b121 (12.9-1.2024): death & taxes

death & taxes [i]
by grim reaper

death & taxes: certain
death & taxes, time
death & taxes (in the end, they were a friend of mine)
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·       death/mortality, after all, gives life meaning.

·       death’s possibility can act as motivation, can influence behavior modification, and (if we live each day as if it were our last) can breathe life to our present moments.
 
taxes, of course, have provided me with things like roads and parks and water-ways… not to mention the social security benefit that will begin in a few short weeks.  

the passing/death of significant others serves as a re-mind-er, 

and, if we allow it to, 

             loss can be reframed as gratitude.                

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[i] martino, j. (12.9-1.2024). death & taxes. book 121: opportunity (on deck). © 2024 by j. martino.