Friday, May 22, 2026

A little bit of Zen (95)

A beautiful colour photograph of an empty railway track, running through a grassy prairie, disappearing towards a range of mountains on the horizon


"Roads are made for journeys, not destinations."


Kong Qiu ('Confucius')



"Money's just something you throw off the the back of a train..."


Tom Waits - 'Long Way Home'


Money, after all, is just a crystallization of effort, a convenient medium for translating effort into different material benefits. But money, like effort, like all manifestations of the material world, is ephemeral: we use it, and it is gone forever. Nothing lasts; but the true value of a thing arises precisely from the fact that it can only be experienced for a fixed amount of time. The value of an FPL season is not found in the numbers recorded against your name at the end of it, but in the memories of all the doubts and struggles and difficult decisions grappled with over the past nine months.


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A little bit of Zen (95)

"Roads are made for journeys, not destinations." Kong Qiu ('Confucius') "Money's just something you throw off th...