DAVOS, Switzerland—Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan who is in Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum met on Tuesday with Apple CEO Tim Cook.

The news of the meeting with Cook was reported by Pashinyan’s chief advisor Arsen Gasparyan who reported about it on his Facebook page, exclaiming, “What a great start at the World Economic Forum in Davos, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting…”

Pashinyan also met with leaders of Mitsubishi, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and eBay on the sidelines of the Davos summit.

While meeting with Mitsubishi board member Christina Ahmadjian, Pashinyan said that the Armenian government wanted to turn the political revolution in the country into an economic one, adding that real changes were expected in Armenia to achieve that goal.

Pashinyan stressed that Armenia has a hugeMonday, February 25, 2013

We celebrated my mother's 90th birthday with a party at our church a couple of weeks ago. After each of her seven children had participated in a program to honor her, she thanked everyone and led us in singing this song that she wrote about her own mother. So this week I'd like to share her song as our Poem to Start the Week. I think it's a good song. I would like to record it one of these days.

A Ballad for My Motherwritten by Ruth Baird Shaw in 1983

to honor her mother, Ieula Ann Dick Baird.

Author's Note: My mother lived to be nearly 89 years old and she had a philosophy of life as a Christian, not to worry about things that "could not