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How Moving and a Little Feng Shui Can Save a Marriage
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10879 |
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LIFE
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7 / 1986 |
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Stanton Delaplane
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"Feng shui?" a visiting lady said, "I had some just yesterday. At that darling little sun restaurant in Chinatown."
"You're out of your mind," her husband said. "Feng Shui is the best prizefighter in Asia. A middleweight. From Macau."
They were both wrong. But well get to that.
We are moving. A daffy thing to do, putting pressure on body, mind, and pocketbook.
Why? "I can't live with one bedroom another day!" the X-word woman shouted across the coffee table.
I admit it is getting chokey, what with only one closet. But there are two bathrooms. And the best bay view in San Francisco.
We are all going mad. House hunting is like hammering yourself over the head each day. We viewed apartments. "It's just right but it has too many stairs."
"It's all right. But the price! That's outrageous."
"Too far out. Too noisy. It's right on the commuter traffic route. I didn't like the looks of that landlady."
And so on and so on.
Fortunately, somebody in our building moved out, opening a three-bedroom apartment. I plan to do a magazine piece on it: "How I saved the Marriage."
Moving sets off a powerful and pleasant perfume for women. They begin descending on the house with advice. They come in packs, and they are salivating to help fix up the new scatter. Pavlov's decorators.
"I think all you really need in that room is a trundle bed, dear," they say. "You can put a lamp in the corner."
They say, "I saw just what you need at that Danish furniture place downtown."
They say, "Of course, you'll have to change all the lighting. But it'll be worth it in the long run."
I paid no attention. I had a friend cable Hong Kong: "Please advise name of best fung shui man in California."
Feng shui is the art of arranging your home or business in a way that brings harmony and prosperity.
Your desk should face a bank, even if you have the best bay view in town. Look at the money, see? That's good feng shui.
A feng shui expert is a geomancer with a mystic overlay. He uses a little common sense. A little magic. Feng shui means "wind and water."
Feng shui experts are engineers of psychic influences, and the engine used is a special Chinese
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