Travel Log

Norbulingka, The Jewelled Park, served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until the Chinese takeover in the 1950s.

When wintry winds are no more heard, And joy's in every bosom, When summer sings in every bird, And shines in every blossom, When happy twilight hours are long, Come home, my love, and think no wrong! When berries gleam above the stream And half the fields are yellow, Come back to me, my joyous dream, The world hath not thy fellow! And I will make thee Queen among The Queens of summer and of song. - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

The Ghost City

Southbank

The most excellent virtue is the brilliant and calm flow of culture. Those with fine minds play in a clear lotus lake. Through this excellent path, a song line sweet like the pollen’s honey, May they sip the fragrant dew of glorious knowledge. ----- H.H. The l7th Karmapa

More and more, the creative class is becoming post-geographic. Location-independent. Office-agnostic. Demographers and futurists call this trend the rise of "the distributed workforce." Distributed workers are those who have no permanent office at their companies, preferring to work in home offices, cafes, airport lounges, high school stadium bleachers, client conference rooms, or some combination of what Florida calls the "no-collar workplace." www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_50/b3963137.htm

Yves St Laurent's garden in Marrakech ... cobalt blue ... light and shade ... strong forms ...