Living in the Between

I want to wake up and walk out my door to a coffee shop on the corner. I want to drop off my dry cleaning on my way to the subway or tube stop. I want to have a book store and a movie theater in my neighborhood. I want to sit in a local bar and have a glass of wine and write in my journal. I want to know the bartender's name and have a bowl of mussels with butter and herbs in broth. I want to wear black and high heels and fake pearls.

On the other hand, I want to own a farm in Kentucky, grow limestone lettuce, adopt a dog and let him run and hunt, listen to rain on a tin roof, raise chickens, drive a pickup truck, sit on the porch at the end of the day and sleep like a baby in a four poster bed that belonged to my grandmother.

Except those two sides of myself will never be fully reconciled, so I live in the between-spaces.
Nikki Hardin, publisher of skirt! Magazine

It was so difficult to choose this small sampling from the more than 1,500 images I snapped on our recent visit to Switzerland. Switzerland is such an amazing country: it's the perfect blend of traditional convention + modern advancement, snow-iced mountains + sun-dappled meadows, glamorous city + carefree country. Even more amazing is our incredibly loved family who are lucky to call this place home. We laughed so hard we cried, we cried a little - enough to make us laugh, and then we had to hug goodbye.

We miss you already.