• Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 25 2025 | Lilies on a flower field

    Highlights

    This week combined two highlights, Art Basel and the summer solstice. And all accompanied by perfect summer weather.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 24 2025 | Summer landscape in Germany

    Little life happiness

    The small pleasures of everyday life add up like flowers on a bush to form an exuberant, blossoming whole.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 23 2025 | Reinacher Heide

    Gray to Green

    A gray and wet week in which nature once again set the tone.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 22 2025 | Balcony blossoms

    The gift of being alife

    Happiness can also be found in the very inconspicuous days that otherwise leave hardly any memories.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 21 2025 | Swiss Jura Landscape

    Immersing myself in nature

    Although I spend the majority of my days at my desk, it’s always the trips into nature that end up being the memories of the week.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 20 2025 | Lightning Symphony by Claudia Comte

    The rainbow week

    This week was all about the Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Basel this year.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 19 2025 | White blossomes

    Fragrance frenzy

    In addition to all the colors and shapes that spring growth produces, it is also the scents of the flowers that can trigger moments of happiness in you.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 18 2025 | Purple flowers on a summer day

    A few days of summer

    Suddenly they were here: days with a sky as deep and blue as you rarely get to see. The perfect introduction to the month of May.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 16 2025 | Lake Lucerne

    The best at first

    Sometimes you have to ignore the rules you normally use to structure your existence in order to bring a breath of fresh air into your everyday life.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 15 2025 | View over Jura hills to the Alps

    Friendships

    Although I no longer have fixed working days, some weeks my whole life is focused on the weekend.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 14 2025 | Spring landscape in Ajoie

    Chlorophyll and spring premieres

    Spring is coming little by little. This week marked another highlight in this process with the first trees turning green again.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 13 2025 | St. Alban

    A painful experience

    You realize how well you’re doing when your health takes a hit. I have had to make this experience in the last few days.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 12 2025 | Blossoms at Novartis Campus

    Changes

    The week was characterized by goodbyes, by new and lost lives and by spring that has definitely arrived.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 11 2025 | A Waggis at Fasnacht

    Three beautiful days

    After a few years without, this year I once again enjoyed the Basel carnival, a spectacle that brought color and joy to an otherwise rather dull week.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 10 2025 | Spring sunset between two tower blocks

    The time of spring flowers

    The 10th week of the year brought the colors back into everyday life and trumped with sunny spring weather.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 09 2025 | View over Bern to the Alps

    Variety

    It doesn’t take much to make life more exciting. Breaking habits and patterns doesn’t need much time or energy, but in return it creates new impressions that remain in your memory.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 08 2025 | View on Kleinbasel

    Maintenance mode

    So many things that need to be done are piling up right now and the week has been accordingly filled with commitments.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 07 2025 | Three pigeons flying across the Rhine river

    The promise of spring

    The first few days back in Switzerland have been a potpourri of sleepless nights, busy days and a hint of spring in the air.

  • Matthias Maier | Stories | Week 06 2025 | Sheep Meadow in Central Park

    Renaissance

    From monotonous gray back to a colorful and varied week, thanks to some activities I tackled.

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