Homage to my birth land

As the countdown to my birthday begins, I felt called to pay homage to the land that welcomed me earth-side when I was born: Switzerland.
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An early December morning, as the sun was rising, I took my first inhale infused by the crisp mountain air. ⁣
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Outside the window laid a landscape of snowed alps rising like cathedrals, with water laying at their feet. ⁣
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I’m forever grateful that during my first 5 years this land cradled and nourished me with such magnificence. ⁣
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Experiencing that beauty stirs the heart in such a way that one can hardly help aspiring to be a poet, artist or musician as an attempt to somehow capture it.⁣
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They say the place you are conceived/born in lays a blueprint you carry for the rest of your life. ⁣
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Whether that is true or not, I’m grateful to always carry within me a landscape I can return to in reverence to fill myself with indescribable awe and wonder.