The House Of My Dreams
“Real winners are ordinary people with extraordinary determination” – Anonymous
Born into a swimming family near the smell of the sea in San Diego, California, rich in life and experiences; we were poor in money and things. As the eldest daughter of 4 children, we grew up on the dreams of the movies as my mother swam in two Esther Williams’ films as one of the ‘aqua maids’ at the tender ages of 16 and 19.
Her stories of school with Elizabeth Taylor, lunches with Jimmy Durante and Frank Sinatra, poolside chats with Kate Hepburn, while my grandmother rubbed shoulders with Clark Gable, and met with Red Skelton, and her later stories of traveling Europe with Buster Crabbe’s famed Aqua Parade filled us with hopes that we too could someday live our dreams.
Besides my dream of writing and being a best-selling published author, my dream was to design and build my own home. As a young spiritual mother, I’d received a “prophecy” from some spiritual friends in the form of the words Mansa Neo, when translated means new house and lands of one who ministers.
I believed those words – and thought for sure that I would see the manifestation soon. At the tender age of 23 little did I know that I had more to learn!
Through a series of events and experiences where I learned about creating your own reality, the shadow self and the backside of the law of attraction through the next 19 years, by the time I reached 42, I still didn’t have my dream home and in fact, had moved back in with my mother feeling as if I were a failure.
Long used to the principles of the law of attraction and creating my own reality, I realized that maybe I’d held onto my dream of designing and building my own home for the wrong reasons. I gave it back to the Universe. When I did – I gave it up for good.
After two failed marriages and some brutal traumatic experiences (which I know I am the author of) I finally realized I had the control and decided to be happy and create a new life. I decided to love myself first and draw my soul-mate to me. I knew enough by now to know what I didn’t want so I created a list of the attributes I desired of my soul mate and sent it off to the Universe on a wing and prayer and promptly forgot about it.
A few short months later while visiting my old and dear friend Timothy, a phone call came through from another old friend, Gordon. One thing led to another and after several visits and a few sailing adventures Gordon and I decided to move in together. I moved up to the Bay Area of Northern California and within two years we were married – he the soul-mate I’d called up from the Universe with a 93% accuracy rating of the qualities on my list and I his. He had done the same thing I had in sending his request to the Universe – only he voiced his request at about the same time I wrote mine.
Just two short years after that, we moved onto our new lands where we began the process of building (though my husband did most of the building as I still worked a 40-hr a week job) the new house of my dreams. The house I designed.
By the laws of the mundane world, we were sure to fail. We heard stories of people who divorced, went bankrupt and never finished their building. (And these were people who hired contractors to do everything!).
The journey of its creation is a law of attraction story itself as neither my husband nor I had any previous construction experience. We built it ourselves – with sub-contractors providing only the engineering, grading, foundation, trusses, sheetrock and carpet. We did everything else. Everything else.
We ignored all the dire warnings from well-intentioned friends; created our budgets, got our financing and were sure we were set to go. Being naïve, trusting the Universe and working on faith alone can have many blessings. We didn’t know then how big the house really was, how severely under funded we truly were and how the simple laws of physics were against us.
It took us three years to complete – is three stories tall – is engineered just this side of a commercial building and is worth well over a $1 million dollars as it sits on 10 acres in the Sierra Nevada just a red-tailed hawk’s flight from Lake Tahoe.
It is surrounded by decks on all sides, has a 180 degree clear view of eastern starlit and sunrise skies; a national forest mountain ridge that runs east to west on our south; hills and ridges topped with fragrant cedars, tall pines and towering oaks met by gold and green meadows visited by hawks, deer and wild turkeys with Canadian geese, herons, wild ducks and turtles swimming in our seasonal steam and pond.
We celebrated my 50th birthday in our new home created with the flow of the Universe. She is named Wildwind after the winds and wildflower breezes that blow through our little piece of heaven.
As I walk through her rooms, I feel the blessings of true abundance and prosperity and know that I am rich beyond my wildest dreams. Our house feels alive with the energy of our imaginings and in it I know anything that I can dream of is possible because we’ve already done the impossible.
Each board, each nail, each wall is built with the love of my husband and anyone with the least of sensitivities can feel it as they meander through her beautiful and many rooms.
He told me once that the only reason he agreed to build it (besides the challenge) was because he wanted to fulfill my dream.
He wanted me to know that there are good men in the world.
He wanted me to know how much he loved me.
I used to think that I had to win the lottery or have a best-selling book to have a home like Wildwind. (What does that say about the book?)
Now I know that the Universe and the law of attraction can work in very mysterious ways if we are open to receive. Sometimes going forward, means taking a few steps back.
Wildwind is my dreaming ground; she is woven from our love, our dreams and is our springboard into all of our new adventures.
©2007 by Laurie Brenner
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About the Author: Laurie Brenner, formerly editor of California’s Oldest Continuously Published Weekly, The Mariposa Gazette and Miner, and author of The Little Book of Becoming – Understanding the Law of Attraction now writes for the sheer joy of it and her ezine The View From The Western Slope where she shares true life stories and insights into the law of attraction, the art of becoming, being happy now and stories of her own experiences living in the Sierra Nevada. Visit http://www.wildwindenterprises.com where you can read the story of how she and her husband built the house of their dreams using the law of attraction!
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