one time a year that it has an impact the other 364 days of the year. Put one big thing on the calendar that… Read more

A healthy mind knows how to hope; it identifies and then hangs on tenaciously to a few reasons to keep going. Grounds for despair, anger, and sadness are, of course, all around. But the healthy… Read more

To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its… Read more

In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale Read more

I want to de­scribe the spe­cial qual­ity of his friend­ship. He took the most se­ri­ous and ac­tive in­ter­est in the lives of those within his ken. It takes time to do what he did, to… Read more

So here’s something I know to be true, although it’s a little corny, and I don’t quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.  Those moments… Read more