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We really appreciate you. Keep the music and the love flowing.
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As we work and achieve, we pile up titles and money. We accumulate assets and influence. We build a life, as they say. And a life is made up of things: Our job. Our house. Our car. Our relationships. Our reputation.
Looking around at what we possess, what we’ve poured so much sweat and blood into, is an immensely rewarding experience. As Margaret Atwood writes in a beautiful poem,
The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,
But the Stoic knows that we never really own anything. All that we possess in this life, Marcus Aurelius says, even life itself, is really ours only in trust. We are renters. Our lives are here on loan…loans that can get called in at any time. We can be fired. Someone can dislodge our seemingly dominant market position. A loved one can leave. People die.
That’s why Margaret Atwood warns against the pride and satisfaction of surveying one’s possessions. The moment you do that, she says, nature rebels. Almost out of spite, they feel the need to rebuke you for your pride.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.
None of us own anything. Everything is constantly in flux. What we have today may be gone tomorrow—we ourselves may be gone tomorrow. Understand that. Appreciate everything accordingly. Be grateful and humble…or life will rebuke you. Fate will remind you who is in charge and nature will reclaim what is hers.
- The Daily Stoic
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Everything that surrounds you is temporary, only the love in your heart will last forever.
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Hope it dries the mouth
The enemy clear
The trees pulled out
And the song
That's still within
Flattens the void that Moi began
Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
It's going to overrun this town
As soon as the moon goes to nothing
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
They're always going to run you down
It's better to face my something
So the roots were long
Each flower a claw that reminds the man
And love still kept you there
The memory earthed for us to share
You laid the land
Laid bare
So, all I do is stare and
Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
It's going to overrun this town
It follows you everywhere
They're always going to run you down
It's better to face my something
It's better to face my something
You're their fort standing
Nothing can shake your walls
One will that's worth so many
The leopard at their throats
You're their fort standing
Nothing can shake your walls
One will that's worth so many
The leopard at their throats
You're their fort standing
You're their fort standing
You're their fort standing
You're their fort standing
Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
It's going to overrun this town
As soon as the moon goes to nothing
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait
They're always going to run you down
It's better to face my something
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Thank you for checking out our annual TJF Music Club. By joining the club you will get Backstage access to lots of exclusive music, online shows and livestreams with your support going directly to the artist. Here's some of the offerings that you can expect from the… Read MoreTJF Music Club - Annual Plan