

The simple solution reveals itself after the steep climb up to Cheri Monastery (Chagri Dorjeden): for fifteen years we’ve lived with an unsatisfying overflow solution for rainwater after thunderstorms, and here the very same problem is solved so simply, so logically — and, what’s more, almost meditatively. The quiet trickle of water, spilling from one vessel into the next — this is exactly how we’ll carry this learning from Bhutan home with us, a lasting aha-moment made real.