Strands Beach only a few minutes away!
Some would say "you should have your heads examined" with an unplanned move two hours south of your present home. The actual plan came out of the day of my Father's funeral when family looked at us and said you need to be down here with us. It didn't take an act of Congress to emotionally connect with that statement. Finances were thrown to the wind and we scurried around an almost impossible schedule to reach our immediate goals. But what were they?
We left our present office, found a sweet vintage refurbished one level building with vintage gates and shady trees in the heart of a simple Hispanic neighborhood, not far from our beloved office in the early nineties. Without the high rent. Impossibly cheap and saddled with a gem of an owner. This came not too suddenly but in Divine timing. We made it work and our patients complied with ease.
The next phase was short selling our home. What else could we do with everyone else on the block going in that direction? Many homes sat, but as God would have it, a perfect realtor who I found through mere intuition from looking at her picture and then finding a friend in this woman. She was the conduit for luring in a buyer in record time. We boxed, we stressed in between driving weekly to the south coast looking frantically for a residence. My sis connected us with her dear friend who is now, you guessed it, a dear friend. It did not come as quickly as we expected, four months of grueling searches preceded our find. The funny thing was that we looked at property all around the very spot we were to rest. We asked that God go before us and in that Divine Order it came upon us in such a generous way. Everything on our wish list was granted and we are endowed with a good relationship with the owner who is also a health professional.
We moved on July 6 2011 with a moving team sent to us straight from the highest heaven. Surely life will follow in a straight path from that day on! It took many weeks to unpack, even with the help of my sisters and family. Each day we ended it with a glass of wine, good food and a view unsurpassed of the ocean in the distance.
Our trade off for accepting this dreambag was traveling up to L.A. twice a month to maintain our patients schedules. Smiles and adjustments went hand in hand. Our patients were happily content and never missed appointments.
Phase four is now finding office space in our new neighborhood. More to comment on that.
We are back to gardening and soaking up some good sun and having a normal life, thank you God, with our family.
