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There's no time like the present for getting to home.
In the game of baseball, getting to "home" is the goal. Each team tries to score runs by advancing its base runners to reach home safely. Home plate, shaped like a house, is the focal point of every pitch thrown and is involved in many critical plays. But it doesn’t look the same to everyone because each player’s perspective is formed by where he’s standing. The catcher, batter and umpire see the plate as an inverted house from the area of the batter's box. To the two opposing players who want to come home – the pitcher on the mound preparing to throw a ball and the base runner hoping to score from third – it’s right side up. It’s all a matter of perspective.
For most people, "home" means a literal or figurative place of safety, protection and security. Home is where we feel comfortable and loved. Home is where there's freedom from fear – freedom from the feeling that we are powerless to change something and that we're "stuck." Fear is believing that there's no hope. Fear spawns crisis, and many people are living in crisis. Fear has so blinded them that they don't know how to get to "home."
The real crisis isn't foreclosures, banks or the price of oil.
History may best remember the first Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his proclamation in the depths of the Great Depression that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". Fear, he said, was a "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes". He called upon Americans to act as one:
...we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we can not merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made....
As a Real Estate Broker, I see the current crisis in the context of real estate: owners facing foreclosure, businesses struggling and an exploding population of signs advertising properties for sale or for lease. But all of that is the tip of the iceberg. The real crisis is fear and its ripple effects extend far beyond real estate.
Since I firmly believe in making lemonade from lemons, I typically look for ways to create opportunities from challenges. So as I was driving around one day, I asked myself "what is it that people need?" I wasn't prepared for the answer that I got. What people need today is what they needed in 1933. They need hope. But how could I provide that? I began to think that maybe it didn't have anything to do with real estate.
Energy can be used to build and restore.
Energy is all around us – in light, color and in all works of creation. Everything we do, feel and think sends out energy and receives energy in return. Because we're all connected to the same network, the energy each of us generates goes out into this network and impacts others. If energy can destroy hope, then energy can also rebuild it. It's just a matter of how we choose to use energy.
One energy form I've chosen is art because art has the capacity to heal in many different ways and at all different levels. As you explore Getting To Home, you'll see images of some of my art on a wide range of subjects and in a variety of media. The images speak for themselves, and brief descriptions have been provided only to offer some background or context for each work. I've displayed these images with the hope that in some way, they will assist others in getting to home.
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Chadwick
Real Estate • PA
License #RM061216B • 414 W. Main Street 2D • Lansdale,
PA 19446 (USA)
Nancy E. Chadwick, President & Broker • Phone: 215.368.4100 • Email: NChad72084@aol.com |
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