In the beginning, there was the word. So says the beginning of the Gospel according to John. A very interesting point of view. The whole universe, i.e. the creation, came into being in a process at whose beginning there was the mere word of God - nothing more and nothing less. As a scientist, one is sometimes tempted to believe something related: The universe came into being and is governed by the laws of Nature, which are nothing else than words in a certain language, the language of Mathematics. So, at the beginning, there was Mathematics, and from it sprung the cosmos.

Anyway here they go, my words. At least some of them, the ones I think are worth writing up, so that somebody else can read them. I wouldn't call them wisdom, just words. Perhaps, some time, Charlotte reads them. In a poetic sense, Charlotte came into being because, at the beginnig, there was the word "yes" my wife and I said to each other and to the love which connects us.

Today, Charlotte was born. Although we know that a baby is a complete living and feeling and thinking being long before it is born, we still tend to see the moment of birth as the moment where a human being comes into being in the real world. We say, birth is the moment where a human being - for the first time - sees the light of the world.

Light is nothing else than words telling stories from sometimes distand events in the universe, hurtling through space until they touch our eyes and then our brains, where they tell their stories.

Now there is Charlotte, and it appears to me that at the beginning (of a completely new life) there is Charlotte. It seems that the universe has changed. It never will be the same again, as it was, before Charlotte was born.