My old team-mates gave me a farewell gift that is of big importance to me. It showed our bond and that they know me. 

And it has a meaning!

The gift was a statue of “Kitsune” which means fox in Japanese. My own last name “de Vos” is Dutch for fox.

Kitsune statues in Japanese temples “symbolize good harvests (tea and sake), fertility and prosperity, cunning and smarts, business and money, all in equal measures and all at different turns”.