drawings of Nepal

 Last Dal Baht, last and best, at Ngima's house, in the valley.

Frequency, she argues, helps facilitate what Arthur Koestler has famously termed “bisociation” — the crucial ability to link the seemingly unlinkable, which is the defining characteristic of the creative mind. Rubin writes:
You’re much more likely to spot surprising relationships and to see fresh connections among ideas, if your mind is constantly humming with issues related to your work. When I’m deep in a project, everything I experience seems to relate to it in a way that’s absolutely exhilarating. The entire world becomes more interesting. That’s critical, because I have a voracious need for material, and as I become hyperaware of potential fodder, ideas pour in. By contrast, working sporadically makes it hard to keep your focus. It’s easy to become blocked, confused, or distracted, or to forget what you were aiming to accomplish. (from Brainpickings.com)

 drawings inside the monastery at Tengbouche,
the hand of Buddha

and drawings of the ever changing mountain

 and drawings from life inside the tent

and the tent, the beloved yellow tent, once high in the mountain, now back on my porch, after taking a bath.