It couldn’t be —— is the media actually publishing, something, anything about a housing recovery.  But why………. perhaps with gas prices at over 4 1/2 dollars a gallon, food costs skyrocketing, consumer confidence at a 28 year low, war, earthquakes, floods they have shared enough bad news with us and want to tantalize us and raise our spirits just a bit.

 On a local level our numbers stack up as follows:

Home sales surge in April. And, for the first time since September 2005, home sales were up year-over-year: 51.7%. view statistics by city: Carmel, Carmel Valley, Montery, Marina, Pebble Beach, etc.

Thursday, May 15 approx. 3:30 p.m. a one day before her birthday……… a beautiful lady and mentor left this place to meet her maker.  Arliene Beesley was a colleague, friend, WCR past president, MCAR past president, wife, mom, grandmother and so much more.

 What do we do when we loose someone “before their time”, what sense can one make of it.

The lesson I choose to take from Arliene is that she always smiled, always asked about your family and looked at the positive in every situation.  I never heard Arliene say an unplesant thing about anyone and she had faith in every situation and every person she came ito contact with.  Oh, if only I was half so optimistic. 

 It is still a shock………………… goodbye sweet lady, may your faith and kindness live on in all of us who were touched by you.