Being on the boat, when I wasn\u2019t sleeping, I had time to think and to reflect on the shape my life was beginning to take in 2019.\u00a0 This year was the 10th anniversary of Ronald\u2019s death in 2009.\u00a0 Twenty years since we moved into our magical apartment in Thonon-les-Bains overlooking Lac Leman.<\/p>\n
In the previous few years, I\u2019d been spending less and less time there.\u00a0 I\u2019d removed much of my personal possessions and it was listed and functioning as an AirBnB.\u00a0 And with the recent resolution in Stanford, I felt that my visits would become fewer and further in between.<\/p>\n
I realised that the link with Thonon and my attachment was due to my piano, my beloved 1923 Grand Bechstein.\u00a0 My visits revolved around going and playing my piano.\u00a0 As soon as I climb the three flights of stairs and open the front door into the double volume, our love affair is triggered all over again.\u00a0 Lifting the lid, placing the support, and breathing out.\u00a0 Those first few notes always do it for me!<\/p>\n
So, the presence of my piano is in large part the reason for my continued link to Thonon-les-Bains.\u00a0 Each time I considered the increasing difficulty of lack of access parking,\u00a0 climbing three flights with baggage (which with my hernia I\u2019m not supposed to do), I stopped short of seeing myself without the prospect of being greeted by my piano.<\/p>\n
But reflecting on things deeply, I sought clarity.\u00a0 The reality is that there has to be a base in Leysin.\u00a0 The north \u2018node\u2019 of my life requires a presence in Switzerland where the Amani Harmonic Foundation is registered.\u00a0 Although truth be told, problems with parking and carrying baggage up two flights of stairs are also making themselves felt at the Vagabond.<\/p>\n
A couple of days after we arrived back in Leysin, I had a telephonic consultation with Alison Chester-Lambert, a reputed and well-respected astrologer, who\u2019d guided me the year before with very accurate information concerning the delay in the property project in Stanford.\u00a0 Now with this reading, the stars were even more precise.<\/p>\n
I had the reading on 26 April 2019 and learnt that the month of May was a hugely important period for me.\u00a0 I needed to make decisions and take steps in relation to my health and my property.\u00a0 Given the configuration in my charts, if I let things carry on as they were, I could expect the strong energy to manifest in deteriorating conditions in the property and ultimately my own physical situation.\u00a0 This resonated.\u00a0 The need for a major overhaul of the plumbing in the ancient building and the increasing need to call in Monsieur Muffat to fix a host of problems connected to the heating system\u00a0 were some of the signs I was aware of.<\/p>\n
On my first trip down from Leysin to visit my piano and catch up with Christine who manages the apartment as \u2018Lumi\u00e9re du Lac\u2019 on AirBnB, I found her very excited.\u00a0 Of course we\u2019d been discussing things during my previous visits.\u00a0 Now she had found an incredible arrangement.\u00a0 I listened as she bubbled out her creative solution.<\/p>\n
A lovely young woman\u00a0 from Gen\u00e9ve, who had bought a small apartment in the adjoining building for her sculpture studio, had visited the apartment.\u00a0 She was in the process of selling a flat in Paris and wanted to invest the funds in property.\u00a0 She was keen to do this before she and her husband and two small children went off for a two-year contract in Myanmar with the International Red Cross (ICRC).\u00a0 The ICRC had been Ronald\u2019s first professional employment, when at 23 he was sent to Namibia \/Angola and made responsible for dealing with the exchange of prisoners.<\/p>\n
Meeting Sev\u00e9rine, I was reminded of Ronald and I twenty years earlier, earnest and determined to do our bit to improve things in the world.\u00a0 I was very drawn to this young family who also loved the piano.<\/p>\n
The win-win was that there was no rush for me to move my things out, as she\u2019d like the AirBnB to continue with Christine\u2019s management and I could go and stay any time when there was a lull in the bookings \u2013 to play my piano!<\/p>\n
In the first week of May it was decided. \u00a0We set up meetings with notaries and made arrangements for the technical certificates required for the sale.<\/p>\n
I then went off to Bosnia to join Judy Satori for a week, a month before she would be returning to Switzerland for our event.\u00a0 2019 was providing me with another opportunity for closure.<\/p>\n
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