For some reason, I’m on the email distribution list of “For the Love of Old Houses,” and one thing that this has confirmed for me is the old adage: “The three most important ingredients in evaluating real estate are location, location, and location.”
The house pictured above was built in 1919 near the ocean in Carmel, CA, about 100 miles south of San Francisco. It’s on the market for $7.995 million. Now, consider picking this up, moving it almost anywhere else in the United States, and trying to get even half of that.
Conservatives like to say he bloom is off the rose for California and other “woke” parts of the country. Tell that to investors in Chevron, Hewlett-Packard, Well Fargo, Apple, Disney, Intel, Google, Northop Grumman, and Oracle. These companies are a big part of the reason that, if it were a country, California would be the fourth largest economy on Earth.
It’s true that California is often the locus of innovations that make our lives longer and healthier, not to mention more productive and convenient. And perhaps that’ve given us a reputation for being progressive. Ya know what? We’re actually proud of that.
Have you ever wondered why our bodies are in a particular shape, or why they have any shape at all, rather than resembling a bag of jelly?
I just the man met who, working in a research lab in Finland, discovered the “extracellular matrix,” a collection of proteins and carbohydrates to which all healthy cells must bind in order to stay alive, which provides the body’s structure.
This has relevance to cancer research, because those cells do not have to adhere to the matrix, which is why they move around inside the body, and ultimately metastasize, landing somewhere and divide rapidly.
I asked him if he is religious, i.e., if thought God created the extracellular matrix. He immediately replied no.
Here’s a short but extremely well-made video in which Steven Miller discusses the physical appearance of “violent, antifa demonstrators.”
The other day, someone asked me, “If you had to answer this question in only one word, what gives your life meaning?” I replied, “Helping.”
Now, unlike Richard Branson, I’m not a billionaire, so my capacity in this arena is limited. Yet we all, most of us anyway, do what we can.
As Gandhi said, “Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
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