AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: Trying to bring good karma back into a home on the edge of foreclosure
Every morning at 6 a.m., Brenda Duchemin and John Ashraf kneel down in front of a carved teak shrine in their Diamond Bar home and chant.
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In front of a cluster of oranges, a small teacup and a golden lotus flower on the shrine, the slight 53-year old tries to expel the negative images: the two homes she and her husband lost to auction last month, the bankruptcy they were forced to file in 2009, and their ongoing battle to stay in their spacious and airy home, which is furnished with soft blankets, leather couches and Elvis plates on the walls.
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