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One among thousands

Home in FL:   Was originally appraised at $2.6 million pre-construction pending completion.   Currently in foreclosure. Multiple Liens. 97% complete.   Current broker suggested-opinion of value: $1.8 million.   Loss of value: $800,000 – $38,000 (3% of uncompleted hard cost items) = $762,000   TOTAL LOSS (assuming BPO value is accurate): $762,000 [29.3%]    

earthly longing and heavenly vision

Sitting, staring, wondering, on the world busily advancing. Things are happening, mysteriously moving, as if without end. For each one has a longing, desperately - even to loathing, but for what cannot fully be told. Age old fables tell of ten thousand lovers whose love found no resting. In hills, in valleys, in deserts, in forests, pined away as captives in their own prison. Folk tales preserve hunters seeking unspoiled treasures, whose incessant search found unhappy ending. In caves, in seas, in distant lands, in islands, died, a single treasure never to behold. All to common is the story's familiar tone. Instantly recognizable in universal speech, it breaks upon the shadowy rocks of our hearts. I Look, but never will I find. For what I am seeking hides in eternal shadows. I Yearn, but never to be satisfied. For the vestige of which I yearn darkens into heavenly obscurity. I Long, but never will I taste for the object of my longing is known only to the celestial throng. 'Then...