GREAT READS → SIDEKICK Issue 901 · March 2, 2022

The Sound of Music

I’m the only woman I know who even owns noise-canceling headphones. I got them as a gift. From my husband, of course

The Sound of Music

Actually, I’m the only woman I know who even owns noise-canceling headphones. I got them as a gift. From my husband, of course.

He has a gift too. He was born with it — the gift of music.

I don’t exactly remember if I knew about this when we were dating. If I did, I probably thought, oh, wow, so nice, with a vague vision of 12 sons and daughters sitting around the Shabbos table and singing zemiros in harmony from leather embossed bentshers, while I gracefully carry in a tray of steaming golden soup. In the vision, I’m wearing an elegant Shabbos robe, my sheitel, and pearls. I’m not wearing noise-canceling headphones.

My children inherited my husband’s gift. We now own a professional-grade keyboard, two flutes, an acoustic guitar, a child-size acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, an acoustic drum set, and an electric drum set. We have more musical instruments than kids.

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