Healing in many forms

Triumph over Adversity was the name of the Virginia Business Magazine article in which I was named “Virginia Success Story” in 2006.  Just two years later we were forced to shut down all seven stores when Wachovia retroactively called our notes in default. We were current in April when they called them, and we began an orderly liquidation of two stores.  Wachovia wanted out quicker than we were able to liquidate, and four days before they had to report their own enormous losses, they seized our inventory under a “collateral inspection.”  My home was placed in foreclosure within 30 days by the bankers looking for quick cash and someone to blame for their own mistakes. My wife and six children were thus forced out of our home of 16 years, and moved to the country, the 4th poorest county in the US, I’m told.  Healing takes many forms.  As I was driving through the country, seeing the cotton fields set against the bright reds and oranges of the maples, and a golden eagle flying over head, I saw a beauty I would have missed just a few years ago.  My creative juices have been released as I have been learning to build jewelry on a computer (take a look at my new web site: www.davidnygaardfinejewelers.com) and can take the design where ever I want, freedom I never experienced with the 7 stores.  The song which grabbed me on the drive was by Michael Card: “It is amazing the freedom we find from the things we leave behind.”