Sentences with phrase «nearing the end of its life already»

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This cuttlefish has already mated and is nearing the end of its life.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

When you buy an older home built with older materials, you run the risk of investing in materials that may already be nearing the end of their shelf lives.

Here are the Show Notes: Currently have 5 rentals and 80k of income and trying to paying off rentals because near retirement Also flips properties where the goal is 20k profit He outsources much of the work Got rentals in 2011 and regret not doing it earlier Got hammered in 2008 Got out of the market in 2000 Interest rates are very low which is different that past times which means a good time to lock in loans, stocks are pretty high Real estate is not for everyone and might have a wrong skill set If you don't want to do the work be a hard money flipper but only make 10 % (you need to have the money) Don't lend to someone doing their first flip Need to hire a virtual assistant — 5 properties can manage by self Let go of politics Marriage advice Begin with the end in mind — He already knows his legacy and just lives it Teaching kids financial principals — mindsets and habits To teach a 12 - year - old — give them money To teach a 30 - year - old — they need to want to fix the money problem Letting go to be happy richersoul.com