Home Again, Home Again

Goodness, I have been away for most of the last two months; now that I am back home in Switzerland, my summer resolution is to post things more regularly.

Each time that I go back to America, ideas seem to percolate. I am going to start grouping little moments that have caught my eye under ‘Pause to Wonder’, which comes from something Albert Einstein had written regarding “the mysterious”. He wrote that “He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead – his eyes are closed.” Well my eyes are open always to the wonders around me, be they as small as the charming coffee served to me in the Beyer watch store on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich or as large as the majestic mountains which surround the Swiss landscape. Albert Einstein became a Swiss citizen when he was 22; I became a Swiss citizen upon my marriage to a Swiss when I was 25. It is a country that I love and it is full of wonders.